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Type 2 Feeling the cold.

matty_d

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Location
Aylesbury
Type of diabetes
Treatment type
Tablets (oral)
I was diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes earlier this year, after having been feeling the symptoms for a year or so. I've grown accustomed to the cold hands & feet (I have osteo-arthritis, which doesn't help), but boy do I feel the cold. I've been putting the heating on in the morning for ten minutes to take the chill off, but my wife in particular accuses me of turning the place into a sauna. I'm usually fairly active, but is this sensitivity to the cold Diabetes related?
 
I get very cold, especially my hands and feet compared to others in the house. I only really noticed this about a year after I was diagnosed - but each winter it seems to get worse.

I have now taken to waring bed socks and thin wooly gloves every night (very romantic!) and get accused of putting towels on the floor of the bathroom to stand on. I think it's to do with poor circulation at the extremities due to high sugar damaging the capillaries. I'm hoping it can be improved with good BG control.
 
I lost a load of weight after being diagnosed.
I was freezing after that. I moved to somewhere warmer.
 
After losing salad of weight, I now feel the cold!
Which is no good, as I work outside!

Never use to feel it!

Or I could be feeling my age!
 
nosher8355 said:
After losing salad of weight, I now feel the cold!
Which is no good, as I work outside!

Never use to feel it!

Or I could be feeling my age!
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Still big - and a lot to lose but feeling very cold especially in the fingers and toes !
 
That was well rhymed sir!

Read it again, you'll see it!
 
Me to, I am getting colder as I get thinner ... and I live in a cottage with no central heating Brrrrrrrrrr
 
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