Do low and high blood sugar both cause neuropathy?

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Do low and high blood sugar both cause neuropathy

Answer 1

Diabetic neuropathies are a family of nerve disorders caused by diabetes. People with diabetes can, over time, have damage to nerves throughout the body. Neuropathies lead to numbness and sometimes pain and weakness in the hands, arms, feet, and legs. Problems may also occur in every organ system, including the digestive tract, heart, and sex organs. People with diabetes can develop nerve problems at any time, but the longer a person has diabetes, the greater the risk.

An estimated 50 percent of those with diabetes have some form of neuropathy, but not all with neuropathy have symptoms. The highest rates of neuropathy are among people who have had the disease for at least 25 years.

Diabetic neuropathy also appears to be more common in people who have had problems controlling their blood glucose levels, in those with high levels of blood fat and blood pressure, in overweight people, and in people over the age of 40. The most common type is peripheral neuropathy, also called distal symmetric neuropathy, which affects the arms and legs.

For more information check this website: http://diabetes.niddk.nih.gov/dm/pubs/neuropathies/

As a person with severe neuropathy that does NOT have diabetes, I have struggled with this unknown disease for 10 years. So, you do not have to be diabetic to have neuropathy, but you are almost certain to have neuropathy if you ARE diabetic. Diabetes is a disease in which blood glucose levels are above normal. Most of the food we eat is turned into glucose, or sugar, for our bodies to use for energy. The pancreas, an organ that lies near the stomach, makes a hormone called insulin to help glucose get into the cells of our bodies. When you have diabetes, your body either doesn't make enough insulin or can't use its own insulin as well as it should. This causes sugar to build up in your blood. This then attacks the thin covering of the nerve fibers, and leads the way to neuropathy.

My, my, you got a medical lecture, and I'll bet you really didn't want that, did you!?

Answer 2

High blood sugars cause neuropathy. Low blood sugars cause the body to start shutting down the sites where it sends sugar and saves it for the necessary sites such as heart and brain and lungs. If it continues to get lower the brain will exhibit signs of not being fed, with confusion a common symptom and can progress to unconsciousness with insulin shock and if left untreated to actual death...So low blood sugars cause immediate problems long before the long term effects of neuropathy. Yes low blood sugars can also cause neuropathy but it is unlikely that a person could ever have neuropathy as a result of low blood sugars. Remember that and the important thing is that if your sugars are under good control you are more likely to have lows. That is the aim .. the good control.

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Answer 5

Hyper but not hypo glycemia is linked to neuropathy although neuropathy may develop in the absence of diabetes. Hypoglycemia in a non diabetic is actually rare and most comonly when it is discussed it is actually an improper term. Neuropathy occurs in diabetics as glucose is allowed into nerve cells in the absence of insulin but it is not metabolized correctly resulting in swelling of the nerve cell and neuropathy. Efforts to prevent this date back several decades but to date have been ineffective although there are some treatment options for those who suffer with this.

Answer 6

high blood sugar is recognised as the first cause of diabetic neuropathy.
still, there are atypical forms of neuropathy. for instance, the acute painful diabetic neuropathy that appears not long after the diagnosis of diabetes, after the initiation of insulin, and it's caused by the sudden drop in glicemias. it is reversible
The alternation of hyper and hipoglicemias can cause chronic diabetic neuropathy, some authors say that in order to control the symptoms the stability of BG is more important than the level of BG.

Answer 7

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Answer 8

The side effects of diabetes occur even in the best controlled patients unfortunately. Diabetic neuropathy is usually a numbness in the lower extremities with loss of sensation.

Answer 9

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Answer 10

When blood sugars are too high the cells are starved and if the blood sugars are too low the cells are starved. As long as the glucose can't get to the cells to provide energy the cell will die, no matter what the reason is.