Hello @minniemya and welcome to Mayo Clinic Connect. I can certainly understand your concern about neuropathy given your problems with balance and a broken foot. Balance problems are always a concern to us as we age. You are wise to be using a cane. The more support you have the safer you will be.

Since you posted in the Diabetes Endocrinology discussion group, I'm guessing that you have diabetes. Is that correct? Unfortunately, neuropathy is a side effect of diabetes.

I would like to invite you to the discussion groups that Connect has on the topic of neuropathy. Here is a link to those discussions, https://connect.mayoclinic.org/group/neuropathy/. As you can see there are many people dealing with this problem. I would like to invite @johnbishop to introduce you to these discussions as well as some members.

If you care to share more, do you have pain or just numbness? Has your doctor prescribed anything to help?

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