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Painful Nerve damage with Diabetes.
Dr Prashant Vas, Consultant Endocrinologist and Diabetologist talks about painful diabetic neuropathy. Nerve damage or Diabetic Neuropathy causes numbness and loss of sensation. He explains that pain occurs in 1 in 5 of people with diabetic nerve damage. He says that symptoms are in the feet and possible legs but can also happen in the hands. Sometimes people talk about tingling or burning or cramps pain together with numbness.
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Neuropathic pain or painful diabetic neuropathy is present in nearly one in five of people who have nerve damage because of diabetes. Usually the nerve pain is in both the legs, sometimes can travel up the legs and in a proportion of patients also affect their hands. The symptoms can be mild to extremely disabling and typically the symptoms are worse at night, but at least you are aware of them more at night. Symptoms include tingling, burning, a sensation of crawling, lancinating pain or even cramps. Often alongside this one would get a feeling of numbness in both feet. Likewise, the symptoms would be similar in the hands.
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