diabetes
Pain Management
The best treatment for nerve pain, ultimately, is to manage your diabetes
well. In fact, a major study by the American Diabetes
Association in 2006 showed that strict blood glucose control with intensive insulin therapy lowered the chances of having symptoms of peripheral neuropathy - tingling, burning, and pain - by 64%. While you can't control whether or not you get diabetic nerve pain, you can help control your glucose levels with diet, exercise, and mediations if you need them.
Patient was instructed on pain management. Diabetes
pain usually strikes first in the hands and feet. A common pain syndrome from diabetes
is described as
Patient was instructed on pain management. Diabetes
alters sensation in the smallest nerves, which happen to lie at the end of the peripheral nervous system, in the hands and feet. Diabetes
starves these tiny nerves. As a result the nervous system becomes confused about what is and isn
Patient was instructed on pain management. Diabetes
can destroy small blood vessels, which in turn can damage the nervous system, and these damaged nerves can cause pain. The pain arises from the nerves that are injured or malfunctioning that can be from the tip of the toe to the brain.