Wife Mary, (44, IDDM since childhood) is experiencing increasing loss of
feeling in her hands and feet, which we understand to be due to
deterioration of blood circulation.
Does anyone have suggestions for ways to improve this situation, at least
temporarily? Also, things to avoid?
Harry and Mary Ellery ell…@beta.delphi.com
Is she staying physically active, including aerobic walking,
etc? My docs have always said my walking helps avoid such
things, and I haven’t experienced foot "burning" and "tingling"
in several years, though I did when first diagnosed with
diabetes.
My wife used to work for a foot doctor (Podiatrist?) who told
her many times to encourage me to keep walking and keep the
feet and limbs busy to avoid or postpone problems.
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Generally, pheriphal neuroapthy is NOT related to blood circulation
but rather to nerve damage. And generally, neutoapathy is what the
"sleeping hands and feet" in diabetics is related to.
Improvement? Right now there is some very promising research going
on but it’s still experimental. Things to avoid? High blood sugar
levels.
HARRY ELLERY (ell…@beta.delphi.com) wrote:
: Wife Mary, (44, IDDM since childhood) is experiencing increasing loss of
: feeling in her hands and feet, which we understand to be due to
: deterioration of blood circulation.
: Does anyone have suggestions for ways to improve this situation, at least
: temporarily? Also, things to avoid?
: Harry and Mary Ellery ell…@beta.delphi.com
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**** cjol…@iac.net <Carl Jolley>
**** All opinions are my own and not necessarily those of my employer ****
In article <48t384$…@little-miami.iac.net>, cjol…@iac.net (Carl Jolley) writes:
=Generally, pheriphal neuroapthy is NOT related to blood circulation
=but rather to nerve damage. And generally, neutoapathy is what the
="sleeping hands and feet" in diabetics is related to.
=
=Improvement? Right now there is some very promising research going
=on but it’s still experimental. Things to avoid? High blood sugar
=levels.
Even without that experimental therapy, if the neuropathy is mild enough and
recent enough, it may be, to some extent anyway, reversible via better control
of blood sugar levels.
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