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Tingling feet right after eating?

wildrose

wildrose

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I have just had dinner, tomato and bean soup with half a slice of high fibre bread and 4 strawberries, and now my feet have a tingling pins and needles feeling. Just tested my 1h ppbs. It was 7.2.

Does anyone else get this? Is this due to the carbs/sugar I just ate? I noticed this after lunch earlier as well.

Is it this the start of neuropathy? Does it start so soon after eating?

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wildrose said:
But so soon after eating?
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Yes, I've had that for quite a while - I can usually tell if my BG levels are going up (and also down) by the sensations (they're a sort of tingling, I'd agree) in my lower legs and feet. I've likened it to sometimes feeling like a 'cold flush' in my legs.

I also get crackly joints and pain in my hands when trying to close my fingers to make a fist. There's no pain when my fingers are opening, or at rest, just when curling them up.

Oddly enough, all those sensations stopped on Day 2 of my attempt at the Newcastle Diet. That was 12 days ago and, so far, they've not been back - fingers crossed (which I can now do without saying: Ouch! :) )
 
2131tom said:
Yes, I've had that for quite a while - I can usually tell if my BG levels are going up (and also down) by the sensations (they're a sort of tingling, I'd agree) in my lower legs and feet. I've likened it to sometimes feeling like a 'cold flush' in my legs.

I also get crackly joints and pain in my hands when trying to close my fingers to make a fist. There's no pain when my fingers are opening, or at rest, just when curling them up.

Oddly enough, all those sensations stopped on Day 2 of my attempt at the Newcastle Diet. That was 12 days ago and, so far, they've not been back - fingers crossed (which I can now do without saying: Ouch! :) )
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Thanks for your response and glad its getting better of you.

My tingling has now stopped. It lasted about 1h. Is this the sort of thing that happens to you?

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Guess its time to see the doc again. Only thing is he treats me a bit like I'm a hypochondriac.

Nice to know I'm not crazy with the tingling though!

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BTW have you ever tested your BS when you have the 'sensations'? I just checked my 2h and it was 6.7. A number I thought would not cause trouble.

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Strange. Have just read on various other forums that the tingling can increase as the nerves begin to heal or get better. Hope that's the case for both of us

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wildrose said:
BTW have you ever tested your BS when you have the 'sensations'? I just checked my 2h and it was 6.7. A number I thought would not cause trouble.
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If it helps, I never could correlate BG levels with those sensations. They would occur no matter how high or low the readings were, and I tested quite frequently to see if I could find out. Even when I'd got my BG down, following my initial diagnosis, the sensations remained. However, they did seem to be worse when my BG was going rapidly up (as after a meal) or down (say, following exercise).

The pain in my hands had no such pattern. It would be there most of the time and only occasionally disappear. It became very much a background condition - almost always there, but something I'd learned to live with

My GP, who's far better than most I've heard about, said he was 'mystified' by them both (at which point the conversation tailed-off into silence, until one of us changed to another aspect of my condition, entirely).
 
wildrose said:
Were you ever diagnosed with neuropathy?
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No, but I assumed that's what it is/was. My GP didn't say anything when I asked him about it (that was in mid-April this year), or give me any indication that it might be, or what to expect next if it was.

As I said earlier, since I went v low carbs, both those sensations have gone. In thinking about it during this thread, I'm not entirely sure that the pain/sensations might not have been a nervous reaction to my lowering my overall BG, (similar to the blurred vision and 'false hypos' that I also got earlier in the year, and which have also gone).

That's reinforced by my not having them before diagnosis, when my BG was relatively high, but constant. I might be wrong of course, but I hope they stay away and save me having to try and find out, again.
 
I have had the tingling occasionally before but not as frequently as over the last few days.

I've just realised that I haven't done my usual exercise routine due to work over the past few days and am thinking it could be due to that.

Good luck with the Newcastle diet and hope the tingling stays away.

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I have tingling hands and feet, legs too and occasionally kinda allover? What on earth is it? I actually wondered if its my phone!! Hbaic was 6.8 but I wouldn't have thought diabetic complications quite this soon! I am hoping it's a trapped nerve. As I was just diagnosed in Jan as type two, controlled with diet and exercise I haven't tested myself yet. Taken the plunge today and sent off for a meter. Wish me luck!!

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