http://www.diabetes.org/research-and...ntrol-may.html

I never knew one could get PN from gaining control over diabetes?

Cliffman

I wonder to what extent it's akin to alcohol withdrawal symptoms: sugar withdrawal, which we know can be immensely powerful.

I get the same type of SFN symptoms I have now when I am going through Ambien withdrawal.

Hmmm, I wonder if that is where some of my uptick came from? Or it could have been residual from the first quarter 2015 shingles fun? Or just the course of marching on neuropathy?

I certainly have not given up on parsing out ways to improve or even figure out if diabetes is my lone issue, as it is currently well controlled while my symptoms are not, but I have kind of turned my lens into making daily life more managable within coping with my symptoms.

It may appear defeatest in a sense, though I still eat relatively clean- vegan, though with some carbs allowed- but having spent a few years in decline I finally have found a place emotionally and mentally that works for me.

Physically I have decent days, bad days and worse days.

Eating too many carbs or sugar laden foods takes the buzzing to summertime cricket levels and we all know, there ain't no cure for the summertime blues.

I wouldn't be surprised if this explained a bump in symptoms during my first year from a "regular" diet to vegan.
Jon

I think it's kind of unclear. They don't understand the mechanism and I don't think there are more than a handful of studies on this topic.

With the drop in A1C, maybe some of those subjects created a hypoglycemic situation and that impaired blood and oxygen transport to their nerves, thus increasing the pain. Or perhaps, the drop in A1C was causing their nerves to repair, also causing pain. Interesting stuff. Thanks for sharing!