Bondedge
Newbie
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- Type of diabetes
- Type 2
- Treatment type
- Tablets (oral)
Was recommended this website by a non-diabetic friend that most likely searched it during days I was desperate for help.
I've been living as a type 2 unknowingly for quite a while! I had a root canal surgery that went wrong and was in a deal of pain for almost 2 months. Whenever I took the prescribed celebrex pain meds, I noticed my legs would shake and later on become very very numb and feel like its stiff and bloated. Doc said it was normal though it should have been towards my nerves in my tooth being treated. 2 months of trying to move as least as possible during the treatment that I had to endure that later became a super-infection and had the strongest antibiotics as the last week for treatment. Only comfort I had during the pain was food and a very inactive 2 months lifestyle.
Some of you might have thought and figured it out by now that these complications and why it progressed and moved the way it did! Bacteria loves glucose and diabetes have a high risk of infection. The numbness in my legs due to chronic high blood glucose and beginning of nerve damage (diabetic peripheral neuropathy), pain medication not working as intended.
A month after my ordeal, I had a physical exam for internship as a medical technologist. Shockingly I had a 4+ glucose in my urine which the professional advised me to later then take a fasting blood sugar test. I was afraid of possible outcome and delayed the test for 5 days, but during those 5 days, I ate only vegetables and eggs twice a day. The day of the testing, I was given the result of a 198mg/dL FBS. Shocked me to realize the present condition of my own body! I then took my HbA1c for the average glucose of 3 months, and to heart stopping shock, I was given the result of 10.4!
"It couldn't be... Both my parents are not diabetic, and my body is scrawny. Hell, I'm underweight!"
I then realized why I had sharp thundershock pains plaguing me when trying to sleep at night with random attacks during the day.
I was poisoning my body with chronic high glucose to the point of peripheral neuropathy.
I can barely feel my left leg from the knee down, and my right leg is still alive but suffering the immense pain.
It's spread to my forearm and have tingling fingers which is depressing when I try to extract blood from patients at the hospital that makes it increasingly difficult.
I've consulted 4 doctors and each of them tell these things:
1) Control hyperglycemia with a control diet
2) Take vitamin B complex twice a day for the neuropathy
3) Take metformin thrice a day
4) Continue eating 160-180g of carbs a day or 60g per meal
5) Diabetes is irreversible
I've been on a 0 to less than 10 carbs per day diet for about a month now because I've noticed that anything above that, seriously activates my neuropathy and pain like a thunderstorm brewing until the uncontrollable thunderstrike hits you repeatedly.
I've tried the 160-180g control when I still had feeling in my left leg, and now almost lost it and losing other parts of my periphery before I made the change.
I take metformin once a day and only eat once a day with an incredibly strict yet filling 0 to low carb meals and still take vitamin B complex as prescribed though I'm not sure if its helping at all since my neuropathy is still progressing.
And I now live with a mindset that diabetes is reversible.
Its only been 2 months after I've taken my first HbA1c test instead of the recommended 3 months so I'm aware of the false increase for that 1 month of stuffing my mouth with carbs before my surgery, but I've reduced my HbA1c down from 10.4 to a 7.5! At the 3 month mark, I'm hoping for an even better result due to my determination and diligence to my body.
Although I've been fighting this for a few months now, I'm still extremely new to this apart from what my doctors and my studies during college tell me. I'd love to hear and learn from those going through this outside of the textbook, and even outside of medicine.
I'm hoping you will all accept me into your community as a person who desperately seek knowledge and information, guidance and a hand to reach out to when people around me can't.
Thank you for taking your valuable time to read the recent life-story of a random stranger online.
Now a single question: What is the best and monetarily, at least a little easier to maintain, glucometer? Student with a low budget trying his best here haha
I've been living as a type 2 unknowingly for quite a while! I had a root canal surgery that went wrong and was in a deal of pain for almost 2 months. Whenever I took the prescribed celebrex pain meds, I noticed my legs would shake and later on become very very numb and feel like its stiff and bloated. Doc said it was normal though it should have been towards my nerves in my tooth being treated. 2 months of trying to move as least as possible during the treatment that I had to endure that later became a super-infection and had the strongest antibiotics as the last week for treatment. Only comfort I had during the pain was food and a very inactive 2 months lifestyle.
Some of you might have thought and figured it out by now that these complications and why it progressed and moved the way it did! Bacteria loves glucose and diabetes have a high risk of infection. The numbness in my legs due to chronic high blood glucose and beginning of nerve damage (diabetic peripheral neuropathy), pain medication not working as intended.
A month after my ordeal, I had a physical exam for internship as a medical technologist. Shockingly I had a 4+ glucose in my urine which the professional advised me to later then take a fasting blood sugar test. I was afraid of possible outcome and delayed the test for 5 days, but during those 5 days, I ate only vegetables and eggs twice a day. The day of the testing, I was given the result of a 198mg/dL FBS. Shocked me to realize the present condition of my own body! I then took my HbA1c for the average glucose of 3 months, and to heart stopping shock, I was given the result of 10.4!
"It couldn't be... Both my parents are not diabetic, and my body is scrawny. Hell, I'm underweight!"
I then realized why I had sharp thundershock pains plaguing me when trying to sleep at night with random attacks during the day.
I was poisoning my body with chronic high glucose to the point of peripheral neuropathy.
I can barely feel my left leg from the knee down, and my right leg is still alive but suffering the immense pain.
It's spread to my forearm and have tingling fingers which is depressing when I try to extract blood from patients at the hospital that makes it increasingly difficult.
I've consulted 4 doctors and each of them tell these things:
1) Control hyperglycemia with a control diet
2) Take vitamin B complex twice a day for the neuropathy
3) Take metformin thrice a day
4) Continue eating 160-180g of carbs a day or 60g per meal
5) Diabetes is irreversible
I've been on a 0 to less than 10 carbs per day diet for about a month now because I've noticed that anything above that, seriously activates my neuropathy and pain like a thunderstorm brewing until the uncontrollable thunderstrike hits you repeatedly.
I've tried the 160-180g control when I still had feeling in my left leg, and now almost lost it and losing other parts of my periphery before I made the change.
I take metformin once a day and only eat once a day with an incredibly strict yet filling 0 to low carb meals and still take vitamin B complex as prescribed though I'm not sure if its helping at all since my neuropathy is still progressing.
And I now live with a mindset that diabetes is reversible.
Its only been 2 months after I've taken my first HbA1c test instead of the recommended 3 months so I'm aware of the false increase for that 1 month of stuffing my mouth with carbs before my surgery, but I've reduced my HbA1c down from 10.4 to a 7.5! At the 3 month mark, I'm hoping for an even better result due to my determination and diligence to my body.
Although I've been fighting this for a few months now, I'm still extremely new to this apart from what my doctors and my studies during college tell me. I'd love to hear and learn from those going through this outside of the textbook, and even outside of medicine.
I'm hoping you will all accept me into your community as a person who desperately seek knowledge and information, guidance and a hand to reach out to when people around me can't.
Thank you for taking your valuable time to read the recent life-story of a random stranger online.
Now a single question: What is the best and monetarily, at least a little easier to maintain, glucometer? Student with a low budget trying his best here haha
(Took me a few months to figure it all out, because I didn't find this forum straight off.)
