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How To Stop Stinging In Feet Due To Diagnostic Neuropathy?
My husband has diagnostic neuropathy in his feet and it burns like a thousand bees are stinging him on the foot. He has taken gabapentin 3600 mgs and lyrica with the Gabapentin. And it did not work and now he is on cymbalta and oxytocin is not working either Is there a surgery where they can stop the nerves from burning by deadening the nerves and he doesn t care if he has no feeling after the surgery . This is a last resort for him. Thank you so very much. God Bless to you Andrea
Mon, 18 Jun 2018
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It would be diabetic neuropathy. Each treatment for it other than very high doses of narcotics has only about a 1 in 4 possibility of working. At all. It is hard to treat. Other drugs with novocaine like effects like lidocaine patches or creme or amitryptiline are other possibilities but they do not have a high likelihood of working either. It is a tough disorder. Sometimes if the diabetes is really badly treated, getting the sugar below 300 will change it. Mostly, it is the length of time one has had diabetes more than the amount of control of it that matters and getting diabetes under good control isn't helpful.
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It would be diabetic neuropathy. Each treatment for it other than very high doses of narcotics has only about a 1 in 4 possibility of working. At all. It is hard to treat. Other drugs with novocaine like effects like lidocaine patches or creme or amitryptiline are other possibilities but they do not have a high likelihood of working either. It is a tough disorder. Sometimes if the diabetes is really badly treated, getting the sugar below 300 will change it. Mostly, it is the length of time one has had diabetes more than the amount of control of it that matters and getting diabetes under good control isn't helpful.
Hope I have answered your query. Let me know if I can assist you further.
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