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Originally Posted by mrsD
If you have a toxin or metabolic problem...then PN will be not localized to the feet and legs.
Localization should be looked at as coming from the back.
Or circulation. If you smoke, I'd be looking at circulation.
Diabetic PN does start in the feet. But other causes/triggers do not localize just there.
My PN was thyroid induced early... and it was not only in the feet.
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I don't smoke, but I am overweight and have been for years. Although the basic glucose tests came back normal, after reading things on this board and elsewhere, I intend to ask for tests for impaired glucose tolerance -- i.e. "pre-diabetes". There are some reports on the internet that as many as 40% of those people originally labeled "idiopathic" turned out to have IGT.
We'll see...