I get pinching effect on my left foot while sleeping. Is this a sign of diabetic neuropathy?

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I would like to know some details about your symptoms.

Since when you have diabetes? What exactly happens in the pinching effect in your left foot? Please describe in detail what exactly you feel? Is it pain, tingling, pinprick sensation, stretching sensation, vibration, or something else? Is there any tightening of toes or great toe during that time? In which part of the foot it happens (great toe, other toes, sole, outer side, inner side, ankle joint, or some other)? You can click a picture of your foot with the fingers kept at that place and attach it here.

Once started, how long-duration one episode of it lasts? Since how long time it started? Does it happen daily or intermittently, or one or two hours after sleep? Or does it also happen in awake time? How is its intensity severe, moderate, or mild? Are you able to sleep well soon after it subsides?

Do you have any other medical history (apart from diabetes)? How is your sleep in a routine? Do you get sleepy soon after laying in bed, or it takes a long time? Once got sleepy, do you have frequent awakenings during sleep? Do you feel fresh on awakening from sleep in the morning? How is your usual mood in day-to-day activities? How is your appetite? What medicines are you taking these days? Please mention their names and dosage with timings. Have you undergone any investigation or medications for your current symptoms? If yes, please give details.

Hello,

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As per your description, you have a pinprick sensation at a particular point on the left foot only, which start during sleep and get better on local massage and walking. It is difficult to say exactly what it is. But with a previous history of tingling at the bottom of the leg, there may be the possibility of neuropathy.

Also, I would like to know do you have any back pain, radiating, or non-radiating to leg? Does this foot symptom aggravate turning sideways in bed, coughing, bending forward, or lifting some heavy object?