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04-05-2006, 05:58 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Largo,FL
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| | | pins and needles
anyone here wake up and theyre hands and fingers feel like pins and needles or like you slept on your hand all night cause my fingers and hands been feeling funny and i was told its the neurapathy.my #'s after i eat are in the 200's and its been happening after a big night of drinking.i really cant imagine life with out going out to drink with freinds but if i got to i got to.it sucks.anyone else no if this is really neurapathy or not? |
04-05-2006, 06:09 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Cincinnati, OH
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| | | It sounds like neuropathy to me. Being in the 200s after you eat surely isn't helping. Have you ever tested while you drink and wake up in the middle of the night to test while drinking? You could be going high while drinking and that won't help either. What was your last A1C? I know they do have tests for neuropathy, unfortunately I don't know much about it.
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04-05-2006, 06:13 PM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Virginia
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Originally Posted by JediSkipdogg It sounds like neuropathy to me. | Yeah, me too. Can you tell us something about your treatment? What meds, etc.?
If you can get you numbers down consistantly you will, for sure, slow down the
neuropathy, and perhaps reverse it. |
04-05-2006, 06:28 PM
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I am a: Type 1.5 | | Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Orlando, FL
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| | I get it in my feet quite often, but I seem to be getting it a little less often. Maybe it's my imagination, maybe it's that I've been on the pump for about 8 weeks with tighter control or maybe it's the Topamax I'm taking...  |
04-05-2006, 06:40 PM
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Originally Posted by Cyborg but I seem to be getting it a little less often. | Great! Reversal of a complication is better than a good A1C! |
04-05-2006, 06:47 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Largo,FL
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| | | diagnosed as a t1 in september but been on honeymoon since oct so not on any meds but my #'s seem to be rising lately when i so much as slip up on food so it might be coming to its end. |
04-05-2006, 07:09 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Miami, Fl
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| | | Did u finally get an Endo?
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04-06-2006, 10:51 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Los Angeles
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| | | I would bet it's only a temporary result of uncontrolled BG levels. The reason I think this is that it seems WAY too short of a time between September and now to develop real full complications like neuropathy. I mean, I was in HORRIBLE control as a child, and it was only when I got out of my teens and adolescence that I'm like WHOA, let's get healthy with this diabetes thing, and I did a complete 180 on it, and I never developed any complications whatsoever.
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04-06-2006, 12:12 PM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Virginia
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Originally Posted by Rhino I would bet it's only a temporary result of uncontrolled BG levels. The reason I think this is that it seems WAY too short of a time between September and now to develop real full complications like neuropathy. | We all certainly hope so, but if you're a T2 you can go years running high before being DXed. And some people experience complications at much lower BG levels than others.
Certainly, the best approach is to get those levels under control and see if it goes away. |
04-06-2006, 06:24 PM
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| | I found my link to the ADA site with the info on Topamax and neuropathy. |
04-06-2006, 07:26 PM
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Originally Posted by Cyborg I found my link to the ADA site with the info on Topamax and neuropathy. | Interesting, an off-label use. |
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