I got a diagnose T2 diabetes 3 moths ago. I got diagnosed with 15,3 blood sugar and the slow sugar (HbD-what ever) 93.
I was morbidly overweight (BMI 40 at worst a year ago) I had started to lose weight a little ago before my diagnosis (too little, too late). Now 3 three months later I managed to lose some of the weight so my weight is down to BMI 37. Still some way to go before out of the danger zone of >=35 BMI for diabetics. First month I tried without insulin and got by blood sugar to 10 in a week Metaforin and Januvit pills. Then I tried for months to get down to acceptable levels with diet and exercise and got to between 7-9. And accepted I could not fix it with healthy living alone and started insulin.
I took 2-4 units and that managed to drop my morning blood sugar over 1 unit. To 6-7 then at advice of my diabetes nurse I upped the dosage to until it was at 16-18 units of insulin which dropped by morning sugar levels to under 6, holding pretty steady 5.5-5.7. And I was pretty satisfied.
This was about what I expected. My mom have had diabetes 2 for for almost 50 years and does not eat that well and is quite overweight. She never had any secondary problems with the diabetes. She is now 80 and her health has collapsed, but that only happened like at her age 78. So I was expecting fairly minimal impact of the diabetes to my daily life assuming I start taking better care of myself than her, lose weight, take medication regularly and monitor blood sugar. So only with a minor inconvenience. Given that I am (ovo-lacto) vegetarian so I only needed to cut cheese , wheat and sugar from my diet and I should be ok. Exercise is a bit more tricky for IT worker. 1st month after diagnosis was my summer vacation and exercise was not a problem, going back to work turned out problematic for the exercise. So after initial little shock I accepted and adjusted my life.
Everything was ok.
Until I caught a flu, I think, I got fever and blood sugars jumped to 6.5 one morning. And my feet started to lose little feeling and there was this numb area in the ball of the feet. And I panicked. My only hope was to do everything right and not to get the secondary diseases. I was in a pretty dark place. And no support from healthcare system (Finland*). I was in a pretty dark place I mean I was doing everything right and and I was supposed to be doing fine. Now only 3 months after diagnose, all the time I was supposed to improve and be "safe" I started getting nerve issues in my feet. I am only 47 ***!. I though and hoped I would be at least 65 before any secondary problems. At this rate I would not make 50 before I am crippled. I hoped to at least to have some life and to be able to work until pension age before I get crippled by this disease. Also started having little blurry vision. Which scared be even more. I can cope with having both my legs amputated. But having my legs rot away little by little with constant unbearable pain in not what could cope with. I also stared getting tingling and itchy sensation in in my feet, legs and hands. For me brains, eyes and hands are non-negotiable, everything else to a degree I might cope losing. So I got time to diabetes doctor who was on absolutely no use "it should not be this soon". After a week I managed to reach my diabetes nurse and confirm that I can increase the insulin. Increasing the insulin helped the leg issues and lessened other symptons a lot. After 2 weeks fever stared to reside and by legs feel better, almost ok just by time I got to meet the diabetes nurse. She tested my legs an in both there was one area I could not feel the test pin. She told me my legs were bloated, most likely an reaction to the insulin. She also noted my blood pressure was high (Level 1 hypertension) which I have had borderline for 5 years. I noticed and I hope that the fever and stress have made everything much worse and I might recover from this to "normal" health for Type 2. I guess I now have to face it that I need to start blood pressure medication as that is really bad with diabetes. But then again so are blood pressure medication bad for Diabetes and diabetes medication. So I fear it is going to be fairly fast downward spiral for me. I am a bit of a hypochondriac, but to to degree of it manifesting any other symptoms other than itchy feeling on skin and raise hearth beat and blood pressure due to the stress I am causing myself with it.
I am writing this for two reasons; one to tell others about the effects of the fever and feet bloating due to it causing this effects that hopefully are temporary. I was feeling really ok for few days and once the nurse explained it to me I afterwards recognized the general "Stuffy" feeling and numbness up my legs are a them being bloated. I never before had that so I did not recognize the feeling. The few healthy days my legs felt lighter, without the sensation of pressure. And my my toes had almost normal sense of a feel. I started tuning down my insulin intake to 20 and my morning blood sugar dropped to 4.9. I was happy for the 2 days I felt ok. Now Again I am feeling feverish and my blood sugar shot up to 6.5 and now my legs feel pretty unpleasant again. So the other reason I am telling this is to get answers from others possibly going through this: are these effects normal for flu and go completely away once the fever goes away or are these effects the first indications of the already started secondary complications ? What is to be expected ? All the information says Peripheral Neuropathy and other complications of diabetes can get worse within few days, week, years or it might take decades. I would like to hear from someone that had similar experiences and effects.
* I came to UK forum as I lived for a while in UK and our supposedly great healthcare system is in ruins. Like now the national Diabetes union forums are down with "Bandwidth exceeded".
I was morbidly overweight (BMI 40 at worst a year ago) I had started to lose weight a little ago before my diagnosis (too little, too late). Now 3 three months later I managed to lose some of the weight so my weight is down to BMI 37. Still some way to go before out of the danger zone of >=35 BMI for diabetics. First month I tried without insulin and got by blood sugar to 10 in a week Metaforin and Januvit pills. Then I tried for months to get down to acceptable levels with diet and exercise and got to between 7-9. And accepted I could not fix it with healthy living alone and started insulin.
I took 2-4 units and that managed to drop my morning blood sugar over 1 unit. To 6-7 then at advice of my diabetes nurse I upped the dosage to until it was at 16-18 units of insulin which dropped by morning sugar levels to under 6, holding pretty steady 5.5-5.7. And I was pretty satisfied.
This was about what I expected. My mom have had diabetes 2 for for almost 50 years and does not eat that well and is quite overweight. She never had any secondary problems with the diabetes. She is now 80 and her health has collapsed, but that only happened like at her age 78. So I was expecting fairly minimal impact of the diabetes to my daily life assuming I start taking better care of myself than her, lose weight, take medication regularly and monitor blood sugar. So only with a minor inconvenience. Given that I am (ovo-lacto) vegetarian so I only needed to cut cheese , wheat and sugar from my diet and I should be ok. Exercise is a bit more tricky for IT worker. 1st month after diagnosis was my summer vacation and exercise was not a problem, going back to work turned out problematic for the exercise. So after initial little shock I accepted and adjusted my life.
Everything was ok.
Until I caught a flu, I think, I got fever and blood sugars jumped to 6.5 one morning. And my feet started to lose little feeling and there was this numb area in the ball of the feet. And I panicked. My only hope was to do everything right and not to get the secondary diseases. I was in a pretty dark place. And no support from healthcare system (Finland*). I was in a pretty dark place I mean I was doing everything right and and I was supposed to be doing fine. Now only 3 months after diagnose, all the time I was supposed to improve and be "safe" I started getting nerve issues in my feet. I am only 47 ***!. I though and hoped I would be at least 65 before any secondary problems. At this rate I would not make 50 before I am crippled. I hoped to at least to have some life and to be able to work until pension age before I get crippled by this disease. Also started having little blurry vision. Which scared be even more. I can cope with having both my legs amputated. But having my legs rot away little by little with constant unbearable pain in not what could cope with. I also stared getting tingling and itchy sensation in in my feet, legs and hands. For me brains, eyes and hands are non-negotiable, everything else to a degree I might cope losing. So I got time to diabetes doctor who was on absolutely no use "it should not be this soon". After a week I managed to reach my diabetes nurse and confirm that I can increase the insulin. Increasing the insulin helped the leg issues and lessened other symptons a lot. After 2 weeks fever stared to reside and by legs feel better, almost ok just by time I got to meet the diabetes nurse. She tested my legs an in both there was one area I could not feel the test pin. She told me my legs were bloated, most likely an reaction to the insulin. She also noted my blood pressure was high (Level 1 hypertension) which I have had borderline for 5 years. I noticed and I hope that the fever and stress have made everything much worse and I might recover from this to "normal" health for Type 2. I guess I now have to face it that I need to start blood pressure medication as that is really bad with diabetes. But then again so are blood pressure medication bad for Diabetes and diabetes medication. So I fear it is going to be fairly fast downward spiral for me. I am a bit of a hypochondriac, but to to degree of it manifesting any other symptoms other than itchy feeling on skin and raise hearth beat and blood pressure due to the stress I am causing myself with it.
I am writing this for two reasons; one to tell others about the effects of the fever and feet bloating due to it causing this effects that hopefully are temporary. I was feeling really ok for few days and once the nurse explained it to me I afterwards recognized the general "Stuffy" feeling and numbness up my legs are a them being bloated. I never before had that so I did not recognize the feeling. The few healthy days my legs felt lighter, without the sensation of pressure. And my my toes had almost normal sense of a feel. I started tuning down my insulin intake to 20 and my morning blood sugar dropped to 4.9. I was happy for the 2 days I felt ok. Now Again I am feeling feverish and my blood sugar shot up to 6.5 and now my legs feel pretty unpleasant again. So the other reason I am telling this is to get answers from others possibly going through this: are these effects normal for flu and go completely away once the fever goes away or are these effects the first indications of the already started secondary complications ? What is to be expected ? All the information says Peripheral Neuropathy and other complications of diabetes can get worse within few days, week, years or it might take decades. I would like to hear from someone that had similar experiences and effects.
* I came to UK forum as I lived for a while in UK and our supposedly great healthcare system is in ruins. Like now the national Diabetes union forums are down with "Bandwidth exceeded".
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