Symptoms

Autonomic neuropathy damages the nerves running blood pressure, digestion, bladder and sweating.

Foot drop is a sign, not a diagnosis. Where along the nerve the interruption sits decides everything, and a thirty-second bedside test usually tells you.

Peripheral neuropathy produces sensory, motor and autonomic symptoms, and which set you have narrows the cause.

Tingling in the feet is often the first sign a nerve is in trouble. A podiatrist-led guide to what the pattern means.

Burning feet at night is usually small-fiber neuropathy, but one pattern points to circulation instead. How to tell them apart, and what actually helps.

Where the numbness is, whether it is symmetric, and how fast it arrived narrow the cause far more than the sensation does.