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christine boardman

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Hi. This is my first time on the forum. I wondererd if anybody out there suffers with bad pain. I have quite bad neuropathy due to having had diabetes for quite a few years and not knowing! I collapsed in 2006 and ended up in the ITC at hospital. Septicemia due to gall bladder and all the nice swollen organs to go with it. Diabetes was found to be off the scale! well my last meal was trifle..I was reading on the forum about the palpatations some of you have. I was also diagnosed with Atrial Fibrilation. I had to laugh cos for three days the Docs kept coming up with these new problems. Anyway, for the past 6 months I've had a lot of pain in my upper joints.It is getting worse. I just wondered could the diabetes be in any way responsible for this? Reading this back to myself its sounds like I should start thinking about a plot in the cemetery! I am very active though or should say, I try to be active! "No laughing please." I'm 30 inthe head,60 in the body but feel like I'm 75! I suppose I could elaborate on all the sites of pain around this rather thin body of mine but I didn't want my first forum to be more boring to you than it seems to me on reading it back.
Thanks for your time....ChrisB
 
Hi Christine, welcome to the forum :-)

Dont worry nobody is laughing at you, good for you for being 30, lets try and bring the body a bit closer to that age too then huh?
I wonder if it is the Simvastatin that is giving you all that joint pain, several people have reported that their joints have improved after they stopped this medication, but wait, dont stop just now, ask for a cholesterol test and see if it is really absolutely necessary to take Simvastatin, there are other ways that you can try to reduce cholesterol, discuss with your doctor.

Re neuropathy, it is not just consistent long term high bg levels that give you neuropathy, it could also be due to vitamin/mineral deficiency or even long term use of aspirin can cause this.

What are your readings like, what about your diet, what do you eat, do you take a good vitamin/mineral supplement as a kind of back up? Cut out all the horrible transfats and consider cis-oils, add cinnamon to your diet and try to keep those joints moving, just gentle exercise might help. You may wish to consider taking alpha-lipoic acid and benfotiamine, both these supplements can help with neuropathy, I was suffering for years to the point of being in a wheelchair, but I am fine now so it may be worth a try, but please do not self-medicate, try and get as much information together as you can and always discuss with your medics before you take anything new or stop any medication.
So do a search in this forum on cis-oils and cinnamon, and have a good read around here, there is so much to learn from other people's experiences and information shared, confusing and overwhelming at first but you will soon work out what appeals to you and devise your own regime, and remember there is also a lot of trial and error involved, we are all individuals and what works for one person might not work for the next.

You have a positive outlook and a sense of humour, you will achieve things I am sure, so stay 30 or whatever age you want to be, age is only a few scribbles on your birth certficate and means nothing.

All the best

Karen x
 
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