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Message: <blockquote data-quote="scotlady" data-source="post: 1732775" data-attributes="member: 123816"><p>I've had type 1 for 38 years with no problems until I encountered a new consultant. She said I had too many hypos (I could cope with them and previous consultants were quite content with my results) and insisted I should reduce my insulin saying "Be kind to yourself. You won't get complications after all these years." and "If your sugars go too high, just relax, they will sort themselves out". Utter tosh but I lost all confidence in my own judgement and thought I should follow her advice - resulting in a period of high blood sugars and then what I thought was cystitis on holiday. It was bad. When I got home I tried antibiotics from the GP and the test results were negative. This was 6 months ago during which time I got extremely frustrated and upset by my GPs lack of help and her putting me on antidepressants saying my "mood" was causing my symptoms rather than the other way round and trying to increase the strength of the pills. I reduced them to a minimal dose and still take Tramadol and sleeping pills at night but have become convinced that this Vulvodynia is a direct result of that episode of high blood sugars. I am now trying to keep my blood sugars lower, as they were before this happened and can only hope that I can eventually get back to "normal" as the last 6 months has been a truly hellish time during which I have been nowhere except the GPs, the supermarket and recently the hospital gynaecology department. It took the GP 4 months to refer me to the gynae dept. I tried every cream there was and had allergic reactions to all except Yes vaginal moisturiser which is water based and organic. It is available on the NHS and comes as an externally applied gel and little prefilled applicators for internal use - which may help Liftupjoe.</p></blockquote><p></p>

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