Both diabetes and Wegs can cause neuropathy. That could account for pain in feet and maybe the hands too. Those pains for me are usually sharp burning or stabbing sensations. Usually they just feel numb or dead like a block of wood in parts of my feet but there is an occasional sharp pain like some one sticking a pin or hot iron into my toe. Pains in my hands are usually from cramps or carpal tunnel but they do have a slight numbness like when limbs are feeling asleep like when you sleep on them wrong and stop circulation. Pain in my knees and other joints are from Wegs or arthritis or other things like strain at present from using a knee scooter for broken ankle.
For me some times i feel the physical signs of an increase in my residual symptoms of Wegs, like joint pain, before my labs can confirm any such activity as there seems to be a lag before it shows in my lab work of a day or two. These fluctuations or increases in residual symptoms have not so far for me resulted in major flares that required RTX but have they necessitated some extra steroid meds or antibiotics at times and have lasted up to to two or three months but usually things improve in a few days most of the time.
i don't think any doctor can tell you with certainty that your symptoms are not due or are due to neuropathy, diabetes, or Wegs or anything else. All they can say is it doesn't sound like it to them or seem consistent with their past experience. All of these are very varied in how they can manifest themselves which can make any diagnosis difficult or very uncertain.
My joint pain was the worse shortly before my diagnosis and treatment for Wegs and has never been that severe since. Those pains were roaming too and this mystery eluded me and all the doctors I saw too since they never considered Wegs as the cause.
But like Jack often said, "just because you have Wegs, doesn't mean you can't have something else too."
Last edited by drz; 08-01-2016 at 11:03 PM.
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