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Painful Feet

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Ennaixoxo21

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Type of diabetes
Type 2
Treatment type
Tablets (oral)
Hi I suffer from incredibly painful feet. Burning sensations and it feels really uncomfortable to put my feet on certain surfaces like rugs, carpets etc. Can anyone tell me how to relieve these symptoms and why it gets worse in the evenings/nights.
 
Hi

I had very similar symptoms for a few years. In my case it was a level of neuropathy assocaited with raised BG - mine started with a BG around 43 or 44 in 2014. I didn't find anything that would relieve the symptoms at all - pain relief didn't work, nothing. Mine got much worse at night. My copy of Bilous and Donnelly's "Handbook of Diabetes" has a lot to say about recognising what diabetic neuropathy looks like but nothing much on how to relieve the symptoms. It seems to suggest that the cause is (put simply) high blood glucose over time damaging the longer nerves in the body first, which is why it tends to appear in our feet initially. There's no explanation for why the pain gets worse at night.

However my burning feet, stabbing pains etc all vanished as soon as I got my BG back into normal range in early 2020. I do still have some residual tingling which is probably permament damage but it's really not pain. If you have diabetic neuropathy reducing your BG levels would be the only thing I could suggest.
 
Thank you for your reply. I really need to work on my BG. It's very poorly controlled at the moment. I'm finding it almost impossible to get any sort of control
 
I had a really bad reaction to the AZ Covid jab and one of the things which helped me with even being able to stand was massaging my legs and using the hot and cold settings on the shower to encourage blood to flow and the swelling to reduce. The pain was still memorable but it reduced quickly - I was showering up to 4 times a day though, and spending about ten minutes each time. I know the position of arteries and veins, so can work out where down and up should be happening.
I decided that my feet seemed bruised, so I did not walk about barefoot but added layers of soft innersoles to some sandals with velcro adjustments, so as not to put pressure on my feet. I then cut out innersole shapes from some lambskin pieces and that really reduced the pain and over a couple of days increased my ability to move around.
Whenever my feet feel even the least bit different these days I go back to the same remedies, as I have had a couple of run ins with what the GPs decided was cellulitis, equally painful.
These days I am ultra cautious, I wash my feet and rub an antiseptic cream on my toes before and after cutting my nails - but my grandmother's amputations began with a pair of nail clippers, according to my father's recollections, so that helps no end with the diet and the prevention.
 
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