Diabetic neuropathy symptoms face
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Bilateral (on both sides) facial numbness is mainly due to diabetic neuropathy, panic attacks or as a side effect of drugs. Alcoholic neuropathy, multiple sclerosis and neuropraxia or bruised nerves could also be the cause numbness on both sides of the face. Please go through this and see if something strikes you like diabetes or alcohol use. If not please consult a neurologist.
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Parathesia on various areas of the body, including the face can be a sign of diabetic neuropathy. Your drooping eyelid is called ptosis and this can come from various causes with diabetic neuropathy among them. Mine came about because of my thyroid problems. I have had both conditions. Get your diabetes under control and you will be less likely to develop these conditions (and so will I).
If one is diabetic and has an accident causing trauma, like blunt force, to the foot damaging nerves, is this considered diabetic neuropathy, or can it lead to diabetic neuropathy? A comprehensive foot exam to assess the skin, muscles, bones, circulation, and sensation of the feet is in order. People who cannot sense pressure from a pinprick may have lost protective sensation and are at risk for developing foot sores that may not heal properly.
There are other tests the doctor can run.
Most people do not experience complications such as neuropathy until long after diabetes is diagnosed, but on some occasions, I have known diabetic people whose first symptom was some complication such as neuropathy or loss of vision. The complications are caused by long periods of elevated glucose readings that damage small blood vessels and/or nerves, and it IS possible for a person who is developing diabetes to live with elevated glucose levels that are not high enough to be critical (i.e.
In a diabetic with thyroid disease, numbness in the hands would raise concern for another type of neuropathy: carpal tunnel syndrome.
The median nerve can be injured anywhere along its course. If your symptoms are confined to just your hand, it may be the nerve was injured somewhere at the wrist. The carpal tunnel is the area in the wrist that the median nerve passes through.
Tingling or burning in the arms and legs may be an early symptoms of Diabetic Neuropathy. It often begins in your toes and feet. You may have deep pain, often in the feet and legs and obviously it can effect other extremities.
As said above there are medications to help control your symptoms. Maintaining your BS within normal limits is even more important if you have developed Diabetic Neuropathy.
PVD produces similar symptoms and is also more common in diabetics.
Usually, neuropathy first affects the nerves in the limbs or possibly the digestive tract, but you are not mentioning any tingling in fingers or feet (which would be more typical of neuropathy), nor are you mentioning other classic symptoms of hypoglycemia such as sweats, shakiness, hunger, weakness, confusion, etc. Head pain itself is not a typical symptom of anything that is diabetic-related that I personally am aware of, although a headache can happen if glucose levels drop too low.
According to the National Institutes of Health, about half of diabetes sufferers have some form of neuropathy, but not all with neuropathy have symptoms. Peripheral neuropathy, which affects the arms and legs, is the most common type of diabetic neuropathy.
Lou's laboratory specializes in finding and studying damage to large and small nerve fibers, the thin, branch-like threads through which signals are sent between the cell body and its terminal.
Your symptoms do not sound anything like neuropathy. Neuropathy symptoms are lack of sensation and/or extreme sensitivity to sensation. I would see your doctor s soon as you can.
The goals of treating diabetic neuropathy are to prevent the disease from getting worse and to reduce the symptoms of the disease. Since it usually develops due to nerve injuries, the damage is irreversible even despite tight control of sugar. Medications used to reduce symptoms include antidepressants, anti seizure medications; drugs, which block bladder contractions etc., consult your neurologist for trial of change of medication to control the neuropathy symptoms. Hope this helps. Take care.
My reaction was intense burning, needle pricking sensation along with some milder numbing and swelling primarily on extremeties, face and mouth. Now the symptoms are milder in the same locations and the numbing is primarily on toes and fingers. Taking benadryl, pepcid, zyrtec and advil. Have seen my primary and allergist. Have an appointment with a neurologist, the wait is long. Is it realistic to think the burning, needle pricking and numbing will totally go away with time?
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Pressure starts in my head and I get an overall sick feeling. Some days are really bad. My face turns red and appears shinny. I am diabetic and have checked my sugar and blood pressure numbers which are fine during these episodes. I have had so many tests and all have come back negative. The neurologist is thinking it may be nerve problems in the brain. My internist is thinking it is related related to diabetic neuropathy. I have never had this feeling before surgery.
Is there any treatment for idiopathic sensory peripherial neuropathy?(non diabetic) Is there any known cause?
and down the line in a few months or years, the Doctors will tell me I have either MS or Lupus, my symptoms are so similar to the symptoms of either one of these diseases. Any suggestions or ideas, as to what to do now., I don't want it to progress any further, I want it to go away. Did anyone take prednisone to take the pain away.
I have neuropathy of my feet all the way up to my knees and now in my hands and in one spot on my face, i was an undiagnosed diabetic for YEARS!!!! I know that pain all to well. I suffered years w/o any meds ( started when i was 21 and I am 47 now) I started on Tramadol and codeine together 5 yrs ago and 4 days ago Topamax was added.
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The tingling sensations can be either due to some nerve compression like disc compression around neck, cervical disc. It can be due to spinal arthritis or due to diabetic neuropathy.
Treatment involves neurotin and vitamin b complexes.
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