Whole-Person Diabetic Neuropathy Care
You watch what you eat, monitor your blood sugar, and manage your diabetes with confidence. Yet complications like diabetic nerve pain can still happen despite your best efforts. Have hope. The condition, called diabetic neuropathy, doesn’t have to leave you on the sidelines. You can receive a quick and accurate diagnosis, better management options, and comforting treatments that will boost your quality of life.
Within our AdventHealth network, you’ll find expert endocrinology teams, ready to diagnose your diabetic nerve pain and ease your symptoms. AdventHealth Orlando, for example, is ranked #24 in the nation by U.S. News & World Report as the highest-ranked hospital in Florida for diabetes care and endocrinology. Our network has depth, and we are ready with diabetic neuropathy treatments to ease nerve-pain symptoms, diabetes educators to guide you, and compassionate counselors to empathize with and encourage you. It’s all part of our whole-person approach to treating your body, mind, and spirit.
Solving the Puzzle Of Your Diabetic Nerve Pain
- Tests to Diagnose Diabetic Neuropathy
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Diabetic neuropathy can be tricky for a non-specialist to diagnosis, because the symptoms vary case by case. If you’re in pain, you want to avoid unnecessary appointments and travel. The endocrinologists at AdventHealth comfort people with this complication every single day. We’re skilled at listening, recognizing neuropathy symptoms, and analyzing your glucose-monitoring history, because you deserve to feel better sooner. With the help of our neurology team, we may conduct these pain-free muscle strength and reflex tests:
- Electromyography (EMG). Measures the mild electrical effect on your muscles.
- Filament Test. Uses a soft nylon fiber to gauge your sensitivity to touch.
- Nerve Conduction Studies. Tracks how quickly mild electric currents take to travel along certain nerves.
- Quantitative Sensory Testing. Assesses how you respond to vibrations and changes in temperature.
Once our experienced experts have identified all the pieces of this condition, we can treat both cause and symptoms, giving you the tools you need for effective neuropathy pain management. It’s all so you can get back to doing all the things you enjoy.
- Types of Diabetic Neuropathy
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Symptoms of diabetic neuropathy can be startling. You might experience anything from sharp leg pains to numbness or dizziness to difficulty seeing. We encourage you to stay positive, and empower you to reach out in your time of need. Diagnosing neuropathy is the first step to helping treat your symptoms. To make diagnosis and treatment easier, diabetic neuropathy is boiled down to four different categories:
- Autonomic Neuropathy. This condition affects your heart, bladder, lungs, stomach, intestines, sex organs, and eyes.
- Mononeuropathy causes pain in a single nerve usually in the torso, legs, or face.
- Peripheral Neuropathy. The most diagnosed complication, it includes pain or numbness in your feet and legs, spreading to your hands and arms.
- Radiculoplexus Neuropathy (diabetic amyotrophy). This involves pain in the hips, thighs, and buttocks and atrophies muscles in your legs.
- Improved Neuropathy Pain Management Through Breakthrough Research
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Diabetic neuropathy isn’t reversible, but it is treatable. We’re here to help ease your diabetic nerve pain and support your body with a range of medications that manage complications, relieve symptoms, restore function to nerves, and slow the progression of the disease. The best way to prevent this condition is to monitor your blood-sugar levels, eat well, avoid smoking, and be proactive about meeting with an endocrinologist. We’ll work with you one-on-one, guiding you on a path to better diabetic neuropathy pain management and care.
Education is the first step to taking control of your diabetes. You’re already here, taking that step, and we both applaud you and are here to continue helping. In an effort to support your initiative in diabetes management, we are committed to improving our solutions with continued research. We participate in national studies for diabetes management at our Translational Research Institute (TRI) for Metabolism and Diabetes in Florida, working to give you and all future generations the chance to enjoy healthier, pain-free lives.
Diabetes Care You Can Count On
You’ve got this, because you’ve got us. Get the expert guidance and support you need to manage your diabetes and live a happier, healthier life.