--both the Atkins and Zone dietary approaches are about trying to keep blood sugar levels on more of an even keel, as wide swings in blood sugar can be just as damaging as steady high levels.

It also sounds like you have (at least right now) a predominantly small-fiber neuropathy, which would not be diagnosable with standard nerve conduction studies, as the small, unmyilenated fibers that control pain and temperature sensation (very often the first to be damaged in glucose dysregulation situations) cannot be measured that way--it often takes quantitative sensory testing, or even skin biopsy, to find damage to those types of nerves.