I am starting this thread to put up links to information about this common trigger for peripheral neuropathy.

Anyone who wants to ask questions or contribute experience and/or more links is welcome:

This is a link to a paper on impaired glucose tolerance, which may precede type II diabetes by many years:

http://www.citeulike.org/user/wrs1/article/6499468
And I just found this article while searching something else the other day:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21205116
new information as of 2011:
d-chiro inositol is related to myoinositol which is also called inositol. It has been suggested that diabetics use inositol because it is lost in the urine in people with diabetes. The d-chiro form is just an isomer and is over the counter. It is currently used by the PCOS community to help reverse infertility in women with PCOS. (poly cystic ovary syndrome).
I took it for a year..hoping it would help my A1C and it did not.
A therapeutic dose of d-chiro inositol costs about $60 a month.
This is a reputable brand:
http://www.chiralbalance.com/
I also see that Swanson's has it now, but the dose they offer is very low only...30mg. The chiral balance is 300mg/cap.

I'll be adding to this thread with time. And I repeat -- others who have questions or information to share are welcome.

Magnesium is very important for people with diabetic neuropathy.

http://ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/magnesium

This link is very important to understand magnesium and also to
help patients choose an effective method (either food or quality supplements) to normalize their magnesium levels. I have linked to this NIH website many times.

Here is my magnesium thread on NeuroTalk:
http://neurotalk.psychcentral.com/thread1138.html

Befotiamine is a synthetic form of thiamine that has shown to be very beneficial for peripheral neuropathy. There has been a lot of research on this supplement. Many promising studies out of Germany and Japan. I frequently recommend it for my patients. It is available in a cream and capsule form.
Hope this helps.

Thanks for the reminder, Matt. I have a thread on the subform about Benfotiamine already.
I started this thread for Diabetic Neuropathy, because it should really have its own title. This will aid people coming in from Google searches too.

here is what I have so far, and when I make the benfotiamine post here I will link to it, and perhaps find even new papers on it:
http://neurotalk.psychcentral.com/post653193-4.html

--I should also reprise my postings of articles about neuropathy in people with impaired glucose tolerance but not yet diagnosable with frank diabetes, as too many are told even by physicians that they can't get diabetic neuropathy unless they've had diabetes for years. This is not true, and often neuropathic symptoms are the presenting complaint in those with glucose tolerance issues:

Even blood sugar readings that would not be considered in the range of frank diabetes, but would just be considered "impaired glucose tolerance", such as those in the range of around 100-125, have been associated with peripheral neuropathy, particularly those of the small fibers, which tends to be burning, lancating, and electrical in symptoms, and not necessarily the stereotypical "numb". There's been a lot of research coming out about this in the last few years; I keep a list of papers and studies on this that includes:


http://intl.neurology.org/cgi/content/abstract/60/1/108

http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/c...TRY=1&SRETRY=0

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/q..._uids=16448668

http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/c...07929/ABSTRACT

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/q...d_AbstractPlus

There are a lot more, but you get the idea.

Here is a good link to Dr. Sahelian's website.

http://www.raysahelian.com/diabeticneuropathy.html

He has collected some research on the common supplements often suggested for PNers that are diabetic.

I think the link is worth reading.

I have a supplement thread here on the subforum as well.
Benfotiamine

acetyl carnitine so far.

http://neurotalk.psychcentral.com/thread121683.html

I'll be doing lipoic acid soon....that will be the next post.

Depletion of Taurine in Experimental Diabetic Neuropathy: Implications for Nerve Metabolic, Vascular, and Functional Deficits

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science...14488600975915

Taurine and Inositol are often recommended for diabetics.

Inositol is lost in the urine of diabetics like magnesium.

Statins now linked to type II diabetes:

http://old.news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20120...thbeat_statins

This is one other study showing some statins actually lead to insulin resistance:
This is only one example of the emerging data on statins and insulin resistance. More are out there like the Yahoo article, and I think once the patents on Lipitor and Crestor expire, we will see many more negative studies.

Thanks to bent98 for finding this article:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3002451/