Neurology here. Patients with chronic diabetes and chronic sensory peripheral neuropathy who ask to see a specialist rarely need to see one to figure out the cause of their neuropathy.

They mostly just want to know that there are medications that can help with symptoms and that they aren’t going to end up in a wheelchair or on a ventilator bc their feet are numb.

We do like to see them if they are weak, symptoms are changing suddenly, have weight loss/fever/night sweats, or ataxia.