Neuralgia

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Central nervous system

Diabetes is another common cause of neuralgia. This very common medical problem affects almost 1 out of every 20 Americans during adulthood. Diabetes damages the tiny arteries that supply circulation to the nerves, resulting in nerve fiber malfunction and sometimes nerve loss.

Diabetes can produce almost any neuralgia nearly anywhere in the body, including trigeminal neuralgia.

Carpal tunnel syndrome (pain and numbness of the hand and wrist) and meralgia paresthetica (numbness and pain in the thigh due to damage to the nerve) can also be caused by diabetes, or can be due to trapping of nerves due to excessive or damaged surrounding tissues.

Other medical conditions that may be associated with neuralgias are chronic renal insufficiency and porphyria -- a hereditary disease in which the body cannot rid itself of certain substances produced after the normal breakdown of blood in the body. Certain drugs may also cause this neuralgia.

Review Date: 09/07/2006
Reviewed By: Kenneth Gross, M.D., Neurology, North Miami, FL. Review provided by VeriMed Healthcare Network.