Weakness and diabetes are intertwined from the very beginning. Fatigue, for example, is one of the first symptoms of diabetes. There are many different forms of weakness in diabetes that one must contend with in this disease, two of which are diabetes muscle weakness and diabetes leg weakness.

Diabetes Muscle Weakness

Diabetes weakness of the muscle can be caused by diabetic neuropathy (nerve damage). Peripheral neuropathy is nerve damage in the arms and legs. Many people with diabetes have peripheral neuropathy, which along with causing diabetic weakness in the muscles, causes numbness, sharp pains or cramps, extreme sensitivity to touch, and a loss of balance and coordination.

In cases of neuropathy muscle weakness, diabetes symptoms begin at the ankle. According to the National Institutes of Health, this leads to changes in the way a person walks and because of this food deformities, such as hammertoes, begin to form. A …