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Hi, I’m new here, been type 2 diabetic for 12 years now. I was a cyclist when I started with it? I’m on Metformin X2 twice a day. Blood sugars run between 38-45. But I now find I have awful pain in my lower legs and feet, which I’ve had confirmed as neuropathy. If my sugars go up, say after a apple and it goes into 7-7.6 the pain is worse. It also hurts when my sugars are 5.2 or there abouts. Does anyone else experience this? My GP and diabetic nurse have never come across it. Thanks.
 
Do you regularly eat apples and other high carb foods?
You might be having quite high spikes and that could be the problem.
I stick to low carb foods and only eat as part of meals, no snacks - and I eat first thin after getting up and then again in the evening, so I go all day 'fasting' as I am not hungry.
One thing you might try, to improve circulation is tablets of Ginko Biloba extract - tea from the maidenhair tree is the same thing and it was used for the same ends for a long time in its native parts.
 
Hi, no I usually only have them after I’ve been training as I’m totally spent. I sometimes wonder if I’ve too tight a control on my sugar, fasting is 48 or lower. Plus I work rotating shifts and I’m often exhausted. I’m on Gabapentin and a codein based drug now, with the usual side effects. Thanks for your advice.
 
Drummer said:
Do you regularly eat apples and other high carb foods?
You might be having quite high spikes and that could be the problem.
I stick to low carb foods and only eat as part of meals, no snacks - and I eat first thin after getting up and then again in the evening, so I go all day 'fasting' as I am not hungry.
One thing you might try, to improve circulation is tablets of Ginko Biloba extract - tea from the maidenhair tree is the same thing and it was used for the same ends for a long time in its native parts.
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I’ll have a look at the Ginko tonight. Thanks
 
You could try a dual channel TENS machine, they can be much more effective than drugs if used according to instruction, and they are small enough to use walking about. Worked for me, and a lot of MS sufferers who get nerve pain. The Ginko may help, it’s a good old fashioned treatment where it grows. I now use CBD oil, 15% which you can’t buy in the shops, but you can buy on from Amazon, but make sure it’s a British manufacturer. None of the treatments I mentioned have any particular side effects, unlike the gabapentin and opiates.
 
mikeyB said:
You could try a dual channel TENS machine, they can be much more effective than drugs if used according to instruction, and they are small enough to use walking about. Worked for me, and a lot of MS sufferers who get nerve pain. The Ginko may help, it’s a good old fashioned treatment where it grows. I now use CBD oil, 15% which you can’t buy in the shops, but you can buy on from Amazon, but make sure it’s a British manufacturer. None of the treatments I mentioned have any particular side effects, unlike the gabapentin and opiates.
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Thank you for this information, I will certainly look into it all. Thanks 🙂
 
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