 [ Symptoms ] can burning a nerve help relieve nerve pain  a friend of mine was told burning the nerve can help relieve nerve pain [ Disease ] let him do it sometimes bad experiences help the answer is no if you try and burn a nerve there is a very good chance that the pain will be worse i have neuropathy and my doctor wanted to do this but stated that it is a 5050 chance that it would work my wife is a nurse and she asked about this with doctors she assists at the hospital and they stated the same and also the pain usually returns