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Feet pain
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What are your blood sugars like? Do you test before and 2 hours after meals to check if you are eating too many carbs?
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Hi Cheflee and welcome to the forums. One of the rules on here is that no-one can or should attempt to diagnose. However talking about your own experience is fine, and that's what I'm going to do now.
I had quite painful neuropathy in my feet for some years before I was diagnosed. It was mainly burning, rather than stabbing, but there was a bit of that too. I had a couple of gout experiences in 2017 - gout pain is far worse. Both have thankfully gone - what's left of the neuropathy is just a bit of a tingle and I wouldn't call it pain.
I think what helped me was a very low-carb (keto) diet that got my BGs back to normal levels very quickly. That had an immediate impact on the neuropathy. I cut out any foods that raised my BGs too much - that meant stopping bread, pasta, potatoes, rice, pastry, sugar, fruit.... and I still don't eat them.
I found out what the problem food were (all carbs) by testing before esting and then two hours later. By two hours your body should have returned your blood glucose level to where it was before eating - if it hasn't, that shows there were too many carbs for your system to cope with. If that goes on, the level of glucose in your blood will stay high and get higher, and high blood glucose levels cause physical damage (which is where the neuropathy comes from). The body will also try to store the excess glucose as fat, so weight gain is likely.
Cutting out carbs breaks this cycle and lowers your glucose levels. Once you get back in balance things should stabilise.
I had quite painful neuropathy in my feet for some years before I was diagnosed. It was mainly burning, rather than stabbing, but there was a bit of that too. I had a couple of gout experiences in 2017 - gout pain is far worse. Both have thankfully gone - what's left of the neuropathy is just a bit of a tingle and I wouldn't call it pain.
I think what helped me was a very low-carb (keto) diet that got my BGs back to normal levels very quickly. That had an immediate impact on the neuropathy. I cut out any foods that raised my BGs too much - that meant stopping bread, pasta, potatoes, rice, pastry, sugar, fruit.... and I still don't eat them.
I found out what the problem food were (all carbs) by testing before esting and then two hours later. By two hours your body should have returned your blood glucose level to where it was before eating - if it hasn't, that shows there were too many carbs for your system to cope with. If that goes on, the level of glucose in your blood will stay high and get higher, and high blood glucose levels cause physical damage (which is where the neuropathy comes from). The body will also try to store the excess glucose as fat, so weight gain is likely.
Cutting out carbs breaks this cycle and lowers your glucose levels. Once you get back in balance things should stabilise.
ajbod
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Pre diagnosis i had excruciating burning feet at night, the duvet was agony and i had to hang my feet out of bed. They were incredibly sensitive, and still are. My other symptom was numb thighs occasionally. All the pain and numbness went very shortly after dropping carbs dramatically. my feet are still very sensitive as they have always been, and shocks the DN when tested, but my right foot i can't feel the tuning fork despite this.
I have this at the moment, its so painful just to touch the sheet or duvet! I also experience numbness in feet and part way up lower legs. I'm newly on insulin injections so hoping that can help alleviate symptoms, will talk to my nurse about a low carb diet. It's encouraging to hear it made a difference for you.
