Hello, thanks for replying, it sure is nice to talk with someone who has experienced the same problems, most people don’t know anything about this sickness. Keith’s problem is chronic pain, he has muscle weakness but not parylsis. OOPS! He was dignosed with a spinal tap and a nerve conduction test. He is not on predisone, because of his sugar. He has alot of health problems, such as liver problems, problems going to urinate, digestive problems. Sometimes he gets to talking out of his head, does that go with this diease. I don’t know what to expect out of this diease, his sugars run in the 300’s all the time. He’s on 100 units of insulin twice a day and a sugar pill a day. He states he is depressed about his condition. We have 3 kids and he is only 39 years old. Can you give me any suggesstions on what I’m looking at. Is this usual health problems with this diease.

Dear Susie!

When I visited a neurologist for the first time to find out more about the mysterious and severe pain in my feet, he at once told me I had Polyneuropathy, and said that a possible reason for this could be diabetes. I did not have that, nor any of the other usual causes of Polyneuropahy, like alchoholism or B-12 vitamin deficiency. That’s when they moved on to try and find another cause, and what they came up with next was CIDP.

In fact, it turned out that CIDP was not the correct diagnose either, but that is a long an irrelevant story here.

I don’t really know much about it, but is your husband’s CIDP mostly painful or does he lose the ability to move his muscles, like they are more or less paralyzed? Because I think that if his symptoms of CIDP is mostly pain, it could be a connection between this and his diabetes.

Good luck to you both!
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