Re: Diabetic neuropathy question

June 3, 2006

Are you talking about oximeters, Betty?

Not an MD

I'll tell you where to go!

Mayo Clinic in Rochester

s Hopkins Medicine

[ ] Diabetic neuropathy question

> ,

> There are several aspects to this. My hands and feet " look like "

> Raynauds. While diabetic neuropathy can cause skin color changes I do not

> find anything that appears the way mine does. Perhaps it could be

> diabetic neuropathy and Raynauds. Early on when trying to address this

> problem an Orthopedist said it was RSDS. I had never heard of this but

> when I checked the computer the description fit perfectly. Rayndauds in

> my hands are often such that the oxygen clip they put on your finger to

> measure oxygen just " does not work " . Why would all their equipment be

> broken when on my finger but on other people's it works good. Once they

> used 3 machines and then transferred me to another room. Those didn't

> work either. In the pulmonary office it did measure some, was either 99%

> or too low to measure within the same couple of minutes. That is the only

> time I have caught it when it was changing so quickly and was in a place

> they had the clips. Other times it is consistently 99%.

>

> I have had many doctors tell me it is NOT diabetic related. Initially

> they all said diabetic neuropathy but by the end of the apt. they changed

> and said it isn't. I know that diabetic damage is not fully known and

> perhaps my A1Cs that have always been under 6 could cause a problem.

>

> Right now I am focusing on how it looks, what is seen at the time there is

> a problem. I would like to have input from anyone with neuropathy as to

> weather the problem is visual. Perhaps it can be seen with the eye but in

> all my searches I have only found that sometimes it causes skin change

> color. Additional question is how does p.n. reflect in the oxygen

> measuring area?

> BVan (Betty)

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