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Hi, Martame (@martame)
One of my closest friends has the combo of PN and diabetes. I'm not sure in his instance which came first, or, for that matter, if even he knows. Several years before I was diagnosed with PN, I was told my labs indicated that I was pre-diabetic but not to be concerned ("many people are pre-diabetic"). Subsequent labs showed that I had a low red blood cell count. My PCP sent me to see a hematologist. After yet more blood work, the hematologist seconded what my PCP had said a few years earlier, that I was "officially" pre-diabetic, but just barely, and I shouldn't be concerned. To this date, no link to my PN has ever been suggested.
Ray (@ray666)
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Ray, ran across this fairly incredible source (NIH) re: pre-diabetes.
"It is now increasingly being appreciated that a substantial proportion of subjects with prediabetes may exhibit peripheral neuropathy and/or neuropathic pain. The reverse is also true, inasmuch as examining patients with idiopathic peripheral neuropathy will frequently reveal prediabetes. In the general population, the prevalence of neuropathy in prediabetes is intermediate between overt diabetes and subjects with normoglycemia. This prediabetic neuropathy is, generally, milder in comparison to diabetic neuropathy and mainly affects small fibers mediating sensory function."
Bob