It appears you have some deep long term issues because of your diabetes, newlife.

1) Did you take metformin at one time? If so your B12 may be low since that drug interferes with it. You can get tested and see if you are below 400pg/ml. If so you need to start methylcobalamin which is the ACTIVE form and replenish yourself so your nerves can heal.

2) Diabetics really lose magnesium thru the urine, and you may be very very low by now. SlowMag is over the counter, and one of those twice a day may help. Up to 70% of people in the US do not eat magnesium rich foods to keep their levels at normal amounts.

This is my magnesium thread:
http://neurotalk.psychcentral.com/thread1138.html

OXIDE form is not helpful because it is not absorbed enough in the GI tract. It still however remains in many products and people unwittingly use it and get nothing in return.

3) Get a Vit D level run. There are studies that diabetics respond well to fixing low D levels and pain may decrease as well. The level you should strive for is 50. The D on RX from doctors does not work....it is an old version called D2 and not active we know now in humans.
Here is our D3 thread:
http://neurotalk.psychcentral.com/thread92116.html

These are the big three... fix these in your daily life and you may be very surprised at the results.

4) If you are taking a statin drug to lower cholesterol (which many doctors force on their patients), you may continue to have pain and deteriorate since statins cause neuropathies in some people. As long as you take one of these drugs, you may continue to suffer. We have many threads here revealing new studies and data on how destructive these drugs are...this is one thread:
http://neurotalk.psychcentral.com/sh...ghlight=statin
After informing yourself well, then have a serious discussion with your doctor about any treatment changes, you may want to try. If you have been on a statin for any length of time, you need to supplement the CoQ-10 it destroys...if you don't do this then your heart and other muscles will deteriorate. A good new brand of highly absorbable CoQ-10 is called Qunol -- it is available on Amazon and at Costco at reduced prices.100mg a day of this new type is all you need.

Being diabetic is MUCH MORE than just controlling glucose levels.