Lots of people with diabetic neuropathy use medication to manage the pain and other issues, but unfortunately, these medications do not solve, stop, or reverse the actual nerve damage. They just make it easier to live with.
By keeping diabetes under control and by doing exercise, you can slow down how fast neuropathy gets worse. But now, with this new treatment, we might be able to make things better for people with neuropathy.
Neuropathy happens when nerves get damaged especially from diabetes, it mostly affects your feet, legs, hands, and arms. Symptoms can be all sorts of things like numbness, tingling, burning, and sometimes really bad pain. As it gets worse, it can mess up your balance and make it harder to do everyday things like walking, driving, sleeping, etc.