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I’m hoping I can pick someone’s brains. I’ve been diabetic (type 2) since 2014. HBA1C been 41 , 40 for the last 2 years. For the last 18 months I have been suffering with numbness in my little finger an pain in my elbow (like hitting my funny bone) when opening doors, typing messages on my phone and just sometimes sitting watching tv. I have had 2 nerve conduction tests that seem to show that the nerve is ok (not damaged)??
My consultant said I have the option of surgery, but has no guarantee that it will fix it and could make it worse. He said when I am getting pain watching tv, that it didn’t sound like nerve entrapment but more likely my diabetes (he said something which I can’t remember but didn’t say neuropathy)? Anyone know what that might be?
He also said there was the option of tablets, gabapentin or pregabalin. I am already taking Nortriptyline for tmj pain (taken off Amitriptyline as I was getting heart palpitations)
Has anyone got any experience of gabapentin or pregabalin for nerve entrapment? I know I have took gabapentin previously for TMJ but it didn’t work for that, but I appreciate this is different?
Also has anyone had experience good or bad with surgery. The doctor said that surgery tends to be more difficult with diabetics as their nerves aren’t in as good a condition as a rule.
I’m hoping I can pick someone’s brains. I’ve been diabetic (type 2) since 2014. HBA1C been 41 , 40 for the last 2 years. For the last 18 months I have been suffering with numbness in my little finger an pain in my elbow (like hitting my funny bone) when opening doors, typing messages on my phone and just sometimes sitting watching tv. I have had 2 nerve conduction tests that seem to show that the nerve is ok (not damaged)??
My consultant said I have the option of surgery, but has no guarantee that it will fix it and could make it worse. He said when I am getting pain watching tv, that it didn’t sound like nerve entrapment but more likely my diabetes (he said something which I can’t remember but didn’t say neuropathy)? Anyone know what that might be?
He also said there was the option of tablets, gabapentin or pregabalin. I am already taking Nortriptyline for tmj pain (taken off Amitriptyline as I was getting heart palpitations)
Has anyone got any experience of gabapentin or pregabalin for nerve entrapment? I know I have took gabapentin previously for TMJ but it didn’t work for that, but I appreciate this is different?
Also has anyone had experience good or bad with surgery. The doctor said that surgery tends to be more difficult with diabetics as their nerves aren’t in as good a condition as a rule.