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I have a patient with type 2 diabetes who has had pins & needles in his feet for some years.

Recently he was diagnosed with low testosterone levels and was prescribed a topical testosterone cream. After 2 days of using it, his pins & needles resolved. Since then it, some prescribing rules have changed and he had to stop using it - pins and needles have come back.

Just wondering if anyone has come across this before? Also and explaination of why the testosterone would reduce the pins & needles??

 

Thats a new one to me, so Google'd it... yes there does appear to be relationship between peripheral neuropathy and testosterone levels

I did not do a very throrough search, but found these:
http://neurotalk.psychcentral.com/showthread.php?t=195956
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9291507
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11127505

 

Thanks Craig! I guess i could've googled it, but thought id go straight to a more reliable source!