{"id":8116,"date":"2026-08-31T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/?p=8116"},"modified":"2026-08-31T07:06:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T05:06:08","slug":"it-starts-quietly-experts-urge-south-africans-not-to-ignore-the-silent-symptoms-of-nerve-damage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/articles\/it-starts-quietly-experts-urge-south-africans-not-to-ignore-the-silent-symptoms-of-nerve-damage\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cIt Starts Quietly\u201d: Experts Urge South Africans Not to Ignore the Silent Symptoms of Nerve Damage"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Real stories and clinical insight highlight the growing impact of Peripheral neuropathy why early action matters<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"734\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"8117\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/New-Sept-2026-edition-6-734x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8117\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/New-Sept-2026-edition-6-734x1024.png 734w, https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/New-Sept-2026-edition-6-215x300.png 215w, https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/New-Sept-2026-edition-6-768x1072.png 768w, https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/New-Sept-2026-edition-6-1101x1536.png 1101w, https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/New-Sept-2026-edition-6-1024x1429.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/New-Sept-2026-edition-6.png 1433w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 734px) 100vw, 734px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cNeuropathy is not always dramatic in its early stages in fact, it\u2019s often silent,\u201d says Dr Joshi, a practising diabetes specialist. \u201cBut those early sensations tingling, numbness, burning  are important warning signs. They should never be ignored.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,19],"tags":[49],"class_list":["post-8116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-health","tag-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8116"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8118,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8116\/revisions\/8118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}