Diabetic neuropathy symptoms adults
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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.
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.
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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.
Is he getting this checked by his Pedi Dr? I'm not sure if a babies sugar should be the same as an adults but if it is then yes, that's too high.
Is he having any symptoms like drinking alot of liquids all the time?
Please let us know if it was his Dr that gave you his sugar reading. Take care.
I have been a diabetic now for 19 yrs and have been diagnosed with a new complication from it that is making my life extremely hard. I've been told that I have neuropathy of the stomach. When I asked my GI doctor if it's the same as gastroparesis he said it was but that it is effecting my whole GI system, not just the stomach. I have all of the symptoms of the chronic condition except for one.
This article may help you understand more about neuropathy symptoms and what you can do to prevent neuropathy from happening to you, even if you have diabetes.
http://www.medhelp.org/diabetes/articles/Diabetes-and-Your-Nerves/2295
http://www.medhelp.org/diabetes/articles/Take-Care-of-Your-Nerves/1827
Good luck with your recovery!
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