Why hasn't anything worked for me yet?
The pills never knew where it hurt.
They went into your bloodstream and turned down everything, your head included — that fog wasn't bad luck, that's how they work.
The creams only ever cooled the surface.
Menthol tricks the cold sensors on the very top of your skin, so your feet feel cold instead of burning for about twenty minutes — while a quarter inch down, where the burning is actually made, nothing changed at all.
The supplements had the right idea and the wrong route.
Swallowed, magnesium gets shared out across every cell in your body, and only a trace ever reaches your feet. That's why the bottle tells you to give it three months.
None of it failed you. None of it was ever aimed at the thing that's burning.
Your neurologist told you the damage is permanent and he wasn't lying. But the burning isn't made deep inside the nerve where the damage is. It's made at the nerve endings in the skin of your feet — a quarter inch under your own fingers.
That's why a lotion. Not because it's gentler, or more natural. Because that's where the burning is coming from.
You've been treating your whole body. The problem is in your feet.