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Sorry, It was a typo as meant dvt. Some good news, it is a disc herniation 3rd to 4th intervertebral space, leading to sciatica, but because of the pain and stress, I went into an adrenal crisis, my BG dropped to 1.3! so I needed a 100ml intramuscular cortisol injection, plus a glucagon...

I woken up at 1:30am screaming in pain, had to ring 999, and amazingly diazapam really helped but now I'm in hospital I'm on 3x10 Ormorth which is helping, but still in bad pain, I've had Bloods and will be having scans, they think it coup be DVP or a blood clot. But Addersons can make pain wores.

It's not edema, lower leg and foot is normal, but I had a little swelling on my right ankle after starting hydrocortisone, but thats gone now. This was in the most pain I've ever thought possible this morning, it's like my nerve endings were on max pain, I was shouting and screening for about 2...

I'm having problems thinking in so much pain, a blow torch to my leg is the only way to describe it. Really killing me.

Thank you both, my GP and a diabetes doctor both checked me over today, and can see that my left leg has swollen up a lot, but wouldn't even tell me what they think it is. They asked me to do stretching, and keep taking my tramadol along with hydrocortisone and diazepam on waking, so before I...

Hi all, a little update, around 2 weeks ago I reduced my Hydrocortisone from 40mg to 20mg in one day like I was instructed by the hospital and next day started feeling unwell, and fell asleep missing my last dose, well I woke up in the start of an Adrenal crisis, luckily I had someone with me to...

Thank you for the positive feedback. It really does bring me happiness knowing that this forum is full of caring people, and I'm so glad I found this place :) But what do you make of this? This is A1c testing this year, every 3-4 weeks. I've just read a letter from my endocrinologist to my GP...

I feel so good !! As I now want to do things again, but I'm still too weak to go out to far, or do too much, but today I started deep cleaning my kitchen, I got about half done, tomorrow I should finish it, then bit by bit I work my around my flat, I've filled a 120lt bin today with tin cans and...

Thank you all so much, and I can't tell if it's the relief of having a proper diagnosis or the new medication working, but thinking about it, it must be a bit of both as I'm feeling unbelievably better already after just 4 days of treatment, the main thing is my chest pains that I've been having...

Hi all, I have a major update, and a massive relief for me, as now I have been diagnosed, and I am feeling better after just starting the treatment and just knowing. I've been talking to my GP about going to Dignitas and ending it, but then a few days later, I couldn't believe I had said this...

Yes, I've confirmed with a finger pricker, but the Dexcom alerts me, and I don't really eat many meals, I graze all day long, every 10–15 minutes I eat something, this is mostly to stop the pain under my bottom ribs, and in my back etc, from my pancreas. On the 11th I'm having this morning...

Sadly, only 2 surgery rooms were open, and the protesters stopped doctors from entering Torbay hospital, as stated by the BBC news. And my sister who works there as a RN nurse said less than 10% of doctors worked, my dad was sent away until today, he's been bleeding from both ends all this time...

What are lift tablets exactly? And I really hope so to, my next appointment with my diabetic Dr is just under a week away, but right now I'm worried about my dad who has internal bleeding shown by jet black stools and blood, along with being sick with blood etc, he's in pain, he's bed bound and...

Just a little update, I'm still doing OK my BG has mostly been between 4.0 and 7.0, but after eating only carbs for just under two days I got it to drop to 3.5, and then one hour after taking 6 Dextro tabs it dropped more to 3.0, then I eat two jacket potatoes with cheese coleslaw and mackerel...

I'm now drinking a good 3+ litres of just water each day, but I know what dehydration is really like as back in Apr I ended up having delirium, from struggling to take on water, as I was being sick with diarrhoea etc. That's a handy chart, I'll keep hold of that. :)

Thanks EllieM & grantg, I did like you said and fitted the Dexcom One 10 hours ago, and just scanned it with my phone, but it was way off, It was reading 6.8, when my finger prick meter was showing 4.9, so I calibrated it, but I'm not going to even look at it again until tomorrow, I give it some...

Hi EllieM, yes I set an alarm for 3 hours sleep, I was not too worried, as I was doing this for 30 days before, as I was asked to by a diabetic nurse. On waking, BG was 5.0, I then had a soft bake bar and 8 more Dextro tabs and back to sleep, and on waking up today my BG was 4.6, meaning my...

I'm not testing in the middle of the night, I'm waking up to eat surgery carbs, like I was doing when my BG was staying under 3.0, but before I had a Libre 2 on, so its alarm kept going off, as they were dropping to 2.3 every night. I'm about to go to bed, and I've already had 8 Dextro tabs...

As I'm in my 4th day with normal BG (4.5 to 7.6 today), I'm going to switch back to my high fast carb diet tonight to see if it drops again, I will only be doing this from around 9pm tonight, till midday tomorrow, this may help the endocrinologist who's working with my GP and the diabetic Dr...

Thank you, @Lamont D, I'll look up the sub forum for reactive hypoglycaemia, and what you are describing does sound like what I'm going through, as I explain below. And it really helps me just getting someone's opinion, and what you and others have gone through, all feed back has helped with...