Every guide on Managing Neuropathy, newest first — symptoms and causes, treatment options, daily foot care, and the product guides.
Product guidance · Socks Compression socks and neuropathy: when they help, and when they make things worse Compression socks don’t treat nerve damage. They treat swelling. For someone with neuropathy that difference matters, because the same squeeze that helps a swollen ankle can hurt a foot that can’t feel it, or a leg whose arteries … Read more
Symptoms & causes Leg and foot cramps at night: causes, fast fixes and the nerve connection A night cramp is a muscle locking itself into a hard, painful knot, usually in the calf or the arch of the foot. Most are harmless and give way to a stretch. Some are a clue to a medicine, … Read more
Symptoms & causes Restless legs or neuropathy? How to tell them apart, and why it matters Both can wreck your evenings and your sleep, and both live in the legs, but they are different problems with different fixes. One question separates them faster than any test: does moving your legs make it better? Written by … Read more
Symptoms & causes Cold feet: why they happen, and when it’s your nerves or your circulation Most cold feet are simply feet doing their job, giving up heat to protect the rest of the body. Feet that stay cold, change color, or feel cold while being warm to the touch are telling you something more … Read more
Symptoms & causes Numbness in one foot: causes, and when it’s an emergency Neuropathy from diabetes and most other whole-body causes usually affects both feet. When only one foot is numb, the cause is usually a single nerve under pressure, in the lower back, at the knee or at the ankle, and occasionally something that … Read more
Symptoms & causes Numbness on the bottom of the foot: causes, what helps and when to worry A numb sole usually means one of two things: nerves failing at their far ends, which shows up in both feet, or one nerve squeezed somewhere between the lower back and the toes, which usually shows up in … Read more
Symptoms & causes Numbness on the top of the foot: causes, quick fixes and when to worry A numb or tingling patch across the top of one foot is usually a squeezed nerve rather than neuropathy, and the thing doing the squeezing is often tied every morning. Here is how to tell the causes apart, … Read more
Diabetes Diabetic amyotrophy: thigh pain and weakness in diabetes Diabetic amyotrophy is a rare nerve condition of diabetes. Sudden, severe pain in the hip, buttock or thigh, usually on one side, is followed within weeks by weakness and shrinking of the thigh muscles. It mostly affects people over 50 with type 2 diabetes, often early … Read more
Causes Idiopathic neuropathy: what it means when no cause is found Idiopathic neuropathy means nerve damage, usually starting in both feet, for which no cause has been found after testing. It is common, especially after 50, and it usually changes slowly. The label is a working conclusion rather than a final verdict: a few tests … Read more
Diagnosis Axonal neuropathy: what it means, causes and treatment Axonal neuropathy means the nerve fibers themselves, the long, wire-like axons that carry nerve signals, are damaged or lost, rather than the insulation around them. Most polyneuropathies are mainly axonal, and most begin in the feet and progress over months or years. Diabetes is the most … Read more