My neuropathy - some answers (at last)

[John_H]

Comrades

The topic of most of my posts is my mystery neuropathy which appeared the day after diagnosis, two years ago. This manifests itself as a numbness in my toes which got progressively worse over the first year or so and appears to have plateaued. Two consultants and various DNSs have been unable to explain this and I was referred to a Sheffield-based consultant who specialises in this sort of thing. I thought I would share his conclusions with y’all. They are that I have small fibre neuropathy, probably as a result of rapid glycaemic control following treatment with insulin. This so-called insulin neuritis or treatment induced neuropathy of diabetes normally improves gradually over about 12 to 18 months, but this consultant has also seen a few other lucky people, like me, in which the neuritis does not completely resolve. Unfortunately, there is no clinically proven treatment.

Hope this is useful/informative for anyone else who is experiencing anything similar.

Regards

John

 

[pansy1954]

I think I have neuropathy, I started getting burning sharp needle like pain through my left hand knuckles then it started shooting across the top of my hand from my fingers to wrist bone that lasted for a few weeks, every time I saw a doctor for my Parkinson's or GP they said it was,nt neuropathy they were,not very helpful,pain has been a lot less severe,pain tablets don't do anything for it,but something that does work,a glove yes a glove,it,s used by arthritis suffers I put it on and the pain goes immediately now pain is starting in right hand but not so bad​