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Read MoreIf you have patients who are living with diabetes, chances are you are no stranger to making diagnoses of neuropathy. While some patients (even those who do have nerve damage) might experience no symptoms at all, about 60 to 70 percent of diabetics experience pain, soreness, loss of sensation, tingling in the extremities, and even…
Read MoreAs physicians, we’re accustomed to a certain amount of variety in treating different patients with the same illness. After all, we’re treating individuals. But when you take on lupus patients, you’re taking the concept of variety in symptoms and outcomes to a whole new level. Granted, there are specific symptoms to the various types…
Read MoreIf you’re treating patients with diabetes, chances are very good that you’ve also got patients with hypoglycemia. Many patients with diabetes are so accustomed to their symptoms that they don’t pay attention to the subtle changes that can present with hypoglycemia. Often, they won’t have the very dramatic symptoms like loss of consciousness or diabetic…
Read MoreMost people think that acute kidney failure would present with symptoms too obvious to ignore. They expect to be bedridden…deathly ill…in and out of the hospital… What they don’t realize is that acute kidney failure often doesn’t cause noticeable symptoms. Many times it’s detected when the patient is already in the hospital for something else…
Read MoreThe peripheral neuropathy patient population is growing. That’s understandable when you look at the increase in • Diabetes • Cancer • Autoimmune diseases like lupus, Guillain-Barre’ Syndrome But there is another fast growing peripheral neuropathy patient population that often goes unnoticed. Patients with sexually transmitted diseases or STD’s[1] such as: • HIV/AIDS • Genital Herpes…
Read MoreDiabetes is one of the fastest growing illnesses in America. That means that if you don’t currently have patients with diabetes (unlikely, but possible), you will soon. And that means you’re going to be treating patients with diabetic neuropathy, particularly in their feet. According to the American Diabetes Association, one in five diabetes patients…
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