What Is Diabetic Neuropathy? - Part 3

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This is a quote from this article. “Although the metabolic causes of diabetic neuropathy areperfectly well understood and documented, treatments for thisdisorder are still limited.” This statement shows thatresearchers and scientists think they know it all, but studies arestill surfacing that can prove them wrong. Some medical researchersare becoming too smug and making statements they should not bemaking.
Then we have this article that says,“Nearly half of all diabetics suffer from neuropathic pain, anintractable, agonizing and still mysterious companion of the disease.Now Yale researchers have identified an unexpected source of the painand a potential target to alleviate it.” This is verycontrasting. Maybe metabolic causes are understood and it is theneuropathic pain that is the mysterious companion. Regardless,statements like these stand out like the sores they are and createdoubts as to whether scientists really understand.
Another quote from the same article even tends to makedecisions even more difficult to understand, “How diabetes leads toneuropathic pain is still a mystery,” said Andrew Tan, an associateresearch scientist in neurology at the Yale School of Medicine andlead author of the study. "An interesting line of study isbased on the idea that neuropathic pain is due to faulty 'rewiring'of pain circuitry. With a growing number of diabetics, the conditionrepresents a huge unmet medical need. Once neuropathic pain isestablished, it is a lifelong condition.”
As much as I detest these statements,we need to realize that authors of studies are attempting to havetheir research noticed and stand out among all the reports issued ona daily basis. I do not agree that this should be totally necessaryand some statements are not that believable as it is, because toomany readers of medical science reports have a jaded view caused bystatements that are not quite believable.
The study reported by GretchenBecker in her blog on Health Central covers a potential target forreduction or prevention of the pain caused by diabetic neuropathy andthe report can be read here. Yes, this is the second mention, butwell worth reading.
Neuropathic pain, whether caused bydiabetes or other causes, is still painful and sometimesdebilitating, reducing the quality of life for those suffering fromit. Since I am one of those people who was diagnosed with neuropathyapproximately 10 years prior to the diagnosis of diabetes, it hasbeen a long 19 years with the pain in my feet.
I am glad to see that research isfinally beginning to make some progress into the cause and potentialtreatment for those suffering from neuropathy. I have a tendency toread past the sensationalism promoted the study reports, but attimes, I want to scream at what I know to be irresponsiblestatements.
Final of three parts.