The following symptoms might grow in severity over the course of years or even decades. Medications such as briviact, xcopri, Pregabalin, and also lifestyle and diet changes to help keep blood sugars in check and promote weight loss are also beneficial. However, early detection can help stave off progression

1. Tingling or burning
Most nerve conditions are heralded by tingling or burning sensations. These feelings reflect the underlying and progressive damage to nerve tissue. The tingling sensation is often quite similar to what we feel when a limb “falls asleep”. However, it’s not subject to any predictable stimuli. Instead, the feeling can appear out of nowhere and last for an extended period.

2. Numbness
People whose symptoms begin with tingling and burning sensations often take numbness as a sign that things are getting better. However, this is actually a dangerous misunderstanding. The numb lack of sensation is a sign that damage to the nerves has progressed to the final stages. This also poses significant additional risks for the diabetic. People who’ve lost feeling in an extremity often sustain injuries, sores, and even tissue necrosis without ever noticing it’s happening

3. Sharp pain or cramping in the legs and feet
Sharp pain along with cramping in extremities isn’t a very enjoyable situation. However, it’s good in the sense that this can be one of the best warning signs for diabetic neuropathy. As with most symptoms, these issues come about due to large-scale nerve damage. The extremities are often most at risk due to an association with diabetes and impaired circulation. The diabetic’s blood isn’t pumped to or from areas further away from the heart as it would be in a healthy individual. The discomfort from this symptom is often severe enough to convince people to seek medical treatment. By doing so they’re often able to get a proper diagnosis faster than is typically seen with more subtle symptoms

4. Increased sensitivity to touch
Early on, nerve damage with diabetes can manifest as a pronounced sensitivity when an area of the body is touched. This sensitivity can manifest almost anywhere on the body. But because of the aforementioned circulatory issues we typically see this occur in the hands, feet or legs. This is one of the more difficult to diagnose symptoms. The largest problem is that sensitivity usually isn’t a severe enough issue for someone to seek medical attention. The longer someone waits to have this symptom looked at the greater the chance of it progressing to pain or loss of feeling

5. Foot issues
We see the problem with circulation all too often when looking at a diabetic’s feet. Hands can be at risk as well. But we spend so much time working with our fingers that it’s usually easy to notice a problem in the early stages. However, we usually have some sort of covering over our feet and toes. This makes it easy to miss small foot ulcers, infections, and joint pain. When combined with a loss of sensation it’s easy for these seemingly minor issues to become a major problem. In fact, it’s quite common for diabetics experiencing these symptoms to lose a toe or even the entire foot. This largely happens when damaged areas become infected. This infection can spread, and the injury itself may even become necrotic. Untreated dead tissue is a severe health hazard even for people in otherwise perfect health. It’s even more so for a diabetic