You could ask your GP to check your pedal pulses, do a Doppler as suggested or if he can what they call an ankle brachial test where they compare the blood pressure in your arms to that in your legs, do a calculation and if it's less than 0.9 then you may have reduced circulation. Albeit not sure how that work if your veins are leaking as they're putting your leg under pressure when the cuff inflates.
Vascular clinics often prefer to do a toe pressure reading in diabetics because the nature of circulatory damage from diabetes can cause calcium deposits in lower leg arteries which stiffens the arteries and can give higher readings than actual. Maybe that would be better in your case.
Glad they were able to fix yours Jean, because after an MRI with dye I was told they couldn't risk any intervention with a stent or bypass due to the state of the arteries, as it was highly unlikely to work and could risk losing a leg sooner. Was pretty disappointed to say the least at this cheery diagnosis. However so far so good.
Vascular clinics often prefer to do a toe pressure reading in diabetics because the nature of circulatory damage from diabetes can cause calcium deposits in lower leg arteries which stiffens the arteries and can give higher readings than actual. Maybe that would be better in your case.
Glad they were able to fix yours Jean, because after an MRI with dye I was told they couldn't risk any intervention with a stent or bypass due to the state of the arteries, as it was highly unlikely to work and could risk losing a leg sooner. Was pretty disappointed to say the least at this cheery diagnosis. However so far so good.