Severe diabetic leg pain may be due to diabetic peripheral neuropathy, which needs to be treated with general treatment and medication.
1. General treatment: diabetic peripheral neuropathy also causes leg pain, patients need to actively control blood glucose, limit the intake of high sugar, high fat food, so as not to affect the stability of blood glucose.
2. Medication: patients also need to take medication, can apply alpha-lipoic acid, methylcobalamin and other neurotrophic agents. For those who have obvious pain, they can take Pregabalin and other drugs to relieve pain and symptomatic treatment; at the same time, give metformin or insulin and other hypoglycemic drugs to actively control blood sugar.
Diabetic leg pain may have other causes, diabetic patients with symptoms of leg pain should go to the hospital for further diagnosis and treatment to avoid delayed diagnosis and treatment.