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Charles  Walunywa
07/29/09

How can treat this pain. It is as if this write up is for me.

I am diabetic and suffering from what I now understand to be diabetic distal symmetric polyneuropathy. I have had a lower back pain for over 10 yrs. recently ( a year or so ago) I starteed feeling numbness in my feet and now I can ffeel it in the arm as well. The pain is excruciating especially if…

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