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@Charliek3 - Sorry for delay, had to flip back and forth between this Thread and Type 2 Thread. Right, so you have only been diagnosed for 5 weeks with Type 2, and you are taking 500mg Metformin twice daily. Do you test your blood sugars? And do you know what your HBA1C was? What is your diet like? Getting your Diabetes controlled may well help to improve the Neuropathy.
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@liam1955, I have only been recently diagnosed with Type 2. 3 years ago I had a Heart scare and ended up being put on Simvastatin at the hospital and then changed a week later to Atorvastatin. After 9 months of Hell on Atorvastatin I stopped it altogether. I went back to my GP who poo poohed my dislike & worry about Atorvastatin and told me to keep taking it. I refused point blank and have been on nothing from then until 5 weeks ago having been put on Metformin & Simvastatin.
I was given a Locum GP although he may be staying with us at that Surgery & he absolutely flew threw my first visit, explaining nothing other than these drugs would give me 20 more years added onto my life!! I explained my chronic pain as well as I could but I don't think the guy took me seriously. I was against going back to Docs as I genuinely fear Surgeries etc but my wife begged me to go after the desperate sweats I was having. Now when I say sweat I mean t-shirt soaking wet in 10 minutes. Anything I tried to do like cutting the grass or any physical stuff had me soaking wet and a strange pain directly in the center of my stomach?!
I do not nor even know how to test my own Blood Sugars nor do I know my HBA1C, ( I am embarrassed to admit I don't even know what that stands for ), but as I say my Locum just told me that something was 63!! He seemed as if this was shocking to him. I don't even know what my cholesterol is either!! Shocking I know...I did try and get everything across to him regarding my pain but it was as if he was programmed to say what he did to me which did not help me in any way. I suppose he just thought I am a typical countryman and that I would take the pills and that would be it. I may be a country lad alright but I would like to know where I stand with Docs and helping myself as much as I can.
My diet has been atrocious in the past as I mentioned earlier. I am a Cabby and I have eaten on the run now for over 25 years. I do not take alcohol but I do smoke, unfortunately, ( My last Vice lol ). But I am well fit and able to cook and prepare food...as have all the men in my family so I am willing to follow this diet you have all been suggesting.
The Diabetes drugs I am on are : Metformin 1,000mg twice daily & Simvastatin 40mg X 1 at night.
Pain Medication : Dihydracodeine 60mg SR 2 pills twice daily
Naproxene 500mg pill twice daily.
Omeprazole 1 daily
I hope you can make out what I am saying...I am not against any medication's such as Statins or Pain Killers but I would like to know would my weird pain & Freezing feet & hands get any better just by taking Metformin? I have never heard that said apart from that young Doctor saying it to me at my last visit. My wife has a Meds Bag full of pain relief but I certainly do not want to be using stuff prescribed to her only although I could do that if I wanted. I want my own Doctor to prescribe me Pain Relief and medication for me and me only. It has got to the point that I have gone to the Doctors but I haven't got anything that helps with my stocking & glove type pain...My back from just above my Bum right down both thighs is painful and itchy. This is a different pain from any I have had relating to my Spinal Injury. This is weird stuff man...like an electric shock that sometimes is there all the time...especially at night in my feet. That is when it is atrocious and no matter what I try I get no relief from it. My pain killers that were given to me for back pain do not even touch this kind of pain. My wife gave me a Pregabalin and that gave me the best nights sleep since I was 16 years old lol...but I never told the Doctor that...Maybe it is just too early in my case to expect pain relief but I don't want to have to continue with this pain for much longer.
Thank you again
@liam1955, for starting this Thread and I really hope more folk come along and maybe pool their pain solutions.