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Strategies to Fight Nerve Pain
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MediZine's Healthy Living Third Quarter 2006
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If you’re one of the 10.5 million Americans with diabetes-related peripheral neuropathy (nerve damage), you may have had only limited success in vanquishing the pain. Now there are formal guidelines for diagnosis and management, and two medications, duloxetine and pregabalin, to treat the discomfort.
“In the past, doctors may not have made the connection between pain complaints and diabetes,” says B. Elliot Cole, M.D., M.P.A., executive director of the American Society of Pain Educators. “Now patients can expect physicians to be more sensitive to the fact that nerve damage can lead to painful conditions; patients can expect better diagnoses and more coherent care for their pain.”
Nothing is better for pain prevention than controlling the underlying cause. So, check your blood sugar regularly and keep it close to normal; follow a low-glycemic diet; exercise; care for your feet and wounds properly; and report tingles, aches and pains to your doctor.
Reversing Nerve Damage
All the Nerve
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