I was diagnosed with Type 2 in 2001, although I had numbness in my feet and hands for at least 3 or 4 years prior. Blood sugar didn't confirm diabetes before that.
It started as pins and needles while standing. Then the gradual numbness began, most noticeable in the feet and then the hands and forearms and even the face. It was almost like very slowly turning a rheostat. Some days I'd wake up to a slightly higher level of tingling in some body part, usually the hands. Within a few days that became the new normal and I just accepted it.
My diabetes doc says the peripheral neuropathy in diabetes patients is not reversible, all you can do is hope to slow the progression and take
meds to ease the pain (if it is painful, that is). Mine is not all that painful. My feet just feel like they are shrink-wrapped, my balance is suspect because the toes don't do their job as well when they have no feeling. God forbid a policeman asks me to do a sobriety test!
To the point that started this thread, I wake up each morning with very numb hands. I always worry that they will stay that way but after a few moments the numbness fades and I go on with my day.
I am nearly 72 so old age is creeping up. The meds have my blood sugar at very acceptable levels and I stay pretty active. A golfer would say "at least I am on the the right side of the divot!"
Cheers and good luck to all.