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Prediabetes Not to Blame for Nerve Damage: Study
Posted 24 Feb 2012 by Drugs.com
FRIDAY, Feb. 24 – A new study finds that people with prediabetes are no more likely to have a type of nerve damage called small fiber polyneuropathy than healthy people, a finding that contradicts two decades of medical reports. The Mayo Clinic researchers said the results from their five-year study of 550 people suggest that doctors should look for causes other than prediabetes in patients with painful small fiber polyneuropathy. Prediabetes, also called borderline diabetes, is higher than normal blood sugar levels, but not high enough to be considered diabetes. "It is highly unlikely that impaired glucose or associated metabolic derangements cause polyneuropathy, at least not to the high frequency previously reported," lead author and neurologist Dr. Peter Dyck said in a Mayo news release. The study was published in the February issue of the journal Diabetes Care. Diabetic ... Read more
Related support groups: Diabetic Neuropathy, Diabetic Nerve Damage, Pre-Diabetes
Drug Combo May Offer Best Relief for Nerve Pain
Posted 16 Jul 2010 by Drugs.com
TUESDAY, Sept. 29 – People with nerve pain respond better to a combination treatment using the anticonvulsant gabapentin and antidepressant nortriptyline than to treatment with either drug alone, according to Canadian researchers. The study findings suggest that combination treatment could be used to help people who only partially respond to one drug or the other. Nerve, or neuropathic, pain – which affects 2 to 3 percent of the population – is "initiated or caused by a primary lesion or dysfunction in the nervous system," according to a news release from The Lancet, which is publishing the study online Sept. 29. Conditions that cause neuropathic pain include nerve problems in the spine, diabetes-related nerve damage and postherpetic neuralgia (PHN), which is nerve pain caused by the varicella zoster virus that can follow an outbreak of shingles. The study included 56 people with PHN ... Read more
Related support groups: Gabapentin, Neurontin, Neuralgia, Nortriptyline, Persisting Pain -- Shingles, Diabetic Neuropathy, Diabetic Nerve Damage, Pamelor, Postherpetic Neuralgia, Gabarone, Aventyl HCl
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