Gabapentin is what worked for me. I won't presume that the same answer is going to work for all of us, but I'm in agreement that there are a number of things that can be tried between "suffer through it" and "cut it off". Besides, if the amputation of the end of a nerve is causing so many problems, more amputation will just give you another cut of the nerve at a different point. I'm no doctor, but that sounds like it could backfire bigtime.