was your big toe numb at all? about a month ago my big toe went numb on my left foot followed by my big toe on my right 3-4 days later. i have yet to consult a doctor and diabetes runs in my family too. !
Not to be a hypochondriac on your behalf, but you should go to a doc ASAP. Diabetic infection is what killed the owner of the Jazz. They started by chopping off one of his feet, then his legs, but they couldn't stop that . Diabetes might be fairly easy to treat, but leaving it untreated is protracted suicide.
^ yeah since reading chalupas orginial post i've been sitting here pretty damn depressed. i sort of put my issue out of my mind to ease my worries but now it's hitting me 10 fold after reading this thread.
having no insurance is one reason i haven't gone to the doctor. i guess i really do need to suck it up and go get a check up already.
Wow, that sucks, but I'm glad to hear only a toe was needed to get rid of the infection. What prompted the trip? Did you feel pain in your big toe or something? What should all of us be on the lookout for?
Not sure what you mean by depending 'how bad it's gotten'. A type 1 person will have to take insulin. If I read correctly, PIT is still in the experimental stage and not FDA approved yet? I also read that after a few years, some people had to go back on insulin. Anyway, I hope they find a cure. My 17 year old niece was diagnosed at 12 and is on the insulin pump and it sucks.
My PSA of the day--people, if you're diabetic, PLEASE check your feet!! My husband specializes in the diabetic foot and is currently involved in a foot ulcer study that I'm helping him with (not by choice!). Believe me, I've seen some N.A.S.T.Y ulcers, even on some partial amputations. If your doctor tells you to wear special shoes and/or a boot, wear it! All too often, people's ulcers will start healing and they stop wearing the boot and the ulcer gets worse again. Neuropathy is very common and if ignored, it's possible to lose more than your toe or foot.
koriwhat, I know you don't have insurance, but it's not something you can ignore. Please get checked out.
+1 Find a doctor and ask them their cash price for a basic physical. Get the price for some basic lab blood work, lipids and glucose. My guess is that it will cost maybe $350 walk out price. Get it done twice a year, especially with your family history, Koriwhat.
"my big toe went numb on my left foot followed by my big toe on my right 3-4 days later"
could be peripheral neuropathy, a common symptom of diabetes.
That's because your foot was up mouse's ass all day!
Hey Joe will you now be working for .......................
Yeah, it was numb and cold. You should get it checked out
I was not even asked about insurance until I was already in a room getting diagnosed. I walked in at 5:45pm and was in a room by 6pm. Not once did they ask about payment or insurance.
NE Methodist.
By the time I actually felt pain the infection was bad. I had lost some feeling and it was cold. I knew it was bad going in though. I waited too long.
Thanks for the info. Good luck beating this , Joe.
Are they the John Kerry ones or the Manu's?
Where was diabetes in 1950? face it! It's all the preservatives and artificial crap we eat today.
my toes are numb but don't feel cold. no noticeable difference in color so i suppose there's still circulation. i can still feel stuff but it does feel numb as and only on the tips of my big toes. it's freakin' me out now. damn...
i'm filling the carelink forms out now and going to go to the hospital tomorrow on my damn bday. god i hope i am not diagnosed with diabetes especially on my bday. !
Knowing is better than not knowing. Ostrich behavior isn't a strategy. Glad you're getting seen.
It's better that you get a gentle tap on the shoulder like this. There's a guy at my job who's lost a leg below the knee (good, because he can still get around well), but he's on dialysis (bad, because his kidneys have essentially shut down). He's probably late 40s/early 50s, and I'd be shocked if he lived another 10 years. With his level of diabetes degradation, blindness is on the table.
When you ignore symptoms or are diagnosed and don't follow the instructions, you are shaving years and quality of life off of your body.
Yeah, you don't want that. I just lost an uncle to a sudden heart attack, caused I'm sure in no small part by his diabetes and resulting kidney failure. He was in his early 50s. Get that taken care of and don't let it get that far.
Diabetes, who has time for a cure? we need to spend another 12 Billion dollars to go to find whats on Mars!................
I'm sure all the dead Americans and people without legs and toes don't mind as long as they get to enjoy the photos of the red planet.the International Space Station was more than 500% over budget and is still incomplete after twenty years. The actual cost of the Shuttle moving resources into space was underestimated by a factor of twenty. Based on current estimates of the total cost of going to Mars ($170 billion) the true cost could easily mount to $1 trillion.
Whoa Joe, that's scary. I'm happy to hear you are on the road to recovery.
There should be a small country where chemicals preservatives and flavor subs utes are not present. All food is grown on the spot and sun screen is mandatory. And after 20 years see how the people are doing. Find out who got Cancer and from where, pin point the source. That is a project worth spending 12 billion on.
"who has time for a cure"
The intelligent question is:
"WGAF for (diabetes) prevention?"
Adult-onset Type II diabetes is almost exclusively a lifestyle disease, aka bad diet (high-sugars, high carbs, overweight, obese) and no exercise. A self-inflicted disease.
Joe should have been told that his disease is not only manageable, but also mostly curable, if he changes his life-style, becomes lean and fit, hits the cardio and resistance training hard, re-sensitizing his body to insulin, cuts out the processed foods, refined sugars, sweeteners, high-calorie-density cheap crap on hand everywhere, aka S.A.D., Standard American Diet.
Paleolithic or Mediterranean diets are recommended (sorry about those greasy, salty Tex-Mex and fast-food disasters and soft drinks).
iow, Joe's toe loss is no accident or bad luck. He's a victim, with due sympathy, of the culture-wide ignorance about how maintain health, how not to inflict yourself with disease.
"We have met the enemy, and he is us."
$200B annually in US is the cost of obesity, obesity-complicated, -caused diseases. There is a epidemic of adult-onset Type II diabetes, removed body parts, dead kidneys/dialysis, cardio-vascular disease, and wheelchairs, especially in in the Hispanic and black communities.
By the time your toes start going dead and cold and unfeeling, or diabetic gangrene and infection arrive, it's crunch time.
Glucose meter finger-stickers are cheap, well under $100, compared to the many $1000s wasted in co-pays and increased insurance premiums (if you can even find a private insurer to give a toe-less diabetic a policy).
lol just wait till obama puts a tax on fatty foods to curb this obese ....
did they amputate anything else besides the toe?
So it's ok to eat Cancer causing preservatives we did not ask for and hormones in our milk?
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"So it's ok to eat Cancer causing preservatives"
You said it, not me. Sounds like hungry stoner logic.
Here are few rules worth trying follow:
If man made it, don't put it your mouth.
If man didn't eat it 15,000 years ago, don't eat it now.
If it doesn't rot, don't eat it. ( "It's dead, Jim" )
I take it you was breast fed baby?
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