Salix has a new friend. Sciatic nerve pain.
While I can separate myself from the pain on occasion, I struggle with it in regular temporal daily activities such as sitting, driving, and sleeping. While musculo-skeletal pain is an old friend that I've learned to deal with, nerve pain is a new experience.
If you live with chronic nerve pain, how do you do so?
Sorry to hear about your neuropathy. It's far from fun to live with.
I loathe talking about it nowadays, but I'm hoping it can be helpful for your thread, so I'll do it here. I've been living with nerve compressions in both hands since 2011. Specifically, I have cubital tunnel syndrome in both arms, although it's worse in my right (dominant) side. I also probably have carpal tunnel syndrome in my right hand, since I feel pain in my wrist as well.
I live with it by doing my best to avoid putting pressure on the areas of compression: I don't usually carry heavy things, I try to type in an ergonomic position, I don't sleep on my arms, etc. While I sometimes slip up and don't always manage to stick to these precautions, they definitely work well enough to make the pain tolerable.
Before I did my research about these nerve issues, the pain sometimes reached the point of keeping me up at night. Nowadays it's more like a dull annoyance in the background--except for when I mess up badly about following the above precautions or become distressed because of the physical limitations I have to live with.
Good luck with your nerve issue. I hope you can get good care and management for it.