Northerner
Admin (Retired)
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
Is managing diabetic neuropathy so difficult that we need more drugs? Some, but not all, of our diabetes professionals say that it is.
"We have no licensed treatment for diabetic neuropathy,? Rayaz A. Malik, professor of medicine at the University of Manchester, in December told the World Congress of the International Diabetes Federation World. ?We have witnessed failure after failure of numerous clinical trials despite great experimental data. None of these drugs has been translated into therapies that we can prescribe to our patients."
He explained that the treatments we have for neuropathy offer only symptomatic relief. He says that at best only half of the people with diabetic neuropathy get just 50 percent pain relief. And the drugs we have don?t reverse the nerve damage that causes the pain.
While some people advocate blood sugar control, ?at best it prevents progression in type 1 diabetes,? he says. ?But not in type 2 diabetes.?
http://www.healthcentral.com/diabetes/c/17/167039/control-diabetic-neuropathy
"We have no licensed treatment for diabetic neuropathy,? Rayaz A. Malik, professor of medicine at the University of Manchester, in December told the World Congress of the International Diabetes Federation World. ?We have witnessed failure after failure of numerous clinical trials despite great experimental data. None of these drugs has been translated into therapies that we can prescribe to our patients."
He explained that the treatments we have for neuropathy offer only symptomatic relief. He says that at best only half of the people with diabetic neuropathy get just 50 percent pain relief. And the drugs we have don?t reverse the nerve damage that causes the pain.
While some people advocate blood sugar control, ?at best it prevents progression in type 1 diabetes,? he says. ?But not in type 2 diabetes.?
http://www.healthcentral.com/diabetes/c/17/167039/control-diabetic-neuropathy