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Painful Diabetes

Individuals along with the mass population are very aware that diabetes is a disease that is reaching epidemic proportions, but the mass population is clueless to the changes in an individual’s lifestyle. All diabetes, pre-diabetes, type-1 diabetes, type-2 diabetes, and type-3 diabetes is a disease that kills indiscriminately. Science has come a very long way in understanding the diabetic treatment, but they are far from a final cure for diabetes. This is a disease that has inflicted individuals for many centuries and the experimentations continue.

Neuropathy comes in many forms and effects diabetics in various painful ways. Individuals find late at night they are unable to become comfortable, toss, and turn until morning. The individual’s feet, toes, and legs feel like they are burning with sharp, stark pain shooting through the legs. These sensations are common and the individual receiving a diagnosis of diabetes learns how to continue living through this agonizing pain.

Neuropathy is an unusual development of diabetes through the nervous system and at times is extremely painful and uncomfortable. The rather strangeness of this particular side effect is that when it does begin is starts from the toes and feet then working its way up the leg. When neuropathy goes untreated it will gradually work its way upward and in time will affect the hands and fingers with the same tingling and burning sensation.

Individuals receiving a diagnosis of diabetes understand that the lifestyle they are about to embark upon is for the rest of their life. The constant bombardment and the years of the individual battling back do however take it toll. The medical community still is unaware of what the cause of diabetic neuropathy is even though this is a focus of attention. Many in the medical community quietly believe the diabetes causes damage to the small capillaries and blood vessels over time, but this theory has yet to be proven, so speculation prevails for the moment.

Medical physicians and other in the medical community believe the cause of diabetic neuropathy is a cause and effect from the increase in the blood sugar level and this constant internal beating wears down the nerve tissues. The entire medical community does believe that through controlling the blood sugar level from the two extremes which are high blood sugar levels and low blood sugar levels. Through diabetes research much good and innovative ways for the treatment of diabetes is successful.

Individuals with diabetic neuropathies understand that though there is diabetes medication to help keep the diabetes in balance, there is no cure. Some of the known medication that the medical physician prescribes is the following:

1 Cymbalta duloxetine HCI, for diabetic peripheral neuropathy

2 Amitriptyline, Desipramine, and Nortriptyline

3 Gabapentin or Neurontin, for diabetic painful neuropathy

4 Tegretol and Dilantin, for seizures

5 Lidocaine, Canitine, and Annodyne, for common seizures

Individual who wishes to control the painful peripheral neuropathy without the help of a medical prescription needs to consider a few possibilities. Making a final decision will come later. Keep the blood sugar in control is first and foremost to a successful future. The other important factors to consider before rejecting a medical prescription are:

1 Exercise at least half an hour in the morning and evening

2 Change the diet to a newer diabetes diet with diabetes meal planning

3 Red pepper powder mixed with baby powder, insert in socks

4 Alpha Lipoic acid is an effective anti-oxidant

5 Primrose oil, 360mg per day, but not long-term

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