Joyceann:

You said the following: "It's so good to find someone else who has found that that such low (mine was 209) numbrs can cause such serious problems.

209 is extremely high. Not low.

I'm just wondering if you mis-typed this number or if you really think that 209 is a low sugar reading.

Just curious.

Melody

Melody-The 209 is what I had after eating and the way my doctor put it was that I was barely diabetic. My A1C is always around 6.0.

I was diagnosed type 2 diabetes less than 3 weeks ago. It scared the holy youknowhat outof me and I immediately began learning to be compliant. I was disabled by lyme disease 11 years ago...took me down like MS, but very rapidly, was on antibiotics for 6 years. Now 2 years ago I began to develop a neuropathy that seems to only be sensory, not motor and sensory like when I had lyme. It started in my thighs and spread to my torso and then my whole body. My hands and feet are least affected. My former neuro doc said that pn usually/always starts with the hands/feet and moves in from there. Mine is oposite of typical. My current doc thinks my neuro problems may be some sort of post lyme complication. A professor of neurology at UCLA couldn't figure me out so I went back to my primary care doc. Was on lyrica 400mg, clonopin 2 .5 mg tabs daily but that left me high/drunk/stupid so I'm on 5x300mg neurontin daily....sometimes 6 pills. how high does blood glucose have to be to cause neuro problems? My doc complained when I hit 140.

--to cause the type of microvascular disruption that results innerve damage--wild blood sugar swings, and/or a fairly constant "impaired glucose tolerance" level that would be below that at which one would be diagnosed with frank diabetes, can also do it.

Still, given what you've reported, I wouldn't automatically assume that your "new" neuropathy symptoms are necessarily related to high blood sugar.
They well could be, but too many doctors notice a high blood sugar reading and stop their investigations. Given the Lyme history, an autoimmune molecular mimicry effect may be involved, especially with the atypical body part presentation.