Diabetes complications
Long-term high blood sugar can affect nerves, kidneys, blood vessels, and wound healing. Early recognition matters.
Diabetic peripheral neuropathy (DPN)
Diabetic neuropathy is nerve damage caused by long-term high blood sugar, most often felt as tingling, numbness, burning or pain in the feet. Diabetic neuropathy treatment in Gachibowli, Hyderabad at this practice starts with a careful foot and nerve assessment, including point-of-care DPN Check nerve testing, followed by blood sugar optimisation, nerve pain medicines when needed, and structured foot care. Existing nerve damage usually can't be reversed, but these steps can slow its progression, relieve pain and lower the risk of foot ulcers.
Diabetic nephropathy / diabetic kidney disease
Diabetic kidney disease is kidney damage from long-term diabetes, identified through regular testing well before symptoms appear — and it's the leading cause of chronic kidney disease in India, contributing to nearly half the country's dialysis cases. Two simple tests, one blood and one urine, combine to show your specific risk category, which shapes how closely you're monitored and how your treatment is chosen.
Diabetic foot ulcers
Diabetic foot ulcers develop where reduced sensation, reduced circulation, and pressure combine — and most are preventable through risk-based screening and daily self-care. This page focuses on understanding your risk and preventing a first or repeat ulcer; if you already have an active wound, see our diabetic foot ulcer wound care page for treatment. Recurrence after healing is common — up to 40% within a year — which is why prevention doesn't stop once a wound closes.
Peripheral vascular disease
Peripheral vascular disease (PAD) is reduced blood flow to the limbs, most often the legs and feet, raising the risk of poor wound healing, pain with walking, and cardiovascular events. It's often silent — a large share of people with PAD have no symptoms, yet still carry meaningfully higher cardiovascular risk, which is why simple testing (an ABI) matters rather than waiting for leg pain. In India, PAD affects roughly 1 in 5 people with type 2 diabetes.
Diabetes and anemia
Anemia is seen more often alongside long-term diabetes, through several distinct mechanisms — reduced kidney hormone production, iron deficiency, and even long-term metformin use itself. Because the cause matters for treatment, it's worth testing for directly rather than assuming fatigue is simply from blood sugar.
Diabetic eye disease (retinopathy)
Diabetic retinopathy is damage to the blood vessels at the back of the eye caused by long-term high blood sugar. It usually causes no symptoms until sight is already affected, so regular eye screening is essential: at diagnosis of type 2 diabetes, within five years of type 1, and then every one to two years. Good control of sugar, blood pressure and cholesterol lowers the risk, and an eye specialist treats it with injections or laser when needed.