Diabetic Nightmare

[Mazzer53]

I have been floating in a Diabetic wilderness for years with no proper diagnosis since 2001. I am now confirmed as a T2 diabetic. I am having real problems with it. I am suffering with terrible neuropathy in my feet so I could not tell you the last time I had a proper 8 hour sleep. It feels like my feet have been dipped into fire and this happens every night so the sleep deprivation is awful. I am on medication for this [Pregabalin and Duloxetine] but nothing is working. I have replaced one addiction to chocolate with hazlenuts and walnuts and can get through 1 bag of each of these a day. I am in a terrible mental state and every day and despite seeing a counsellor I can see nowhere out of this living nightmare. I do exercise and go to the gym but this depends on whether I get a good sleep the previous night. Last night I didn't get to sleep until 5.30 am so no chance of any sort of exercise which was sad as I do enjoy it. Can anyone please tell me that all this will get better as my life's feeling rather worthless at the minute and if it wasn't for my husband keeping my spirits up I would sink fast. Sorry to be so downbeat but this is how it's been the last year or so.
Thank you everyone
Maz

 

[Fallenstar]

Hi Mazzer
Sorry to hear how you are suffering but you have come to the right place for help and support, there are some good people on here that are in the same boat.
I'm Type1 and have been for a lot of years and I had terrible Neuropathy in my lower legs and feet. It used to feel like someone was pouring boiling hot water down my lower legs under the skin, and I used to wear troughs in the carpet from rubbing my feet along to try and alleviate the dreadful hot itchy burning feeling ,like the worst chilblains but under the skin, that I could not get to , they drove me to distraction at times :twisted:

I turned this around , not so much with my HbA1C , that has always been pretty much the same but with adopting the healthiest lifestyle I could muster, I really changed it around with Eating as clean and as natural and as low carb as I could, and running far distances every day...now it might sound extreme...But I was on a hiding to nowhere, a really nasty slippery slope. the pain and my health was in dire straights so it was put up and shut up, or do something about it.

I have reversed the Neuropathy, not a hint of it, nothing. I am fit and healthy and have the best labs I have ever had. It was not easy, and at first it was tiny steps because I was fat at that time and found it hard to do it...but EVERYDAY I did, and pushed it on until now I do 70/80 miles a week hill runs, and Marathons all this from hobbling half a mile with bad knees ,feet ,legs and feeling yuk.

So the days you feel :mrgreen: ignore it ,push on and do it, there is only you who can . No one really gives two _____ if you do it or not, but you do, and you will reap the benefit from not feeling that pain and discomfort every day. Read on here, I am in touch with people who have turned it around from the most horrible complications from this disease with diet and exercise ,it can be done.

All the very best of luck, it's nasty, but you can change it