I’m a strong advocate of herbal medicine. I use tinctures or teas. I’ve had great success with passionflower, California poppy, and prickly ash. Also St. John’s wort which I make an infused oil, then I make a salve and add essential oils. With my recent diagnoses I looking into powdering my herbs and making capsules. I’m am very cautious with pharmaceuticals. I have had so many reactions to meds.

Not an answer, just support. I'm in the same boat but it's fairly new for me. Actually that's inaccurate. More precisely it's been with me over 2 years, (before COVID hit) but has only become bad recently. Originally it was just the bottom of my feet that hurt and only occasionally and only when walking without shoes. It's now at the point where it's still mostly OK with shoes, but shoeless it hurts a lot, and it's by far the worst as soon as I lay down for the night. It's odd but laying down what hurts most is my two biggest toes on both feed and the ball of each foot. The toes, aside from the pain, feel like they have a thick bandage wrapped around them. What it is during the day I've learned to put up with but this night time crap is getting to be too much. Especially with the diabetic joy of going to the bathroom almost every hour on those bare feet. I just got one of those Dr Scholls hot water foot massage things so we'll try that tonight, but I'd certainly welcome any ideas that have helped you, or even if not I'm here if you want to vent. Hope things are improving for you. Cheers

𝙄 𝙝𝙖𝙫𝙚 𝙣𝙚𝙪𝙧𝙤𝙥𝙖𝙩𝙝𝙮 𝙞𝙣 𝙢𝙮 𝙛𝙚𝙚𝙩 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙬𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙝𝙖𝙨 𝙝𝙚𝙡𝙥𝙚𝙙 𝙢𝙚 𝙞𝙨 𝙘𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙚𝙙 𝙜𝙖𝙗𝙖𝙥𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙞𝙣. 𝙄𝙩𝙨 𝙥𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙘𝙧𝙞𝙗𝙚𝙙 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙣𝙚𝙪𝙧𝙤𝙥𝙖𝙩𝙝𝙮.

Thank you so much

If it is still in the early stages and you don't want to medicate (which is an option - gabapentin or pregabalin are the most popular options) then there are a few tricks.

Soaking your feet in hot water (or one of those foot baths) with some Epsom Salts added helps - those foot massage gadgets - liniment or any of those creams athletes use for sore or strained muscles.

Ultimately it is a "nerve pain" but anything that you can do to increase the blood flow to the feet will knock it back it somewhat.

My father, who grew up on a farm and had very bad diabetic neuropathy in his later years used some salve that was designed for rubbing down horses legs (similar to liniment) and always said it gave him relief - but it stunk like crazy 😃