What does diabetes has to do with foot pain?!

You say that you have "pain in my foot, ankle and all the way to half my calf" What is important to know is what type of pain are you experiencing. Is is numbness and tingling, is it sharp, stabbing pain, or is it a dull aching pain?

Diabetics do, indeed, suffer from foot pain called nueropathy. Nueropathy can occur in any extremity of the body (peripheral nueropathy) as well as in any organ of the body (autonomic nueropathy) It is caused by the sugar in the blood which in effect closes down the blood supply to the nerves. When the nerves die off in the feet, they at first feel numb. Then the pain increases an the patient typically will feel what they describe as intense "pins and needles' along with the numbness.

As painful as this numbness and pins and needles are, that is just half the issue with foot neuropathy. Dry skin can split, injuries can occur, burns, blisters, infection -- and because the foot or feet or numb, the patient does not even realize this is happening. Because of the decrease blood supply to those areas, injuries of any kind are very difficult to heal. What begins as a small blister can become at least debilitating and at most life threatening within a short time.

If you even think you may have diabetes, you need to get to your physician as soon as possible - yesterday if possible. The sooner you doctor gets to work on your condition the better.

Note: low carb diets can actually BEAT diabetes. Read the book, "Diabetes Solutions" by Dr. Richard Bernstein. It saved my husband's life. I have no affiliation with Dr. B. Reading his book set me on the road to learn all about low carbohydrate diets and how that type of diet can truly beat diabetes. If you already have diabetes and are taking insulin or other blood sugar control medications, check with your doc before going on low carb diets. Lowering your carb intake will also lower your blood sugar.

When someone is having diabetes, his blood sugar level tend to be high most of the time, a condition known as hyperglycemia. If this elevated blood glucose level is level untreated over a long period of time, it will cause multiple forms of diabetic health complications. If you are suffering from the numbness or pain in your foot, most probably you are having one of the diabetic neuropathies which is the degeneration of the nerves in your lower body.

How high blood sugar cause diabetic neuropathies? Try to imagine there 2 fine tubes, Tube A is constantly flown with high concentration glucose syrup while Tube B is flown with mild sugar water. Let the system flown for hours or days and then you stop the flow and cut through a dissection for in the middle of each tube. You can notice there is a thick layer of sticky sugar on the inner wall of Tube A.

If you are a long term diabetic, then chances are very high the blood vessels, especially those near the lower part of your feet are covered with a layer of sugar coating which prevents the proper exchange of the substances carried by the blood. When the cells around that area do not get enough supply of nutrients and the toxic wastes cannot be transported out due to the blocked pores of the capillary wall, the cells will start to degenerate and slowly become inactive or die off.

Since nerve cells are the one of the most energy craving cells in the body, where there is not enough nutrients supply, it will either not generating enough electrical impulses (numbness) or it goes bizarre and generate signals or noises without any external stimulation which results in the pain you are suffering now.

The reason why diabetic neuropathies usually begins with the feet is because it is furthest away from the heart and the blow flow has to fight against the gravity to climb back up. This causes the blood flow in the feet run slower than other parts of the body. Slow flowing blood is easier for the glucose deposit to build up.

Diabetic neuropathies not only affect the feet, it can also affect other parts of the body which as fine tiny blood capillaries such as the eye and kidneys. If you are experiencing some blur vision or unknown discomfort at your back, you should really start to do something to reverse the process before it is too late.

http://www.diabeticneuropathies.org/

As far as I know, trouble with the feet only starts after you had serious diabetes for quite a while. Pain in the foot is certainly not the first symptom to cause you a lot of discomfort. So rather than jumping to conclusions, have the foot checked out. It does sound like you should, regardless of diabetes.

diabetes can lead to neuropathies and even gangrene. check with a doctor. if this is your only symptom you may have another problem

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