Diabetes paralysis goes by many names. When it strikes, it is often without warning, but is it really? People with diabetes have known increased risk factors for Stroke, Neuropathy, Transient Ischemic Attack, and Gastroparesis. Establishing a treatment regime with your doctor and sticking to it will play an important role in keeping your insulin levels steady, thus greatly reducing the chances that you will experience lasting effects of paralysis. Let’s take a closer look at each type.

Stroke

Diabetics are two to four times as likely as a healthy individual to have a stroke. A stroke, simply put, is a “brain attack” caused by a blood clot blocking an artery or an artery collapsing or breaking on its own. Poorly managed diabetes leads to a thickening of soft tissue which cause the increase in chances to suffer a stroke.

When the brain attack occurs, blood flow is disrupted to …