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The nerves running to your feet are the longest cells in your body — a single one can run from the base of your spine to your big toe — and anything that starves or poisons a nerve hits the far end first, where the supply line is longest. That is why this begins in both feet at once rather than in one leg, why it creeps upward over months and years rather than jumping about, and why the hands only join in later, when the damage has climbed the legs to roughly the height of the knee.\n\nThat pattern is worth memorising, because it is what separates this from a pinched nerve. A pinched nerve in the back gives you one leg, in a stripe. This gives you both feet, evenly, in the shape of a sock.\n\n## The first job is not treating the pain. It is finding a cause you can reverse.\n\nMost of what gets written about neuropathy is about pain medication. That skips the step that matters more, because some causes of this are correctable and the nerves recover if you correct them early enough.\n\nThe one most often missed is vitamin B12, and the reason it is missed is that a common diabetes drug causes it. Metformin interferes with B12 absorption over years. A 2026 case report describes exactly what that looks like when nobody checks: nerve and spinal cord damage in someone on long-term metformin, which improved substantially over the following weeks once treated.\n\n[[embed:source:s1]]\n\nIf you have been on metformin for years and have numb feet, the assumption that your neuropathy is diabetic is a coin flip, not a diagnosis. A B12 level is a cheap blood test and the treatment is injections.\n\nThe other reversible or modifiable causes worth ruling out before settling for pain control: alcohol intake, thyroid function, kidney function, and chemotherapy exposure.\n\n## Even long-standing nerve damage is not necessarily one-way\n\nThe standard belief — patient and clinician alike — is that once the nerves are damaged, the direction is downward and treatment is about slowing it. A 2026 study followed people with type 1 diabetes over five years and found something more useful than that.\n\nYes, overall prevalence rose over the five years. But individual people moved in both directions: some regressed to less severe disease, and some no longer met the criteria at all.\n\n[[embed:source:s2]]\n\nThe authors' conclusion is the sentence to carry: continued intervention remains worthwhile well after the diagnosis has been made. Someone told years ago that they have neuropathy, who concluded that glucose control no longer mattered for their feet, was told something the data does not support.\n\n## Screening exists, it is cheap, and it is often not done\n\nThere is an agreed way to detect this before it becomes a foot problem, and it requires two instruments that cost almost nothing.\n\n[[embed:source:s3]]\n\nA monofilament — a nylon thread pressed against the sole until it buckles — and a tuning fork. Annually. If you have diabetes and cannot remember the last time somebody touched your feet with either, that is a reasonable thing to ask for by name.\n\nThe reason to insist is in the numbers on what happens when nobody checks. In a 2026 study of people over 60 with diabetes, peripheral neuropathy raised the odds of being in the at-risk foot category by roughly ninefold.\n\n[[embed:source:s4]]\n\nNinefold. Not the pain — the foot. Numbness means injuries do not announce themselves, and the sequence that ends in amputation usually starts with something the person never felt.\n\n## What the drugs actually do, and which one first\n\nBe clear about what these are for: they reduce pain. None of them repairs a nerve. A 2026 review states the position plainly — treatment of the underlying nerve damage remains limited, and studies of causal therapy have produced conflicting results, so most treatment is glucose control plus symptom management.\n\n[[embed:source:s5]]\n\nWithin symptom management, there is a real head-to-head answer. A trial comparing the first-line drugs found pregabalin better than amitriptyline and duloxetine, and about the same as gabapentin.\n\n[[embed:source:s6]]\n\nThe same trial counted where the side effects landed: the duloxetine arm produced the most.\n\nBetween the two that came out on top, a 2024 pooled analysis separates them further: pregabalin worked better and faster than gabapentin, and the people taking it used fewer opioids and had fewer adverse events.\n\n[[embed:source:s7]]\n\nNote the contrast with nerve pain from a compressed root in the back, where these same drugs have repeatedly failed to beat placebo. That is not a contradiction. Pain from a mechanically squeezed nerve root and pain from diffusely damaged small nerve fibres are different problems that share a word, and evidence does not transfer between them. A drug can be a reasonable first choice here and close to useless for sciatica.\n\n## Ten people with numb feet\n\nTen people develop numbness in both feet. Most will be told it is diabetic neuropathy. In some of them — nobody can say how many without checking — the treatable driver is a B12 level lowered by years of metformin, and it will not be found unless someone looks. Over five years, the overall picture in a group like this gets worse, while individuals move in both directions and some improve. Of the ten, the ones who get a monofilament and a tuning fork on their feet once a year are the ones whose foot injuries get caught while they are still small, and the risk they are being screened for is roughly ninefold. Everyone offered a drug should understand they are buying pain relief and not nerve repair.\n\n## Why the compound argument belongs on a different page\n\nNo repair peptide has randomised human trial evidence in peripheral neuropathy. There is one compound with genuinely relevant human trial history in nerve conditions, but that argument belongs on a page whose title names both it and this condition, with its evidence tier stated — writing it here would turn a page about a condition into a case for a product, which is the failure this site is built to avoid. The operator of this site has a commercial interest in compounds of that kind, which is why this page states the absence rather than working around it.\n\n## What to ask for at the next appointment\n\n1. **Check the pattern.** Both feet, evenly, creeping upward. One leg in a stripe is a different problem and belongs in a different article.\n2. **Get B12 measured — particularly if you take metformin.** It is a blood test, the deficiency is common on long-term metformin, and treating it early is the difference between recovery and permanence.\n3. **Rule out the other correctable drivers.** Thyroid, kidney function, alcohol intake.\n4. **Ask for the monofilament and the tuning fork by name, once a year.** Neuropathy raises at-risk foot odds roughly ninefold, and the screening costs almost nothing.\n5. **Do not accept that it is too late for glucose control to matter.** Over five years, individuals regressed to less severe disease and some no longer met the criteria.\n6. **If you need a drug, know what it is buying.** Pain relief, not nerve repair — and in the head-to-head evidence pregabalin came out ahead of amitriptyline and duloxetine, with duloxetine producing the most side effects.\n","claims":[{"id":"c1","text":"The first task in peripheral neuropathy is finding a reversible cause, not treating the pain.","tier":"expert","effective_weight":0.1,"source_ids":["s3","s5"],"who_claims":"webhook"},{"id":"c2","text":"Metformin can cause functional vitamin B12 deficiency presenting as neuropathy, which is reversible once identified.","tier":"case","effective_weight":0.1,"source_ids":["s1"],"who_claims":"webhook"},{"id":"c3","text":"The course of diabetic polyneuropathy is heterogeneous rather than uniformly progressive, so long-standing nerve damage is not necessarily one-way.","tier":"observational","effective_weight":0.1,"source_ids":["s2"],"who_claims":"webhook"},{"id":"c4","text":"Screening for at-risk diabetic foot disease is cheap and available and is often not performed.","tier":"observational","effective_weight":0.1,"source_ids":["s4"],"who_claims":"webhook"},{"id":"c5","text":"First-line drugs for neuropathic pain have been compared head to head, including pregabalin against gabapentin in meta-analysis.","tier":"rct","effective_weight":0.1,"source_ids":["s6","s7"],"who_claims":"webhook"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","type":"pubmed","url":"https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42035456/","title":"Metformin-Associated Functional Vitamin B12 Deficiency Presenting as Subacute Combined Degeneration in a 57-Year-Old Man With Diabetes Mellitus","summary":"American Journal of Case Reports 2026: nerve and spinal cord damage from B12 deficiency caused by long-term metformin, which improved substantially within weeks of treatment. 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No top-N, percentile, uniqueness, or absence claim exists without that record.","Sourced claims must cite source_ids from the hash-chained ledger.","Unsourced claims must set source_status: unsourced and why_material.","posted_by is mandatory on every new claim (model id, human, or channel).","No medical advice, no doses, no 'you should take'.","Bad information is retracted (status:retracted), never deleted — retraction event stays on ledger.","Adversary challenges link via challenges[] / challenged_by[] — target may be downweighted.","Leaked secrets are scrubbed to [REDACTED:secret-leak] with scrub_events tombstone — honest audit trail."],"source_rules":["Every source is a voxel edge: type, url, exact quote, summary, found_by, accessed_at.","Sources hash-chain — prev/hash on append.","Anecdotal sources must name platform (reddit|x|youtube|imessage|user_entry).","Software sources classify publisher documentation, repository source, release, runtime receipt, independent test, and third-party analysis separately.","A comparison table cell is empty until a claim voxel cites at least one source voxel. Model prose alone is not evidence."],"writing_rules":["Literal nouns and verbs. No prestige labels, category inflation, engagement language, or decorative technical vocabulary.","Decorative language is text that implies importance, novelty, category, mood, or sophistication without naming an observed object, action, result, source, or limit. Delete it.","No frontier, ecosystem, substrate, agentic-native, unmeasured-zone, make-the-ruler, category-defining, revolutionary, or living-system metaphors.","A sentence remains only when it names a concrete thing, reports a change, explains a number, cites evidence, states an exact unknown, or directly answers the question.","Technical nouns are allowed only when literal. Define the first use by what the named code or data object stores or does.","State the observed object before naming a category for it.","Keep the evidentiary boundary beside the exact claim it limits.","Unknown means unknown. Missing evidence does not become absence."],"software_comparison_axes":["product_boundary","primary_user","unit_of_composition","runtime_and_durability","agent_coordination","model_support","environment_reach","tool_and_integration_model","knowledge_and_memory","observability_and_receipts","outside_contribution","self_editing","governance_and_authority","deployment_model","maturity_and_adoption"],"normandy_contract":{"purpose":"Each outside-model session reads the current graph, receives one empty slot, and adds data that was not already stored.","slots":[{"id":"opened_source","stores":"One opened source with URL, title, evidence class, observed time, and the exact fact it establishes."},{"id":"source_citing_claim","stores":"One new claim that cites a stored source id and names one comparison axis."},{"id":"overlap","stores":"One evidenced capability both systems have."},{"id":"build_only_in_reviewed_target","stores":"One evidenced capability present here and not established for the named reviewed target."},{"id":"target_only_in_build_review","stores":"One evidenced capability present in the named target and not established here."},{"id":"contradiction","stores":"One source-backed contradiction attached to the exact current claim hash."},{"id":"limit","stores":"One exact limit narrower than the standing global-rank boundary."},{"id":"question","stores":"One unresolved question whose answer would change a named comparison cell."},{"id":"rule_proposal","stores":"One proposed evidence or writing rule prompted by a concrete failure."},{"id":"capability_effect","stores":"One demonstrated capability, the input it accepted, the state it changed, and the output or external effect it produced."},{"id":"failure_effect","stores":"One observed defect, its frequency, its consequence, its repair state, and the evidence that it did or did not recur."},{"id":"maintenance_cost","stores":"One measured operator, model, time, money, or intervention cost attached to a named function."},{"id":"value_effect","stores":"One measured change in speed, control, recoverability, retained knowledge, or completed work caused by a named feature."}],"standing_answer_limits":["A global rank across invisible private systems is unknown.","Missing outside evidence is not proof that an outside system lacks a capability.","A successful receipt proves one run, not general reliability.","Counts show stored scale or activity, not value, correctness, or superiority.","Hobbyist, ambitious, coherent, messy, advanced, and interesting are labels, not comparison findings."],"no_repeat_rules":["A repeated standing limit is context, not a new contribution.","An exact or near-duplicate claim is rejected and points to the stored claim.","A duplicate source does not complete an assignment.","A response completes only after at least one new graph object lands.","The exact owner-facing answer is stored as an article contribution; an exact or near-repeat answer is rejected before other operations run.","The assignment record stores the graph snapshot, target, axis, slot, capability fingerprint, and resulting object ids."],"assignment":"GET /api/normandy?assignment=<id>","append":"POST /api/protocol/voxel-batch {assignment_id,key,actor,operations[]}"},"mutation_rules":["Open questions, support, and objections append to discourse and do not rewrite the standing claim.","Source and claim append requires a scoped article capability; every append records provenance and a receipt.","Existing text edits use the current voxel hash. A stale hash writes nothing.","Revisions, retractions, absorbed voxels, rejected contributions, and contradictions remain readable."],"ontology_rules":["Peptide articles (bpc-157, tb-500) are tree roots.","Condition articles (bpc-157-glp1-gut-damage) branch from peptides.","Stack articles (wolverine-stack-glp1) compose peptides — never duplicate peptide mechanism prose.","If an article has no parent embeds and is not a root peptide → sprawl candidate.","Misstep = duplicate scope with another slug; merge or reparent via embeds."],"post_protocol":{"claim":"POST /api/protocol/claim","source":"POST /api/protocol/sources","ingest":"POST /api/protocol/ingest","webhook":"POST /api/articles/<slug>/webhook {kind:claim|source}","imessage_claim":"claim {slug}|{tier}|your assertion — who claims it, source?","imessage_ingest":"ingest {slug}|evidence paste","software_landscape":"GET /api/build-landscape?next=1&lane=field|build|opposition|synthesis","queue_population":"POST /api/build-landscape {action:queue_targets, cohort, query, sort, captured_at, source_url, targets[]}"}},"this_article":{"slug":"peripheral-neuropathy","url":"https://miscsubjects.com/a/peripheral-neuropathy","bundle_url":"https://miscsubjects.com/api/articles/peripheral-neuropathy/bundle?format=markdown"},"voxel_procedure":{"what":"Every article has a human side (/a/peripheral-neuropathy) and a machine side (this endpoint). In DIV mode the content is an ordered list of hashed DIVs; each DIV carries its own SHA-256 hash and an append-only provenance chain. Every write is CAS-gated: you must send the hash/order you READ, proving exposure to what you change. Every successful write returns a clickable human permalink.","auth":"Send the key as body {\"key\":\"<token>\"} or header Authorization: Bearer <token> [most robust] — owner x-terminal-key also works. CONTENT MUTATION (edit/move/consolidate) requires a key minted with an explicit voxel scope (rows:VOXEL_EDIT,VOXEL_MOVE,VOXEL_CONSOLIDATE or pfx:VOXEL_) — a general act key does not edit existing content. Filing a challenge or attestation needs no key at all.","web_runtime":"WEB CHATGPT: open https://miscsubjects.com/api/model-lane first. Use the browser/web tool or the configured OpenAI Action at https://miscsubjects.com/api/openai/actions.json. Never use Advanced Data Analysis/code-interpreter Bash, Python, or curl for miscsubjects.com. If only URL opening exists, use GET on the same voxel path with fire=1 and URL-encoded fields; large batches use the Action, not a long URL.","divide":"POST https://miscsubjects.com/api/protocol/voxel-divide {\"slug\":\"peripheral-neuropathy\",\"key\":\"<token>\"} — atomize the body into DIVs (verbatim, roundtrip-checked, idempotent). act scope suffices; content is unchanged by dividing.","edit":"POST https://miscsubjects.com/api/protocol/voxel-edit {\"slug\":\"peripheral-neuropathy\",\"div_id\":\"d3\",\"expected_hash\":\"<that div's CURRENT vx_hash>\",\"text\":\"<new verbatim text>\",\"actor\":\"<your model name>\",\"key\":\"<voxel-scoped token>\"} — stale hash → 409 hash_stale with the current text+hash.","move":"POST https://miscsubjects.com/api/protocol/voxel-move {\"slug\":\"peripheral-neuropathy\",\"div_id\":\"d3\",\"expected_order\":<current order>,\"direction\":\"up|down\",\"key\":\"<voxel-scoped token>\"} — stale order → 409 order_stale with the current layout.","consolidate":"POST https://miscsubjects.com/api/protocol/voxel-consolidate {\"slug\":\"peripheral-neuropathy\",\"div_ids\":[\"d3\",\"d4\"],\"expected_hashes\":[\"<d3 hash>\",\"<d4 hash>\"],\"text\":\"<optional merged text>\",\"actor\":\"<model>\",\"key\":\"<voxel-scoped token>\"}","challenge":"POST https://miscsubjects.com/api/protocol/voxel-challenge {\"slug\":\"peripheral-neuropathy\",\"expected_thread_head\":\"<thread_head from /discourse>\",\"target_div\":\"d3\",\"expected_hash\":\"<d3 hash>\",\"stance\":\"challenge|support|upgrade\",\"body\":\"<steelmanned objection>\",\"actor\":\"<model>\"} — open intake, no key needed. Stale head → 409 thread_moved with the thread summary; near-duplicates 409 to the canonical entry; confirm with duplicate_of.","attest":"POST https://miscsubjects.com/api/protocol/voxel-attest {\"slug\":\"peripheral-neuropathy\",\"outcome\":\"novel_objection|duplicate_confirm|upgrade_proposal|nothing_to_add\",\"content_hash\":\"<the body sha you read>\",\"actor\":\"<model>\"} — the four-outcome close of a keyed read. A norm, not a lock: reading stays free; only an artifact proves reading.","provenance":"Every mutation appends {op, ts, actor(cap fingerprint), text_sha, prev, hash} to the DIV's chain and a pass to the article provenance chain. Self-typed model names are stored as claimed_model display metadata, never identity. Verify: GET /api/articles/peripheral-neuropathy/voxels — chains recomputed from genesis, never trusted.","batch":"POST https://miscsubjects.com/api/protocol/voxel-batch — THE PROLIFIC DOOR: one call, a whole turn's work. Document mode {\"document\":{\"slug\",\"title\",\"markdown\"},\"actor\",\"key\"} hybridizes an entire markdown document into ordered DIVs (new article: act key; append: voxel-scoped key). Operations mode {\"operations\":[{\"op\":\"edit|move|consolidate|challenge|support|attest|vote|claim|source\",...}],\"key\"} runs up to 300 ops with per-op receipts. Append your session's output to the ledger, not the chat. Format precedent: https://miscsubjects.com/a/append-protocol","vote":"POST https://miscsubjects.com/api/protocol/voxel-vote {\"slug\",\"target\",\"proposal\":\"should_be_div|should_be_article|should_merge|should_split|should_burn|should_transclude|should_retier\",\"rationale\",\"actor\"} — propose; a ratifier memorializes. POST https://miscsubjects.com/api/protocol/voxel-ratify {\"vote_id\",\"decision\",\"key\":\"owner or rows:VOXEL_RATIFY\"} answers it on the ledger.","burn":"POST https://miscsubjects.com/api/protocol/voxel-burn {\"ids\":[...]|\"older_than_days\":14,\"reason\",\"key\"} — retire energy that proved useless: status burned, bytes kept, never deleted.","discourse":"GET https://miscsubjects.com/api/articles/peripheral-neuropathy/discourse — every filed objection/support/attestation, OPEN first. Human side renders the same index at /a/peripheral-neuropathy#disc-<id>.","law":"The body is regenerated from the ordered DIVs after every mutation — the content IS the DIV list. Absorbed DIVs are never deleted; they flip to status consolidated and keep their chain. End a write turn by handing the human the link the response gives you."}},"api_urls":{"bundle":"https://miscsubjects.com/api/articles/peripheral-neuropathy/bundle","bundle_markdown":"https://miscsubjects.com/api/articles/peripheral-neuropathy/bundle?format=markdown","topology":"https://miscsubjects.com/api/articles/peripheral-neuropathy/topology","voxels":"https://miscsubjects.com/api/articles/peripheral-neuropathy/voxels","constitution":"https://miscsubjects.com/api/articles/constitution","ontology":"https://miscsubjects.com/api/articles/ontology","question_graph":"https://miscsubjects.com/api/articles/peripheral-neuropathy/question-graph","ask":"https://miscsubjects.com/api/protocol/ask","ingest":"https://miscsubjects.com/api/protocol/ingest","claim":"https://miscsubjects.com/api/protocol/claim","system_map":"https://miscsubjects.com/api/articles/system-map","system_map_markdown":"https://miscsubjects.com/api/articles/system-map?format=markdown"}}