Originally Posted by
hypochondriac 
If you have no physical symptoms there probably isn't much point in being tested for nerve damage. Do they know you've quit drinking? I'm sure if you tell them they will give you a prescription for vitamins. It sounds like you're not happy with your doctors though. I can relate to that! Can you change surgeries? Or is there a doc there you like? I know it's difficult to get appointments but I'm pretty sure you have the right to request the doctor you want and make advance appointments if it's for an ongoing condition.
There were and still are plenty of physcal symptoms, I ended up in hospital about four years back due to nerves on one side of head and neck swelling up and having visual distortions (I was then told I needed B vits), prior to this for years I had pins and needles in hands , blood in stool, grinding rambling speech/thoughts and distorted vision.
These more or less cleared up with prescribed Vits, but other probs occurred , nose bleeds , foggy brain, blurred vision disassociation and panic, trial and error lead me to buying own full range natural B vits, my health has greatly improved since then (also making sure I get B12 as it was not in the prescribed meds)
Recently I complained to head of surgery so will see another GP from this surgery again (hopefuly the complaint will have had an effect, if not I will get another doctor elsewhere),
To me I think if someone presented this history to me the logical step would be to check for nerve damage via neuroligist ie Alcohol use and veggie diet, no B vit nerve protection for thirty years, yet no one seems to think it so, even stopped going to alcohol groups partly because of this, they just say follow GPs suggestions, or go off their own psychological probs, maybe some have undiagnosed nerve dmage that is being treated as psychological dont know.
I have never been through structured detox or rehab, where some of these probs could have been addressed