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Sudden loss of some sensation in my feet and legs tingling and weakness. Prior just burning in feet. Lost my sense of balance to some degree, suddenly drop things things alot. I have facial pain that was only on the left side and now some on the right. It is accompanied by severe burning pain and nausea. Hearing sensitivity.They said my last blood sugar was normal,it has been high at times, it was diagnosed as insulin resistance. The family doctor feels at this time I don't need diabetic meds. Just a diet and avoid sugar and get exercise which is difficult when you have a hard time walking around the block due to leg weakness. The Mri's taken of my brain show nothing ,cervical spine shows a pinched nerve + stenosis left side,which they don't feel is causing the facial and head pain. Stenosis in my lumbar spine ,osteoporosis in that area in a couple of discs with a node,dismissed. DX,hi cholesterol,family Dx mother,father both aneursyms of brain.Mother multiple strokes.Doctor What now??

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Dear Lotus rain:
Lets go back a little; You startes with burning and tingling sensation of the face and also numbness of you legs?
Loss of balance and nausea and decreased hearing sensibility?
Next spet to make a good diagnosis, is to check your B12 and folate blood levels, and check your nerve conduction,
Your peoblem sounds like a multiple neuritis ( inflamation of multiple nerves), which is in geeral more often but not necesarily, to diabetes.
You dont need to be diabetic to have polineuritis.
The problem arises in vegetarians (vegans) and people that do not eat red meat, also in people subjected to very restrictive diets, -
The MRI, the acustic tests (audiometry), even cholesterol, have nothing to do with it, ncluding spinal narrowing either cervical nor lumbar.
The treatment will depend on the results. The easiest and less costly first: blood test for folate in erythrocites and b12 or cobalamine levels. If low, the problem can be cured by providing the necessary absent nutrients.
Next if they are normal, are nerve test conduction (Yes, I know, its painful and iplies eedles stuck to your body with some elstric mild currents bein mesured for speed of nerve conduction,)
If they are normal, the neuritis treatment has to comprise oral amytriptiline or oxcarbazepine tablets, together with proper analgesics (hydroxycodone 30 mg two or three times a day)
Nothing wrong with your spine or brain, lets start with the proper diagnoses before anybody gets lost in the bushes and despair.
Yours sincerely
Garfield526

Other Answers:
this sounds like qa gentic desies u cant cure that not that i no of

degenerative disc

verify your colan, my mother has it too

I think you should be ruled out for a CVA , TIA , Peripheral disease by having a AO run off and cardiac workup. Have you been seeing a Cardiologist?

Colorectal Cancer,stroke,aneurysums are possible causes.See a doctor about surgery immediately.

I think you should seek a second opinion to rule out diabetes. My boss has type 2, and he has all the symptoms you mentioned. Check out another doctor, preferably recommended

Peripheral neuritis is a complication of diabetes, lumbar and cervical spine problems cause pain, too.
If your blood sugar at this time needs no treatment then your peripheral neuritis does, the treatment is manily vitamins.
Ask if surgery can hely your lumbar and cervical problems, if not, ask for physiotherapy.

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