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Emma3312

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So, our feet, what should we be looking for. Google is great, there's lots of advice, but they all seem to talk about type 2. I'm type one, I don't like feet at the best of times so I don't spend I great deal of time even looking at my own. I do have a small concern, a part of one of my nails has gone a black colour. Now to be honest it dose look a bit like a burse but it's not healing. Is this something I should be worried about?
 
Over the last two months, I have experienced two incidents: 1) stubbed my toe and a small area of my toe nail became bruised - (it's still bruised but is unchanged and there's no pain), and 2) I impaled the heal of my right foot with a fork while hurrying to answer the phone - (which resulted in a dead flap of skin which I removed and an open wound in my foot).

In the latter case, the good news is that it hurt - (I felt the pain of the injury) - and the wound had a blood supply - (evidenced by the red tinged tissue). I cleaned it with soap and water, had my husband look at it, then applied Neosporin, covered the wound with a large, 1 1/2" bandage, then put on my socks and shoes to protect it during the day when not sleeping. I also removed my dishes from the floor next to the desk in my home office.

I repeated my foot care routine every 1 to 2 days when I took a shower, including having my husband monitor my progress.

During the week and a half to two weeks that followed, I never had an infection and the wound slowly continued to heal. I do not have neuropathy. Foot is fine. I'm fine. Relieved, of course.

If you do not have neuropathy in your feet, you'll likely be fine. That said, if you're unsure of what to do, that's what your doctor is there for.
 
If in doubt, check it out. Don't let something get out of control before you act.
 

Hi,
I'm not into feet either..
But.
Feet. You goggled your concern. To be frank, T2, T1? It don't matter!
Your toes, your foot, the leg is what does matter..

In short? I agree with the guy's advice above... Get it looked at professionally.
 
leslie10152 said:
If in doubt, check it out. Don't let something get out of control before you act.
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Don't rely on google, or the good intentions of others who truly care. If there is unexplained pain or discomfort, swelling, loss of sensation, discoloration or evidence of skin infection that does not heal - act fast - act NOW!
 
@Emma3312 apologies, it was wrong of me to assume you'd stubbed your toe. My bad. Couldn't hurt to let the doctor have a look at it. And it will give you an opportunity to ask more questions. Bring a list.
 
Emma do you see your Diabetic nurse every six months? The Diabetic nurse will check your feet for feeling using a small pointed stick something like a cocktail stick. She will ask you to look away and tell her when you feel the stick touching your foot. Also she will check your pulse, in your feet, with a hand held machine you will hear your pulse when she hits the right spot. Providing you attend the DSN appointments you will be fine.
 

If not been diagnosed 6 moths x
 
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Winnie53 said:
@Emma3312 apologies, it was wrong of me to assume you'd stubbed your toe. My bad. Couldn't hurt to let the doctor have a look at it. And it will give you an opportunity to ask more questions. Bring a list.
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No, I haven't hurt it x
 
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Its really best to get your toe looked at .. the stress of not knowing is not going to do you any good ..
 

Hi there! Not a foot fan either, but check your feet frequently for anything new, any strange pains or pins and needles. You should have them checked by your diabetic nurse a couple of times a year. They will check your pulse and ask you if you can feel a sharp or blunt feeling, probably over ten areas on each foot.

Much as I'm not a fan i would like to keep my feet! So do take care
 
I have had two bouts of sepsis both serious and both before I was diagnosed. In both instances it came from the fact that the nail on my little toe does not seem to grow straight

I was lucky that the sepsis did not lead to amputation, but I was hospitalised and seriously ill, so I know any type of foot infection needs looking at very carefully and very quickly.
 

Emma - As the others have said, feet are too important to entrust to Dr Google, if you have already identified something not quite right, that has changed.

Just to comment though, if you have a bruise under a nail, itdoes't disappear in the same way as a bruise on your arm or leg. A bruise is a bleed, which the body normally just resorbs, but under the nail, the blood is trapped between the toe and the nail plate, so it grows up the nail, as the nail grows, or the toenail drops off.

I had such an injury on a big toe a couple of years ago, and having been reassured by the podiatrist, I was advised to photograph it, then keep checking it to ensure the bruise move up the toenail, until it was gone. It took a few months for that to happen.

But, honestly, you have to have it checked out to ensure you're watching what you think you are.
 

Thank you everyone for your advice, I'm a first aider and had no trauma to that foot. It dose resemble a burse but I'm 99.9% sure that's not what it is. I'm quite newly diagnosed so I'm not very clued up on what to look out for.
 
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