neuropathy

Hello everyone - As part of my PhD our research team from Kings College London, offers to people who suffer from painful diabetic neuropathy (neuropathy/nerve pain due to diabetes), free online psychological treatment based on Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT). This treatment aims to help you...

Polyneuropathy is one of the most common complications in people with diabetes. First symptoms are often pins-and-needles sensations in the feet. Although polyneuropathy is present in about 30 percent of people with diabetes, it often remains undiagnosed. Scientists have now been able to show...

Hi All, My name is Carolina,from the Northwest of Uk. I am new here although I have visited as a guest in the past to improve my knowledge of type 2 diabetes. I'm posting today for advice about a diabetic ulcer on my heel that I have had for 2 year's. I see a podiatrist twice a week at the...

Later this year, we’re going to be launching a campaign to raise awareness of diabetes complications, to make sure people understand that diabetes is a serious condition. As part of the campaign, we’ll be talking about complications – in particular sight loss and amputation – and would like...

So...new to it all, T2D, I posted the other week and got a lovely welcome for which I remain thankful to all you luvvverlies... Anyway, started METFORMIN, all good...been self-testing my bloods and I'm learning through doing so, despite the lack of support from my surgery/GP (expensive innit...

I have been questioning my Neuropathy diagnosis for some time. I was diagnosed with it in March 2017 by an A&E doctor after getting severe freezing sensations in my right leg & pins & needels in my hands, worse on the right, that wouldn’t go away. I had this for 2 weeks off & on with shorter...

Levels of a nerve cell signaling molecule called substance P -- measured in tear samples -- might be a useful marker of diabetes-related nerve damage (neuropathy), suggests a study in the July issue of Optometry and Vision Science, the official journal of the American Academy of Optometry. The...

A federal health agency has found certain antidepressants and anti-seizure drugs are among medications that effectively treat diabetic nerve pain. The research is being published simultaneously in the March 24, 2017, online issue of Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of...

An estimated 60 to 70 percent of people with diabetes develop some form of diabetic neuropathy, or the chronic nerve damage diabetes causes, according to the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases. With so many people affected, researchers at Michigan Medicine led a...

Hi there Just been chatting to a gentleman who would like some direct advice as to the effectivness of a device that appears to stimulate the blood flow in your feet and which claims to help the symptoms of Neuropathy. I can see that a particular device has been discussed but in general have...

Hello, I am contacting on behalf of my Dad, who is Type 2. He is 59 years old and his sugars are constantly 15 or more despite multiple medications and strict adherence to the diet. They were even that way after 24 hours of fasting for a gastroscopy and then again for a colonoscopy. He takes...

I have never written anything like this before but have decided to put fingers to the keyboard to warn others about the situation we have found ourselves in. Our beautiful daughter was diagnosed type 1 5 and a half years ago at the age of 12. At the very least it can be described as a...

I was diagnosed in 2006, through having ketoacidosis and nearly losing my life. 10 years later, at 19 years old I am struggling with T1D more than ever... I need help. I do every bedtime insulin, maybe 1 daytime insulin and NO BG tests...I don't even know where my machine is. Ask you can imagine...

For the 25 percent of type-2 diabetes patients who suffer from numbness and extreme nerve pain in their feet, a new dermatological treatment being tested by Northwestern Medicine scientists could potentially help prevent and maybe even reverse the neuropathy. In a study just published in...

Hi all, I'm new to this site, so hope this is the right board to be posting on! So, a little backstory: I'm Charley, I turn 23 on Thursday, and I've had T1 Diabetes since I was 9 months old. I had good control, and no issues until I turned 11/12 and was sent to boarding school and took on the...

What's everyone's experience of gabapentin? I've been on it for about a year. I'm on 9x300mg a day. I thought it was working for a long time, as I had re-newed energy and able to do stuff. But for the last 2 months, I've been getting that afternoon fatigue (red face, headache, utterly...

Ellis, 59, a mild-mannered disability rights adviser from Lancaster, who has used a wheelchair for the past seven years because of diabetes-related nerve damage, suddenly found himself landed with the job of explaining to the country why this latest set of disability cuts were intolerable – even...

Hi, I have been running an Internet survey on painful neuropathy for the past 6 weeks, and would like to thank all the people who have taken the time to respond. The early analysis of the answers is very promising. The survey does not close until the end of April, if you have painful...

Emerging evidence suggests that the central nervous system (CNS) is a key contributor to the problem of painful peripheral nerve disease in people with diabetes, according to a special article in the February issue of PAIN®, the official publication of the International Association for the Study...