Pain caused by diabetic neuropathy is underestimated


These are just some of the ways patients with diabetic peripheral neuropathy have described the pain caused by their condition. — Viatris

Nearly one in three people (30%) around the world are affected by chronic pain, meaning that they have been living with persistent or recurrent pain for periods longer than three months.

One form of this condition is neuropathic pain, which is caused by a lesion or disease of the somatosensory nervous system.

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