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It is usually described as a glove-stocking distribution of numbness, sensory loss, dysesthesia and nighttime pain. The pain can feel like burning, pricking sensation, achy or dull. A pins and needles sensation is common. Loss of proprioception, the sense of where a limb is in space, is affected early.
Neurology. Proximal diabetic neuropathy, also known as diabetic amyotrophy, is a complication of diabetes mellitus that affects the nerves that supply the thighs, hips, buttocks and/or lower legs. Proximal diabetic neuropathy is a type of diabetic neuropathy characterized by muscle wasting, weakness, pain, or changes in sensation/numbness of ...
320.4 * Tuberculous meningitis ( 013.0 †) 320.5 * Meningococcal meningitis ( 036.0 †) 320.7 * Meningitis in other bacterial diseases classified elsewhere. 320.8 Meningitis due to other specified bacteria. 320.9 Meningitis due to unspecified bacterium. 321 * Meningitis due to other organisms.
Any condition resulting in decreased peripheral sensation, proprioception, and fine motor control: Diabetes mellitus neuropathy (the most common in the U.S. today, resulting in destruction of foot and ankle joints), with Charcot joints in 1/600–700 diabetics; related to long-term high blood glucose levels.
A 2017 Cochrane systematic review found that daily dosages between 1800–3600 mg of gabapentin could provide good pain relief for pain associated with diabetic neuropathy only. This relief occurred for roughly 30–40% of treated patients, while placebo had a 10–20% response.
Specialty. Neurology. Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy ( CIDP) is an acquired autoimmune disease of the peripheral nervous system characterized by progressive weakness and impaired sensory function in the legs and arms. [ 1] The disorder is sometimes called chronic relapsing polyneuropathy ( CRP) or chronic inflammatory ...
Polyneuropathy (from Greek poly- 'many' neuro- 'nerve' and -pathy 'sickness') is damage or disease affecting peripheral nerves ( peripheral neuropathy) in roughly the same areas on both sides of the body, featuring weakness, numbness, and burning pain. [ 1] It usually begins in the hands and feet and may progress to the arms and legs and ...
Frequency. 4.1%-12.4% (12-month prevalence, US adults) [ 1] Neuropathic pain is pain caused by a lesion or disease of the somatosensory nervous system. [ 2][ 3] Neuropathic pain may be associated with abnormal sensations called dysesthesia or pain from normally non-painful stimuli ( allodynia ). It may have continuous and/or episodic ...