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According to most studies, more than half of the people with diabetes experience nerve damage. People with diabetes indeed have notoriously sensitive feet caused by nerve damage, also known as diabetic neuropathy . This neuropathy can lead to increased sensitivity, tingling sensations, numbness, pain, and discomfort. People with diabetes can develop diabetic neuropathy, but these risk factors make them more likely to get nerve damage. Poor blood sugar control - uncontrolled blood sugar means your blood sugar is too high and puts you at risk of every diabetes complication that can damage your nerves. Being overweight - a body weight more significant than what is considered healthy (Having a body mass of 25 and above) can increase your risk of diabetic neuropathy. Smoking shrinks and hardens your arteries, causing you to reduce the blood flow in your legs and feet, resulting in difficulty in healing wounds in your body and damaging your peripheral nerves. Kidney Disease - the high sugar level in the blood damages tiny filtering units of each kidney and eventually leads to kidney failure. Around 20 - 30 percent of people develop kidney disease, leading to nerve damage. A history of diabetes in the family - type 2 diabetes can be hereditary. This doesn't guarantee you will develop it if your mother or father has or has diabetes, but you have a greater chance of having type 2 diabetes. What Happens When You Have Diabetic Neuropathy? Researchers think that uncontrolled high blood sugar levels cause diabetic neuropathy. The sustained damage affects the nerves, causing them to interfere with their ability to send signals to the brain properly. High blood sugar also damages the walls of the small blood vessels called capillaries, which causes them to weaken. These are the vessels that supply oxygen and nutrients to the body. That's why it's so easy for people with diabetes to become unaware of the state of their hands or, most of the time, their legs and feet. People with di