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Type 2 Phimosis
- Thread starter Clan
- Start Date
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- 1,467
- Location
- Suffolk UK
- Type of diabetes
- Don't have diabetes
- Treatment type
- I do not have diabetes
- Dislikes
- Intolerance, selfishness, rice pudding
Hi @Clan I had this problem in 1965 at the age of 7. I made my way to the surgery to see Dr Smith (Shoreham-by-sea) who was a portly "Georgian" squire enveloped in smoke. He asked me what the problem was and I replied "There's something the matter with my little thing"
"Well get it out then boy." I had already been type 1 for 6 years and poorly controlled. Dr Smith gave me Betnovate cream and it did the trick. However, I had to use it regularly throughout my childhood and adolescence since it recurred, accompanied by a fungal itch. When I finally got a glucometer the size of a housebrick in 1978, my control improved dramatically and, thank God, so did the problem! I'm afraid that keeping a good HbA1C really is the answer to fending off all that diabetes throws at you. I eventually said goodbye to it in August 2013 when I had a Kidney/Pancreas transplant at Addenbrooke's Hospital Cambridge.
"Well get it out then boy." I had already been type 1 for 6 years and poorly controlled. Dr Smith gave me Betnovate cream and it did the trick. However, I had to use it regularly throughout my childhood and adolescence since it recurred, accompanied by a fungal itch. When I finally got a glucometer the size of a housebrick in 1978, my control improved dramatically and, thank God, so did the problem! I'm afraid that keeping a good HbA1C really is the answer to fending off all that diabetes throws at you. I eventually said goodbye to it in August 2013 when I had a Kidney/Pancreas transplant at Addenbrooke's Hospital Cambridge.
Guzzler
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- Type of diabetes
- Type 2
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- Diet only
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- Poor grammar, bullying and drunks.
Resurgam
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- Type of diabetes
- Treatment type
- Diet only
It can be a complication of thrush - and thrush can be a result of uncontrolled diabetes or a treatment for diabetes which causes glucose to be excreted in the urine.
If there is already considerable scaring then circumcision may be the only option, due to the narrowing effect - but there may well be other options and treatments - with some care and attention you might not need it.
If there is already considerable scaring then circumcision may be the only option, due to the narrowing effect - but there may well be other options and treatments - with some care and attention you might not need it.
Daibell
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Just before diagnosis when my BS was still very high I had candida. My stupid GP didn't seem to know about the connection between diabetes and thrush so just gave me ointment and didn't diagnoses the diabetes. As soon as my BS came right down the candida magically disappeared.
