Peripheral Neuropathy/metformin help please

[Becca]

Hi, have been asked about these things and wonder if anyone can help or have any links i can send on. Thanks 🙂

"Do you know anything about peripheral Neuropathy and diabetes, also after information on metformin and heart attacks. I have looked on the net for info about them but am not getting very far. I know you are more clued up on type 1 than type 2 but thought you may have some info or know where I can find some.

 

[Northerner]

Peripheral neuropathy affects the limbs, hands and particularly the feet. It can manifest itself either as sharp pains or numbness. The danger is that a person may not feel it if they injure their feet if they are numb and injuries may therefore go untreated and get infected. There's something called transient neuropathy which is often experienced when levels start to fall after diagnosis and treatment for diabetes is started - I had this and still get the occasional sharp pain in my toes. Usually, this is felt most at night.

One of our members, Lee Nevitt, has written a blog about neuropathy which is well worth reading:

http://diabetes-and-neuropathy.blogspot.com/

Hope this helps 🙂

 

[Becca]

Thanks 🙂 will pass this on 🙂

 

[Northerner]

Thanks 🙂 will pass this on 🙂

You may not spot this at the bottom of Lee's blog, but it is a link to his site which explains all about neuropathy:

http://sites.google.com/site/allaboutdiabeticneuropathy/

 

[lyndasw]

😱 just been reading the link about neuropathy! scary but has to be read. Also read Lee's write up 'what happened' about when he was diagnosed and I shall read some of his blogs later when I have time. thank you for posting the links

 

[RachelT]

www.patient.co.uk for all your medical information needs, it's got a great leaflet on Heart attacks (by great i obviously mean informative, heart attacks are not great....) which we used on our BTEC course a couple of years ago. Although it doesn't nessasarily agree with what some of our fellow posters say about Cholesterol. Also the forum there has a somewhat startling story of a woman who's diabetes went away after her gastric band surgery. Not too sure about that myself, i think it'll be back.There's also info on Metformin and it's all in fairly simple english. For proper medical stuff i use Wikipedia.

 

[margie]

Hi Rachel

someone I know had their need for diabetes medication vanish after gastric band surgery. Its down to the weightloss. There is some kind of formula as to how much insulin you need per day for a given weight. So if you lose a set amount your requirement disappears. If you are producing insulin the weight loss can be sufficient that your body can deal with what you are eating.

It won't work for everyone, and they are at risk of needing meds again at a later date.

 

[anneparker]

No medical treatments exist that can cure inherited peripheral neuropathy. However, there exist many treatments like light therapy which can reduce pain to a great extent.