Because pancreatitis can increase your risk of breathing problems, diabetes, infections, kidney failure, malnutrition and pancreatic cancer, watching what you eat is essential. Eating certain foods can help prevent an attack and reduce symptoms, the University of Maryland Medical Center reports.
Neuropathies related to diabetes can affect 60-70% of people with diabetes. Neuropathy associated with type 2 diabetes may be present at the time of diagnosing diabetes. Neuropathy associated with type 1 diabetes usually develops more than 10 years after the diagnosis of diabetes.
Narcotics may also cause side effects that could make symptoms of autonomic neuropathy worse. So narcotics are not often the first type of medicine tried for symptoms of diabetic neuropathy. If you begin taking an antidepressant or an anticonvulsant medicine for pain, it may take several weeks to see whether it is working.