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Message: <blockquote data-quote="KennyA" data-source="post: 2660450" data-attributes="member: 517579">Hi CrazyCatLady2693Neuropathy is one of those things about the diabetic experience - everyone knows it's common, they know what causes it, but there doesn't seem to be very much official understanding of why people experience different sorts of neuropathy and what can be done about it. I usually refer to the Bilous and Donnelly "Handbook of Diabetes" which is good at describing neuropathy and its consequences,  but pretty poor at suggesting what you (or a doc) can do about it. It's full of things like "the natural history of painful neuropathy is unclear" and "...few [treatments] have been subjected to well-designed randomised controlled trials".  Reducing blood glucose levels worked for me, really quickly. My neuropathy started while my A1c was 44 and I had it for about five or six years.  Incidentally, at this time I was being told I wasn't diabetic despite the number of diabetic symptoms I had.  I took naproxen for the pain. While the pain has long gone, I do still have a residual tingle which is probably permanent, but definitely nowhere on a pain scale. The other thing that occurs that you might want to check is gout. I have had this as well, alongside neuropathy pain, and found it very difficult to work out whuich was which. A full-blown gout attack, once it develops properly, is much worse than neuropathy, bad as that is.</blockquote>

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