[I am type 2. Confirmed diabetes since 2021. On insulin and metformin. 30 stone]
Last week I started to get stabbing sensations in my feet, I assumed it was anxiety as I have a brother in law who has peripheral neuropathy of his feet (he thinks it due to his diabetes but it is not proven) and he would go in to great detail of what it felt like and the consequences and his fears, and after we last spoke about 6 weeks ago I was a nervous wreck as he went in to detail how diabetes attacks the extremities, how toes can fall off, etc, and my daily blood sugar tests are far higher than his so it effected my subconscious and existing anxiety badly. Within the last week my toes became numb, painful, and lacking in any feeling other than the pain. Yet I passed a diabetic foot check just 2 months ago. This is insane speed. I thought diabetic nerve damage happened slowly ?
I think the pain and sensations I am going through go way beyond anxiety and are just a sad coincidence. I am in agony with my feet with nerve stabbing pain, especially my left foot, and I can't sit in chairs for long as within minutes the pain increases and increases in my left foot and it sharply prickles. I am laid down in bed most of the time and even that isn't pain free, just a lot better. I can't bend my toes up, and when I try and curl them they feel very stiff. When I am sat in an armchair, not only do I get the stabbing nerve pains in my left foot but also occasional stabs in my calf and left hand.
A month ago my diabetes nurse changed me from 120 units a day intermediate insulin to slow release once a day insulin of same units. I am also on 2 metformin a day. Levels between 10 and 22 a day on finger prick test, 3 monthly test at 102.
I know I will have to see a nurse or doctor, but I know what they will say and that they will offer nerve pain pills. I suffer massively from reactive tinnitus that I can barely cope with and most nerve pain tablets can make tinnitus even worse, so I feel stuck on how to deal with this.
Do you think there is any chance my stress and anxiety about getting peripheral neuropathy made perhaps pre-existing symptomless diabetic neuropathy worse ? I have no idea if I had it before, I definitely couldn't feel any nerve damage, and I do know a month back I would have to grip my chair and grit my teeth due to being so ticklish when my toes were being cut by family member (at 30 stone I am too big to cut them myself). When they did them 2 days ago I couldn't feel a thing. Terrifies me so much.
I realise diabetic neuropathy can't be cured by doctors, but has anyone here or anyone you know had it appear like this then go away fully ? Especially soon after starting ?
I have attached my Dexcom chart from the last 10 days, which covers when this began. My awake times are 3pm to 6am, so consider 3pm to be most peoples 8am, so the very low area is when I am asleep. Due to my depression and anxiety I comfort eat a lot of bad food, I guess I was under the false illusion that regardless of the numbers the insulin and metformin would keep diabetic neuropathy at bay, oh dear.
Thanks for any help.
Last week I started to get stabbing sensations in my feet, I assumed it was anxiety as I have a brother in law who has peripheral neuropathy of his feet (he thinks it due to his diabetes but it is not proven) and he would go in to great detail of what it felt like and the consequences and his fears, and after we last spoke about 6 weeks ago I was a nervous wreck as he went in to detail how diabetes attacks the extremities, how toes can fall off, etc, and my daily blood sugar tests are far higher than his so it effected my subconscious and existing anxiety badly. Within the last week my toes became numb, painful, and lacking in any feeling other than the pain. Yet I passed a diabetic foot check just 2 months ago. This is insane speed. I thought diabetic nerve damage happened slowly ?
I think the pain and sensations I am going through go way beyond anxiety and are just a sad coincidence. I am in agony with my feet with nerve stabbing pain, especially my left foot, and I can't sit in chairs for long as within minutes the pain increases and increases in my left foot and it sharply prickles. I am laid down in bed most of the time and even that isn't pain free, just a lot better. I can't bend my toes up, and when I try and curl them they feel very stiff. When I am sat in an armchair, not only do I get the stabbing nerve pains in my left foot but also occasional stabs in my calf and left hand.
A month ago my diabetes nurse changed me from 120 units a day intermediate insulin to slow release once a day insulin of same units. I am also on 2 metformin a day. Levels between 10 and 22 a day on finger prick test, 3 monthly test at 102.
I know I will have to see a nurse or doctor, but I know what they will say and that they will offer nerve pain pills. I suffer massively from reactive tinnitus that I can barely cope with and most nerve pain tablets can make tinnitus even worse, so I feel stuck on how to deal with this.
Do you think there is any chance my stress and anxiety about getting peripheral neuropathy made perhaps pre-existing symptomless diabetic neuropathy worse ? I have no idea if I had it before, I definitely couldn't feel any nerve damage, and I do know a month back I would have to grip my chair and grit my teeth due to being so ticklish when my toes were being cut by family member (at 30 stone I am too big to cut them myself). When they did them 2 days ago I couldn't feel a thing. Terrifies me so much.
I realise diabetic neuropathy can't be cured by doctors, but has anyone here or anyone you know had it appear like this then go away fully ? Especially soon after starting ?
I have attached my Dexcom chart from the last 10 days, which covers when this began. My awake times are 3pm to 6am, so consider 3pm to be most peoples 8am, so the very low area is when I am asleep. Due to my depression and anxiety I comfort eat a lot of bad food, I guess I was under the false illusion that regardless of the numbers the insulin and metformin would keep diabetic neuropathy at bay, oh dear.
Thanks for any help.
