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hello everyone, I'm new here.
I was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes ages 5, so 13 years ago now! I'm 18, and in all honesty I really neglected my diabetes through my teen years, I missed appointments and my blood sugars were always above 15! I didn't realise the impact this would have on me, in the last 2 months I have stopped drinking alcohol, fizzy drinks, stopped smoking, I'm now an A* diabetic I guess, now I'm suffering lots of hypos! However my overall bloods have come down from 82 to 66 in the last few months, which I'm told is a great improvement !
However the complications of this dramatic tight control has been really gnarly, my eyesight has deteriorated massively, my eyes are constantly seeing everything grainy and pixelated, it's worse in dark environments and my eyes get worse when I have hypos too, my eye screening says I have diabetic maculopathy but the damage will be reversed if I keep up this tight control (phew!), my nurse has said she thinks my eyesight problems are related to my body not dealing with the dramatic reduction of sugar in my blood? I have also been suffering awful aches and pains in my legs and feet whenever I walk anywhere! It's so painful sometimes I have to sit down and take a minute before I can continue, the nurse did not seem very reassuring on this and said it is likely to be related to the blood sugar drop again? has anyone else experienced this?
I feel very alone at the moment and have been isolating myself from seeing people because I feel like I can't walk places without being in pain! I have been told my eyesight problems will resolve themselves within a couple of months, so I'm not as worried anymore, but the pains and weird sensations in my legs are really worrying, can anyone relate to these complications from gaining control of their blood glucose? and do you think the nurse was correct in relating the eyesight problems and leg pain to the control change? Sorry to ramble, needed to talk to someone!
THANK YOU in advance!! X
I was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes ages 5, so 13 years ago now! I'm 18, and in all honesty I really neglected my diabetes through my teen years, I missed appointments and my blood sugars were always above 15! I didn't realise the impact this would have on me, in the last 2 months I have stopped drinking alcohol, fizzy drinks, stopped smoking, I'm now an A* diabetic I guess, now I'm suffering lots of hypos! However my overall bloods have come down from 82 to 66 in the last few months, which I'm told is a great improvement !
However the complications of this dramatic tight control has been really gnarly, my eyesight has deteriorated massively, my eyes are constantly seeing everything grainy and pixelated, it's worse in dark environments and my eyes get worse when I have hypos too, my eye screening says I have diabetic maculopathy but the damage will be reversed if I keep up this tight control (phew!), my nurse has said she thinks my eyesight problems are related to my body not dealing with the dramatic reduction of sugar in my blood? I have also been suffering awful aches and pains in my legs and feet whenever I walk anywhere! It's so painful sometimes I have to sit down and take a minute before I can continue, the nurse did not seem very reassuring on this and said it is likely to be related to the blood sugar drop again? has anyone else experienced this?
I feel very alone at the moment and have been isolating myself from seeing people because I feel like I can't walk places without being in pain! I have been told my eyesight problems will resolve themselves within a couple of months, so I'm not as worried anymore, but the pains and weird sensations in my legs are really worrying, can anyone relate to these complications from gaining control of their blood glucose? and do you think the nurse was correct in relating the eyesight problems and leg pain to the control change? Sorry to ramble, needed to talk to someone!
THANK YOU in advance!! X