Tingling Sensation in Right Calf

[mpgutierrez]

I'm a 26 year old, type-2 diabetic male who's taking byetta, metformin, simvastatin, and enalapril. I weight about 230 and am about 5'8 and I've been good for the most part about my diet and exercise and my last a1C was under 6.

But a few weeks ago during the morning, after I had eaten breakfast and taken my byetta and meds, I drove for an hour and stop to get a snack to eat. When I left my car and stood up it felt as if I stepped something sharp. There wasn't anything there and I shook the pain away.

Maybe 5 hours later, I realized that my lower right calf of my leg was numb. Under my kneecap and above my feet. It was numb as if I sat down Indian style for a long time. The numbing lasted for about 2 days and went away. But the problem now is that the same area gets tingly but never the same numbness as before. I don't know if it's diabetic neuropathy but I'm going to address it when I see my Endo. in a few weeks. But I've been trying to figure what it is.

Any help would be truly helpful.

[Dan Gato]

Hi MPG,
Welcome to the forums ! :shakehand

Your dr can prescribe some meds to help you.
there are a few meds that help, keep reading the forums or do a search about it.
What I do as preventive is I take ALA-Alpha lipoic acid, it's over the counter & somewhat inexpensive.
don't sit in one position for too long
also, an aspirine 81mg can help with the blood circulation, I take one daily.

[slipperyelm]

If your A1c is under 6 and it was sudden onset, I'm doubting it is diabetic neuropathy.

[mpgutierrez]

If your A1c is under 6 and it was sudden onset, I'm doubting it is diabetic neuropathy.

So just regular neuropathy? Great. Do you think massages in the area will help at all?

[slipperyelm]

No idea. Do you think you may have a circulatory problem? Sure sounds like a good thing for the doctor to track down. They can check the popliteal and femoral pulses, check you reflexes, run Doppler scans to judge blood flow, run nerve conduction studies, graph out the area of tingling & numbness to see if that coincides with a known nerve, etc. Um, any chance you are a side sleeper and may be pressing on your hip or knee for hours on end every night? Does your car fit you? (My husband has problems when he drives our little Kia for too long, He is 6'2" and that certain bend of the leg causes him pain. Is the numbness in only one muscle of the leg or doe it feel more extensive?---Could be lots of things, eh?

No need to answer my questions, because I can't help you based on the answers anyway. But those are some of the things to consider if you wish to find a possible cause. No doubt there are many other things that I would have no idea about. Doctor!