These special shoes help protect your feet. Medicare and other health insurance programs may pay for special shoes. Talk to your doctor about how and where to get these shoes. Peripheral nerves go from your spinal cord to your arms, hands, legs, and feet. Autonomic nerves help you know your blood sugar is low.
Some people take diabetes medicines that can accidentally make their blood sugar too low.
This kind of damage is more likely to happen if you have had diabetes for a long time. It can also happen if your blood sugar has been too low very often. Autonomic nerves go from your spinal cord to your lungs, heart, stomach, intestines, bladder, and sex organs. Autonomic nerves go to the stomach, intestines, and other parts of the digestive system. Damage to these nerves can make food pass through the digestive system too slowly or too quickly.