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Diabetic neuropathy

  
Juancar
09/10/2025 7:20 p.m.

Hello, I write this message to talk about neuropathy and how it can be felt in general when the cause is due to diabetes, since I have been suffering quite strange neuropathy for a few months and in theory I am not diabetic and my glucose levels are not high (although on occasion in analysis carried out a few years ago I have sporadically had the levels in the lowest area of ​​prediabets, but when improving diet and exercise they quicknormality), but since it is common to read that most of the cases of neuropathy are caused by diabetes, I wantedGlycosylated immunoglobulin have always been and are far from diabetes values, although on occasion they have sporadically come out right in the lowest prediabetes zone).

Basically, the neuropathy that I have been suffering for a few months is felt with quite strong punctures mainly on the soles of the feet, but also in other areas of the body such as bladder and penis (or even, very isolated, I have also noticed punctures in other places such as eyes), in addition to burning (mainly on the soles of the feet, bladder and penis).Apart from these sensations, what I have noticed is that the problem usually appears acute every so often (as in batches or shoots) and when it makes it typically last a couple of weeks until it leaves (at least in its most acute form, because after time I can notice it very sporadically, like a sudden puncture at some point every day and so on).

The problem is not simply the pain that is felt (that is the least, although it is quite painful and annoying, especially in sensitive areas like the ones I said), the problem is that after each episode it shows that there has been some loss of sensitivity (that's why I suppose it hurts so much, because the nerves are dying), although when the problem ceases for a while (in my case, it has come and come every several months)Of the lost sensitivity, but I do not believe that the recovered sensitivity has been total (in particular, on the soles of the feet I would say that I have lost a more or less appreciable amount of superficial sensitivity, since although it continues to have sensitivity and notice things like cold and heat, I am sure that this sensitivity is decreased today).

In summary, I do not know if you think that diabetic neuropathy (of thin fibers) can resemble this picture (with multiple areas at the same time, acute episodes that come and go even if my diet and my habits are quite healthy and have the glucose levels at the normal range, etc.) or if, on the contrary, the diabetic neuropathies in your experience(For example, more continuously over time without appearing suddenly as in shoots, causing loss of sensitivity in a more gradual and not so sudden way in just a few months, etc.).

Greetings and thank you very much in advance for your answers.

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Ruthbia
09/11/2025 8:04 p.m.

Well just tell yourself that you go to vascular and check you.

In Oncologist he told me that with cold gloves and socks, there are studies that show that neuropathies are relieved and stop.In my case, chemotherapy can produce them and being diabetic, the safest thing is that they stay.

All cancer patients who suffer from their sensitivity losses.

Lada enero 2015.
Uso Toujeo y Novorapid.

  
Juancar
09/11/2025 8:44 p.m.


@Ruthbia said:

Well just tell yourself that you go to vascular and check you.

In Oncologist he told me that with cold gloves and socks, there are studies that show that neuropathies are relieved and stop.In my case, chemotherapy can produce them and being diabetic, the safest thing is that they stay.

All cancer patients who suffer from their sensitivity losses.

Thanks for the message.I have already gone and have no idea: thin fiber neuropathies are not even easy to diagnose through tests because they typically require a skin biopsy that is not easy to achieve in many hospitals and that also also requires a good choice of the area and a preparation, although with so notorious symptoms for the patient as punctures, burning and loss of sensitivity because everything points to that type of nervous affectationSo confirm it reliably.

The problem of neuropathies in general is quite complex to understand (unless you have a clear disease, such as diabetes) and today there is practically no treatment if the cause is not something like a possible nutritional deficiency or even some known and easily diagnostible autoimmune disease (which, in many occasionsto identify the possible problem and/or other possible aggravating ones to prevent it from being active producing damage.

In your case, have you had neuropathy for chemotherapy or diabetes?

PS: I hope your treatment is as successful as possible and that you can recover very soon too.

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Maguina
09/11/2025 11:33 p.m.


Juancar said:
@Juancar said:

Ruthbia said:
@Ruthbiasaid:

Well just tell yourself that you go to vascular and check you.

In Oncologist he told me that with cold gloves and socks, there are studies that show that neuropathies are relieved and stop.In my case, chemotherapy can produce them and being diabetic, the safest thing is that they stay.

All cancer patients who suffer from their sensitivity losses.


Thanks for the message.I have already gone and have no idea: thin fiber neuropathies are not even easy to diagnose through tests because they typically require a skin biopsy that is not easy to achieve in many hospitals and that also also requires a good choice of the area and a preparation, although with so notorious symptoms for the patient as punctures, burning and loss of sensitivity because everything points to that type of nervous affectationSo confirm it reliably.

The problem of neuropathies in general is quite complex to understand (unless you have a clear disease, such as diabetes) and today there is practically no treatment if the cause is not something like a possible nutritional deficiency or even some known and easily diagnostible autoimmune disease (which, in many occasionsto identify the possible problem and/or other possible aggravating ones to prevent it from being active producing damage.

In your case, have you had neuropathy for chemotherapy or diabetes?

PS: I hope your treatment is as successful as possible and that you can recover very soon too.

The eyes does not fit what I am going to say: my partner has nerves damaged by channel stenosis and does have pain in bladder, penis, legs and feet.

Pancreatectomía subtotal en febrero del 2020. Prediabetes en 2021. Diabética sin medicación de septiembre del 2024 hasta agosto del 2025. Glicosilada 7,8% el 5 de agosto del 2025. 18u toujeo y 4-4-4 aprida

  
Juancar
09/12/2025 6:49 a.m.


Maguina said:
@Maguina said:

Juancar said:
Juancarsaid:
@Juancarsaid:
Ruthbia said:
Ruthbia said:
Ruthbiasaid:
@Ruthbiasaid:

Well just tell yourself that you go to vascular and check you.

In Oncologist he told me that with cold gloves and socks, there are studies that show that neuropathies are relieved and stop.In my case, chemotherapy can produce them and being diabetic, the safest thing is that they stay.

All cancer patients who suffer from their sensitivity losses.


Thanks for the message.I have already gone and have no idea: thin fiber neuropathies are not even easy to diagnose through tests because they typically require a skin biopsy that is not easy to achieve in many hospitals and that also also requires a good choice of the area and a preparation, although with so notorious symptoms for the patient as punctures, burning and loss of sensitivity because everything points to that type of nervous affectationSo confirm it reliably.

The problem of neuropathies in general is quite complex to understand (unless you have a clear disease, such as diabetes) and today there is practically no treatment if the cause is not something like a possible nutritional deficiency or even some known and easily diagnostible autoimmune disease (which, in many occasionsto identify the possible problem and/or other possible aggravating ones to prevent it from being active producing damage.

In your case, have you had neuropathy for chemotherapy or diabetes?

PS: I hope your treatment is as successful as possible and that you can recover very soon too.


The eyes does not fit what I am going to say: my partner has nerves damaged by channel stenosis and does have pain in bladder, penis, legs and feet.
Yes, a possible relationship with vértebra problems is also something that can lead to symptoms of this type, although in my personal case they have also made resonances and have not found anything like that, while as you say I have also noticed symptoms in other more higher places (although in these other sites the punctures have been very fleeting and sporadic, but I have clearly noticed them and they feel similar to those of the lower trainthat being related and caused by the same subject).

As for another possible difference with diabetes, I have been reading scientific articles and what they say is that when the cause of neuropathy is diabetes, the normal thing is also that it has already attacked and left some other thing touched (for example, renal function and/or any other part of the body), while when there is nothing more touched and the only existing problem is neuropathyin glucose levels but with other problems (some of them still without knowing, which would be idiopathic neuropathy).

Even so, I suppose that if someone has non -diabetic neuropathy, they have to be careful with glucose, because it would be possible that blood glucose levels that for the rest of the world are considered normal in their case.Different thing (what I say I have not read anywhere but it is something that I am thinking and as such is speculative, but in principle I think it can make sense).

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Maguina
09/12/2025 11:48 a.m.


@Juancar said:

Maguinasaid:
@Maguinasaid:
Juancarsaid:
Juancarsaid:
@Juancarsaid:
Ruthbiasaid:
Ruthbiasaid:
Ruthbiasaid:
@Ruthbiasaid:

Well just tell yourself that you go to vascular and check you.

In Oncologist he told me that with cold gloves and socks, there are studies that show that neuropathies are relieved and stop.In my case, chemotherapy can produce them and being diabetic, the safest thing is that they stay.

All cancer patients who suffer from their sensitivity losses.


Thanks for the message.I have already gone and have no idea: thin fiber neuropathies are not even easy to diagnose through tests because they typically require a skin biopsy that is not easy to achieve in many hospitals and that also also requires a good choice of the area and a preparation, although with so notorious symptoms for the patient as punctures, burning and loss of sensitivity because everything points to that type of nervous affectationSo confirm it reliably.

The problem of neuropathies in general is quite complex to understand (unless you have a clear disease, such as diabetes) and today there is practically no treatment if the cause is not something like a possible nutritional deficiency or even some known and easily diagnostible autoimmune disease (which, in many occasionsto identify the possible problem and/or other possible aggravating ones to prevent it from being active producing damage.

In your case, have you had neuropathy for chemotherapy or diabetes?

PS: I hope your treatment is as successful as possible and that you can recover very soon too.


The eyes does not fit what I am going to say: my partner has nerves damaged by channel stenosis and does have pain in bladder, penis, legs and feet.
Yes, a possible relationship with vértebra problems is also something that can lead to symptoms of this type, although in my personal case they have also made resonances and have not found anything like that, while as you say I have also noticed symptoms in other more higher places (although in these other sites the punctures have been very fleeting and sporadic, but I have clearly noticed them and they feel similar to those of the lower trainthat being related and caused by the same subject).

As for another possible difference with diabetes, I have been reading scientific articles and what they say is that when the cause of neuropathy is diabetes, the normal thing is also that it has already attacked and left some other thing touched (for example, renal function and/or any other part of the body), while when there is nothing more touched and the only existing problem is neuropathyin glucose levels but with other problems (some of them still without knowing, which would be idiopathic neuropathy).

Even so, I suppose that if someone has non -diabetic neuropathy, they have to be careful with glucose, because it would be possible that blood glucose levels that for the rest of the world are considered normal in their case.Different thing (what I say I have not read anywhere but it is something that I am thinking and as such is speculative, but in principle I think it can make sense).

I supposed they had looked at it, but just in case ...

A move uncertainty, I'm sorry.I hope you don't go to anymore and give you what you have.Much encouragement and a hug!

Pancreatectomía subtotal en febrero del 2020. Prediabetes en 2021. Diabética sin medicación de septiembre del 2024 hasta agosto del 2025. Glicosilada 7,8% el 5 de agosto del 2025. 18u toujeo y 4-4-4 aprida

  
Ruthbia
09/12/2025 2:31 p.m.

@Juancar I have not started the treatment yet, the oncologist in the review told me the side effects.

If they get me, they will be chemotherapy.In 10 years of diabetics, I have no effect.

Lada enero 2015.
Uso Toujeo y Novorapid.

  
Juancar
09/12/2025 7:02 p.m.


@Maguina said:

@Juancarsaid:
Maguinasaid:
@Maguinasaid:
Juancarsaid:
Juancarsaid:
@Juancarsaid:
Ruthbiasaid:
Ruthbiasaid:
Ruthbiasaid:
@Ruthbiasaid:

Well just tell yourself that you go to vascular and check you.

In Oncologist he told me that with cold gloves and socks, there are studies that show that neuropathies are relieved and stop.In my case, chemotherapy can produce them and being diabetic, the safest thing is that they stay.

All cancer patients who suffer from their sensitivity losses.


Thanks for the message.I have already gone and have no idea: thin fiber neuropathies are not even easy to diagnose through tests because they typically require a skin biopsy that is not easy to achieve in many hospitals and that also also requires a good choice of the area and a preparation, although with so notorious symptoms for the patient as punctures, burning and loss of sensitivity because everything points to that type of nervous affectationSo confirm it reliably.

The problem of neuropathies in general is quite complex to understand (unless you have a clear disease, such as diabetes) and today there is practically no treatment if the cause is not something like a possible nutritional deficiency or even some known and easily diagnostible autoimmune disease (which, in many occasionsto identify the possible problem and/or other possible aggravating ones to prevent it from being active producing damage.

In your case, have you had neuropathy for chemotherapy or diabetes?

PS: I hope your treatment is as successful as possible and that you can recover very soon too.


The eyes does not fit what I am going to say: my partner has nerves damaged by channel stenosis and does have pain in bladder, penis, legs and feet.
Yes, a possible relationship with vértebra problems is also something that can lead to symptoms of this type, although in my personal case they have also made resonances and have not found anything like that, while as you say I have also noticed symptoms in other more higher places (although in these other sites the punctures have been very fleeting and sporadic, but I have clearly noticed them and they feel similar to those of the lower trainthat being related and caused by the same subject).

As for another possible difference with diabetes, I have been reading scientific articles and what they say is that when the cause of neuropathy is diabetes, the normal thing is also that it has already attacked and left some other thing touched (for example, renal function and/or any other part of the body), while when there is nothing more touched and the only existing problem is neuropathyin glucose levels but with other problems (some of them still without knowing, which would be idiopathic neuropathy).

Even so, I suppose that if someone has non -diabetic neuropathy, they have to be careful with glucose, because it would be possible that blood glucose levels that for the rest of the world are considered normal in their case.Different thing (what I say I have not read anywhere but it is something that I am thinking and as such is speculative, but in principle I think it can make sense).


I supposed they had looked at it, but just in case ...

A move uncertainty, I'm sorry.I hope you don't go to anymore and give you what you have.Much encouragement and a hug!

Yes, very good note because this neuropathy is complex and what you have said can also be behind it in other people.

Thank you very much and I hope everything goes as well as possible for you too.

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Juancar
09/12/2025 7:04 p.m.


Ruthbia said:
@Ruthbia said:

@JuancarI have not started the treatment, the oncologist in the review told me the side effects.

If they get me, they will be chemotherapy.In 10 years of diabetics, I have no effect.

Thank you very much @ruthbia for the details and I hope your treatment is a success.

A lot of encouragement!

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