There are several different conditions which can cause diabetes thigh pain. Any types of pain in diabetes should not be easily overlooked because it is so crucial for diabetics to get treatment early before complications can arise. Therefore, any kind of reoccurring diabetes thigh pain, or thigh pain that does not go away within a couple of days should be brought to the attention soon.  The same stands for any other type of pain as well.

One of the most serious of these is proximal neuropathy. In peripheral neuropathy, the most common type of nerve damage found in diabetes, the symptoms begin in the outer limbs such as the feet and the hands and then spreads to the legs and arms. In proximal neuropathy, however, the nerve damage begins with pain in the thighs, hips, buttocks and legs and usually only on one side of the body. Therefore, diabetic …