Stubbed Toe and BM going down

[mchphoto]

Hi
I recently stubbed my toe and said ouch and thourght nothing more of it, but 2 days later I have a slight infection in the big toe, so my question is while the body is trying to repair this infection does this bring your blood sugars down a bit, as over the past few days I have felt a bit light headed more often than I like and un one case I had a hypo with a bm of 2.8. My eating habits have not changed much if any, so still the same amount of food and I had my sugars under control. (Type 2 with Metformin 1g per day)

I am off to the Doctors Monday AM for an emergency apt as I also have some swolen throat glands and I think both these things together might be bringing down my blood sugars a bit faster than normal, whilst the body is trying to treat 2 infected parts of my body and is using my normal sugars to fight this.

Any constructive comments please

Thanks

MIchael

 

[blothom]

Please get your toe checked out asap. I lost a nail on my big toe, and got an infection, but didn't notice because it didn't hurt. By the time I realised, because my toe had swollen and gone purple (about 2-3 weeks after) I was admitted to hospital for an emergency amputation. If it had been left even until the next day I might have lost my foot or worse. I am type 2, since 1999, but had ignored my diabetes for the last two years, and had very high sugar levels, which I now have to control with insulin (1 week down, rest of my life to go) but it was a hard learned lesson. Hopefully with your BM being lower this won't be such a problem, but better to be checked out. Good luck :thumbup:

 

[mchphoto]

I went straight to the doctors and got it checked out, it has now healed (thank goodness) and they are sending me to the podiatrist for a check up and advice on general foot care.

My toe was hurting and therefore I looked at it, saw the problem and got it sorted asap

As they say in all the clinics and online if you have a problem with your feet see the doctor or medical profesional ASAP do not leave it thinking it will go away!

thanks

Michael