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neuropathy

  1. Diabetes UK

    Would you like to help raise awareness of diabetes complications?

    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...
  2. TheHumbleEgg

    Coincidence or a possible norm???

    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...
  3. Lanny

    Postherpetic neuralgia PHN & shingles

    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...
  4. Paula Maddison-Green

    Devices that would help Foot Neuropathy

    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...
  5. L

    Type 2 (advanced?) - Thoughts/Advice Please

    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...
    • Lucy H
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    • anaemia dry eczema exhaustion high sugars liver medications neuropathy numb type2
    • Replies: 6
    • Forum: General Message Board
  6. J

    Hidden danger

    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...
    • JFW
    • Thread
    • 17yrs neuropathy pain teenager
    • Replies: 16
    • Forum: Parents
  7. B

    10 years and still struggling...

    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...
  8. C

    Diabetic Neuropathy - Advice needed!

    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...
  9. theeicebear

    gabapentin (for nerve damage)?

    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...
  10. B

    Thank you for the responses - PDN survey

    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...
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