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- Type of diabetes
- Type 1
Hi all, I'm new to this site but I was pleasantly surprised at the things I read and saw before I joined. I hope I can educate myself about diabetes and all that comes with it as I must confess that I'm at a, loss it's so vast..!
I am a type 1 relatively new diabetic and was only told around a year and a half . Since then I have been learning to completely change my life with injections of both lantus & apidra and I'm still not stable yet.. One of the concerns I have had especially recently is diabetic neuropathy ....
I have had bad sciatica & pain in my right leg (especially since the birth of my child 4 years ago), but lately (I feel around the past 5/6 months) I have felt excruciating pain the whole length of my leg & in my foot it's like a burning feeling & it's intense.
I've seen a physio & lately had to see a chiropractor as my GP thought I had a slipped disk, however , this nerve pain in my leg & especially my calf & foot , has been underlying before this recent problems for ages and it would just be so helpful if someone who has diabetic neuropathy or & knows about it, might be able to enlighten me as I'm in a lot of pain with it all plus I'm just struggling to know how to differentiate between it being neuropathy or something else.
I am getting an MRI soon just waiting for an app as it takes ages..
Many thanks
Beth
I am a type 1 relatively new diabetic and was only told around a year and a half . Since then I have been learning to completely change my life with injections of both lantus & apidra and I'm still not stable yet.. One of the concerns I have had especially recently is diabetic neuropathy ....
I have had bad sciatica & pain in my right leg (especially since the birth of my child 4 years ago), but lately (I feel around the past 5/6 months) I have felt excruciating pain the whole length of my leg & in my foot it's like a burning feeling & it's intense.
I've seen a physio & lately had to see a chiropractor as my GP thought I had a slipped disk, however , this nerve pain in my leg & especially my calf & foot , has been underlying before this recent problems for ages and it would just be so helpful if someone who has diabetic neuropathy or & knows about it, might be able to enlighten me as I'm in a lot of pain with it all plus I'm just struggling to know how to differentiate between it being neuropathy or something else.
I am getting an MRI soon just waiting for an app as it takes ages..
Many thanks
Beth