Some of the most adverse effects come under neuropathy – nerve damage caused by consistently high blood sugar levels.
Different types of pain can signal proximal neuropathy – a rare and disabling type of nerve damage in your hip, buttock, or thigh.
The initial pain can be “sharp or lancinating, or deep or burning”, said P. James B. Dyck, MD, Consultant of Neurology and Co-Director of the Peripheral Nerve Laboratory at the Mayo Clinic, who, with Doctor Anthony J. Windebank, MD, Professor of Neurology at the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, wrote a review article in Muscle & Nerve.
In some patients, even tactile stimuli can bring on pain.
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