Are Numb Toes A Symptom Of Diabetes?
- Diabetic Neuropathies
- What Is It? & Symptoms
- Diagnosis & Expected Duration
- Prevention & Treatment
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What Is It?
Diabetic neuropathies include several nerve disorders that affect people with diabetes.
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Peripheral neuropathy - This is the most common type of diabetic neuropathy, affecting the longest nerves in your body. These nerves are part of your peripheral nervous system, the network of nerves that carry signals from your brain and spinal cord to the rest of your body and back. The most common symptoms of peripheral neuropathy are numbness or pain in the...
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