Nerve Pain and Blood Sugar: Why You Need to Look Beyond A1C
If you have nerve pain and your A1C came back "normal" or only slightly elevated, that number may not tell the whole story. In this breakdown, Dr. Fitz explains why A1C — a three-month average of your blood sugar — can smooth over the glucose spikes and swings that may put stress on nerves, and why nerve changes can begin even at prediabetic levels below the usual diabetes cutoff. He covers the additional markers that may give a fuller picture of what your nerves are actually exposed to, and why looking beyond a single number matters when nerve pain is involved.
What you'll learn in this video
- Why A1C is a three-month average — and what that average can hide
- How glucose spikes and swings may stress nerves even when A1C looks acceptable
- Why nerve changes can begin at prediabetic levels, below the usual diabetes cutoff
- The additional markers that may reveal what your nerves are actually exposed to
- Why "your A1C is fine" doesn't always mean your blood sugar is nerve-friendly
- What a fuller metabolic picture can tell you that a single number can't