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Doing My Best
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Plan: LC/CancerRecovery
Stats: 170/135/130
BF:24%
Progress: 88%
Location: Nevada Desert, USA
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Neuropathy and other circulation disorders
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Peripheral neuropathy
Overview
By Mayo Clinic Staff
Peripheral neuropathy, a result of damage to your peripheral nerves, often causes weakness, numbness and pain, usually in your hands and feet. It can also affect other areas of your body.
Your peripheral nervous system sends information from your brain and spinal cord (central nervous system) to the rest of your body. Peripheral neuropathy can result from traumatic injuries, infections, metabolic problems, inherited causes and exposure to toxins. One of the most common causes is diabetes mellitus.
People with peripheral neuropathy generally describe the pain as stabbing, burning or tingling. In many cases, symptoms improve, especially if caused by a treatable condition.
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Although I have not been diagnosed with T2D, I have periodically had circulation issues, especially with the feet.
I come from a long paternal line of people with "sugar diabetes." Yes, that's what Texans called it when I was growing up. You got old, you got fat and you got IT. Although my own Pater was never diabetic, he had excruciating, burning pain in his feet long before it had the name. All the doctor could do for him was give him Oxy for the pain, which resulted eventually in dementia, followed by death.
Because of this history, I am super sensitive to my feet, how they feel. I never want to experience what my daddy did, and I have several tools I use to make sure my circulation keeps moving, so to speak.
I'm starting this thread so that we can share the various things we do and supplements we take which we feel serve us well in combating peripheral neuropathy, no matter what stage. |
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