What are diabetic neuropathy symptoms?

If you don’t know what diabetic neuropathy symptoms you should look out for, it can be a sneaky beast. It starts slow and can build to a frenzy over months to years, especially if your blood sugar is poorly controlled. Symptoms vary from person to person but are common among most sufferers.

It tends to start in the toes, or sometimes the pads of the feet (just behind the toes). It’s usually just tingling, to begin with, sometimes worse when your blood sugar is high. This early stage can be a little annoying, but it does tend to come and go a bit. If you can start caring for your neuropathy at this point, you can likely avoid permanent damage.

Heading down the slippery slope

If a person doesn’t start working to prevent and reverse their diabetic neuropathy at the outset, it will tend to worsen. As you move to the next stage, the numbness and tingling tends to spread farther back in the foot, and sometimes there is a “burning” sensation as well, especially when sugars are high. Some report a sensation like “walking on bubble wrap” or feeling like “my socks are bunched up”.

At this point, things become more difficult, and the neuropathy symptoms can actually begin to interfere with your daily activities. It also tends to be there “all the time” at this stage. Usually, the pain is worse at night and can keep you from getting adequate sleep.

Typical medications at this point include NSAIDS (Non-Steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs) and drugs like gabapentin, that can help reduce nerve pain. It’s important to note that these drugs DO NOT heal neuropathy – but they do reduce the pain somewhat, and can allow you to go about life as usual for a while.

If you don’t do some things to stop and reverse neuropathy, then the problem will continue to decline, however.

Hitting rock bottom

In my 5 years helping people heal their neuropathy, I’ve seen way too many severe cases. At this point you will have constant numbness, tingling and burning in your feet, sometimes spreading up past the ankles. It can also appear in the hands and fingers. Sometimes there is no longer any feeling in the toes, leaving you susceptible to injury, and perhaps amputation of your toes. Oftentimes there are shooting “electrical shock” sensations as well.

Usually, if I meet someone who is at this point, they are pretty miserable. They are typically on more drugs like Lyrica, or even sometimes narcotic painkillers to get through life. It’s horrible.

I often talk about one of my patients who had gangrene in his toe when he came into our clinic. He had to have the toe amputated, and they didn’t even need to freeze it since he had no sensation whatsoever in his foot. It is very sad when someone gets to this stage, without knowing about all the things they can do to improve their neuropathy.

That’s why I started neurowellness. If I can prevent you from having your toes removed, then all the effort will be worth it!

Climbing back out

There are so many things you can do to improve things, and the earlier you start the better. It’s been amazing watching people continue to improve and get their lives back using the methods we use in our clinic. Just so you know, I’m working on an entire course that will walk you through all the steps we do in our clinic, to stop and reverse neuropathy with 98% success.

Until that’s completed though, you can get started with a copy of my FREE 3 neuropathy tips to learn 3 things you can do to feel better RIGHT NOW.  Don’t wait for things to get worse. Get started today!