For a few months my toes have gone numb and I have a permanent tingling. Before sleeping, the discomfort increases in intensity and the contact hurts. I massage my feet but it doesn't get better. As I take corticosteroids for another autoimmune problem in my eyes, an endocrinologist prescribed calcitrium because he says that corticosteroids block the chemical pathway to make Ca assimilable.
After 1 month there is a slight improvement, but I do not know if it is a result of exercises or massage. I take vitamin D every month. Isn't it a diabetic neuropathy problem? Endeed!!!
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I also having similar problem. This is verified by phisiotheripest and informed that i donut have any touching sensation from knee to foot un both legs. I should be careful for any injuries which i don't sense. Also had nerve damage near a foot nerve end. Went for all tests like MRI and nerve but no known information for treatment.
I am nearly 74, my left leg and low back pain started in my 30s.
I had a couple of fall in the snow in UK. Because I am in the heavy weight area it was difficult to get looked till I reduced my weight, it is all history.
In 1980 I got a network fixing job and I used to drive to locations far away , 1 hours 2 hours and at times 4 hours away. I used to drive without stopping, an automatic car ,the left leg was just resting during the long drive.
My problem now is from hip to toe is very painful in my left leg. One hour driving can be difficult as well. My blood glucose was high 8 years ago, it is under control by life style change and regular exercise. I do go for annual eye, foot and blood (HbA1C) check.
Leg pain is so bad at times difficult to sleep, also difficult to get up and move away from a chair. The doctors cannot see my problem, all checks are fine. About two years ago my left knee just gave up while in a Q at an airport.!!
Any way I am managing it.
What type of work do you do? How did you get a nerve damage? What tests were done to identify this?
I had 1. MRI from knee to food for physical check to see any but rest is NIL.
2. Electromyography to track nerve damage. Nothing they could not able to get Nerve damage etc.
I went to a physiotherpist. He asked me go for exercises including accupanture and ball rolling exercise for blood circulation. I understands that no great treatments exist except do some exercises to keep blood circulation and physically fit.
I´m 73. I was always insulin resistant since 13th years old. The definition of Insulin resistance (IR) by the AMA date from the 90´s. My husband (I am widowed now), told me about the "new" definition of IR and commented: The symptoms defined by AMA for IR are just your descriptions!
I´m a physicist (PhD), specialist in materials for the nuclear industry. Applied physics... So, I have a good experimental training and detailed and systematic observation capacity. Obviously, my English could be rather confuse for people with English as a mother language. Very sorry.
I red twice your post. Here, my comments:
1.- The problems in your left lower side could had been caused by an injury in your spinal cord.
2.- I can´t catch clearly the mining of "the heavy weight area" this means overweight? Do you know your body mass index, or simple, how tall are you? and what is your weight?
3.- An inquire, when you walk -10 years ago- how unbalanced was your walk? Why I ask this? Because after 30 years of unbalanced walking, you will get a non uniform wear of the tissues covering your hip, knee, ankle end even feet joints.
4.- I am definitively defined as a patient with Diabetes (DBT) type 2 since my 55`s. This means 18 years of control Glucose, biochemical analysis and 2 or 3 visits to an specialist per year. Since then, my HbA1C raises slowly. I am now at 6.5. Moreover, I have a professional disease infected at optical microscopes, it is an autoimmune disease. To control this disease I´m in corticosteroids treatment. Those problem makes me insulin requirent. I take a fast insulin and the control of glucose level becomes rather difficult (homeostasis). That´s the reason why I am at 6.5 instead of 5.7 or under 6.0.
5.- Actually, I do not know if I have nerve damage. All the scientific literature I have read (mainly review papers) describes my symptoms as Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathy. I need the eye of a clinician but the COVID19 disease is problem for a personnel interview at the consultation room.
6.- There are some medical practice to measure nerve transmission. Actually, I don´t know about this technique.
7.- 10 years ago a psychiatric gave me a recipe for PREGABALINE due to pain in my ankles and the pain disappeared. Pregabaline is an anti-convulsive pill and doses management and adverse side effects has to be supervised by an experienced pain specialist or a psychiatric specialist with knowledge on DBT .
8.- I will have a ZOOM meeting with my specialist.
1. Yes, possible, also I was a premature baby and there is small difference in my hip for which I take regular exercise. I had had a small lather to raise my heel in my left leg.
2. I had injection in the lower back are to relief pain. Heavy weight, I used to lift weight in my younger days therefore upper body is wide, My, BMI, over weight.
3. An x-ray showed the difference in hip height back in 1973.
4. So far no medication for Type 2.
5. Nothing to say.
6., 7., and 8. Again nothing to say.
So far I have been managing it, will keep on going. Birth problem of hip was not checked because of medical facilities.
I am 68 years old. Taking following medicines from diabetic and blood pressure survival. 1. Lantus 30 units Night 2. Actarapid 25 units morning 3. Gamer 2mg 1+1. 4. Istamet 50/500. 1+1. 5. Startel beta 50 mg. One morning. 6. Echosprin 75 av mg. One. 7. Nurobin Forte one . As per doctor prescription. Walking 30 minutes morning and evening. Allegra 120 mg in the night for itching problem.. Just information. Sugar and BP readings reasonably OK
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