“Do I have diabetes?”
I have felt inches, pins, tingling, and lately numbness in the feet, arms, fingers, and upper leg for over 10 years but I've never been hospitalized. I have taken tests once every year with negative results for diabetes. Could this be signs of fully blown diabetes or something else?
Male | 65 years old
Complaint duration: 6 to 10 years
Medications: None
Conditions: Healthy
1 Answer
Endocrinology-Diabetes|Endocrinology,Diabetes&MetabolismEndocrinology-Diabetes
Numbness and tingling are nonspecific symptoms that can signal a pinched nerve, a neurological disorder such as multiple sclerosis, neuropathy from diabetes, or neuropathy from b12 deficiency or from some other cause. You can have your primary care doc do a glucose tolerance test (Where you drink 75 g of glucose and then have your sugar checked at baseline, 30, 60 and 90 minutes later), and as long as that is normal, you should see a neurologist.
