my husband has had severe toe numbness for months now the doctor has given him elavil it did not work. he can't touch any of the toes without yelling out in pain. it is obvisously there is a problem. he was diagnosted borderline diabectic. he was a 125 which the dr. said was on the border. also just out of the blue he started having high blood pressure. like 210/200, after 3 hours the ems workers got it down to 180/120. during this he was on his job, needless to say he came home. the next moening i was able to get my family dr. to see him, he never realy gave any answers, just that his blood work did shoe a bacteria infection in his blood stream, he had , had a bout with pnuemonia the winter before and did not go to the dr. the dr. said the infection came from that. we are desperate for help. he is unable to walk, and god forbid anyone step or he just tap his toes on anything and he starts yelling to the point of tears. this is a man who has never been sick. he is 54 years old. and i as his wife of 35 years am scared to death. i am convinced it is the diabetes. can anyone tell me what type of dr. he needs. i have him an appt. with some internal medicine drs. but it will be sept. before he can get in. he is missing work and we are on the edge of loosing everything we have. i can't find work anywhere, we live in a very small town in south carolina and there is nothing out there. we also have our only grandbaby  and daughter living with us, my daughter is in college doing something positive with her life finally. please if anyone can help i would be forever grateful.