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Okay, so I want to create a video on the effects of high blood sugar on your nerves.

Okay, so there's three types of the nerves that could be affected.

The motor nerve, which basically go to the muscle.

So if there's damage to the motor nerve, you're going to have weakness or a loss of that

muscle function.

Could be complete atrophy or a loss of paralysis, basically.

Number two, then you have the sensory nerve.

Now if there's sensory nerve damage, you might have full control of the motor muscle,

but you might not be able to feel it so you can have numbness.

Or you could have a burning sensation or pins and needles.

If the blood sugars are high and you get damaged with the sensory nerve, you could have

a lot of leg pain, especially at night, okay?

Because the blood sugars tend to affect the peripheral nerves first.

That's the nerves in the fingertips, in the toes, in the bottom of the feet.

So you can have pain, numbness, weakness, and even cramping because the loss of electrolytes

which then can cause pain.

And number three, you can have a damage to the autonomic nervous system, okay?

Now what is that?

Those are the nerves that control different functions in the glands or the organs, okay?

So if you have damage to those nerves, you could become impotent, have urinary retention.

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