Can Neuropathy cause death?? please please please help.?
My boyfriend is diabetic. He has JUST been diagnosed with neuropathy after numerous tests. At first, all the doctors found was a heart murmur, but they couldn't conclude anything with it. He doesn't have any numbness as far as I know. He hasn't told me anything about it.
He has been suffering from insomnia, and symptoms similar to that of depression. He doesn't feel weak, but sore all the time, as if he has been exercising a lot. That kind of muscle soreness. There were a couple times where he would feel his heart weigh him down, and he'd get minor headaches and feel dizzy.
There are no symptoms with his hands or feet. (yet...? >_<) Does that mean that they caught him in the early states of neuropathy?
he's been diabetic for 15 years already. It's genetic, runs in his family.
I know that Neuropathy is a slow process, and that it may lead to amputations... but does it lead to death directly because of the shut down of the nervous system, or does it lead to death indirectly, through amputations and etc?
PLEASE please... I don't really want personal accounts (no offense).I really need to know the facts, and searching on Google, Answers, etc. gives me all these scientific words and all symptoms and all treatments that I don't understand and all kinds of neuropathy and all kinds of possible outcomes. I don't want to freak myself out because I'm already very worried about him.
If you want more information about his current status to be able to answer my question more specifically, let me know. But I really... need to know.
Please and thank you to all who answer.
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If you want to know what the scientific words mean, buy a dictionary.
If he has been diabetic for fifteen years, he has probably been on metformin at least part of the time. Metformin destroys vitamin B-12.
Vitamin B-12 deficiency causes nerve damage (demyelination).
Studies in Japan and Russia have shown that high doses of a specific kind of vitamin B-12, methylcobalamin, can restore damaged nerves. The B-12 you get in the stores is cyanocobalamin.
Since you don’t want personal stories, I won’t bother you with the dose I used to regenerate my leg nerves or the cheapest source I found.
"Researchers found that 40% of type 2 diabetes patients using metformin had vitamin B12 deficiency or were in the low-normal range for the essential vitamin. And 77% of metformin users with vitamin B12 deficiency also had peripheral neuropathy, a common form of nerve damage associated with type 2 diabetes."