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- Type of diabetes
- Type 2
- Treatment type
- Tablets (oral)
My Dr has been prescribing gabapentin for me since about Sept/Oct last year for suspected nerve pain that's got progressively worse. It started with a burning, tingling sensation in the lower part of one of my legs. Now, I have very painful and uncomfortable stinging, tingling and burning in both legs, upper legs, buttocks/back of legs, arms and what I can only describe as twinges in other parts of my body. I have been referred to neurology now and have just got a letter with my options. I need to select a hospital and make an appointment.
I've been looking for answers for a while, if I know what it is then maybe I can take steps and measures to relieve the discomfort? I've been looking on the NHS website tonight and some of the symptoms fit and seem to "click into place" - my skin is now quite sensitive to the touch. My skin also feels cold and as someone who was always hot, I now often feel cold when it's not! My sleep is appalling and I don't know how I seem to function on so little. Due to the pain, I am often awake until 1 or 2am in the morning and am up again for work around 6.30am. Interestingly, I think, I stopped my antidepressants in the summer as I thought I could do it. I also had a very stressful year in 2016 including bereavement and life continues to throw things at me. I've read that stress could cause this?
Any help or advice would be hugely appreciated right now, pending the wait to see a neurologist.
I've been looking for answers for a while, if I know what it is then maybe I can take steps and measures to relieve the discomfort? I've been looking on the NHS website tonight and some of the symptoms fit and seem to "click into place" - my skin is now quite sensitive to the touch. My skin also feels cold and as someone who was always hot, I now often feel cold when it's not! My sleep is appalling and I don't know how I seem to function on so little. Due to the pain, I am often awake until 1 or 2am in the morning and am up again for work around 6.30am. Interestingly, I think, I stopped my antidepressants in the summer as I thought I could do it. I also had a very stressful year in 2016 including bereavement and life continues to throw things at me. I've read that stress could cause this?
Any help or advice would be hugely appreciated right now, pending the wait to see a neurologist.