I have had to deal with this for 7 years now, tho it was brought on by spinal cord trauma and not diabetes. I have it mostly in my hands and arms, and in my right foot to a lesser degree. It is more annoying than painful, and I have lost over 50% of the feeling in my hands, and have difficulty with coordination and balance also to some degree. My hands feel "fuzzy" - like I always have gloves on, and they are almost always cold too, and feel like a couple of blocks of ice hanging off the ends of my arms! They also are extremely sensitive to temperature changes of only a few degrees. The doctors tried me on both Neurontin and Lyrica, but neither helped, so now I take nothing. And since it isn't really painful - just uncomfortable - then I have learned just to deal with it - grin and bear it I guess I could say.

Hopefully your doctors will find something that you can take to ease the symptoms.