Pins and Needles and Feeling Cold

hi guys,

Just need your input on a couple of things as i am still learning

1. Pins and Needles - I tend to get these in my feet after a long walk - it lasts four about 15 minutes. Is this normal.

2. Feeling cold - I seem to be feeling a lot colder than normal lately - I will say in work "wow it so cold today" and people are saying they are not a bit cold - is this normal too? Are diabetics colder in general.

and finally, maybe this is my imagination but I seem to have become very pale looking since my diagnoses - is this normal or is it all in my head. :lol:

thanks

Thanks Crofty for your input.

I have taken to wearing a bit more bronzer to make myself look alive - I feel I look really pale and yukky now compared to before. But the bronzer did the trick.

I only got cramps once and I don't know if it was diabetes related - I was diagnosed on a Wednesday and I asked the doctors what would I do - she told me to come back to her on the following Monday but to just act normal until then and to cut out the sugar. I had a wedding that weekend - I "acted norma" and had a good few drinks at the wedding (cider of course, the worst possible drink I now know, but didn't at the time) - I went to bed that night - I woke up in the middle of the night where my big toe had turned upwards and was bending back towards my knee - it was the worst cramp I ever got and it was ghastly to look at - I couldn't move it and I had to have help getting out of bed to walk on it, it was that sore. Anyway the cramp went and I went back to sleep, only to wake up an hour later with the same thing - on the other foot - this one was so bad that for about three days afterwards the back of my leg was sore, even to it was my big toe that "curled". But I don't know if that was due to diabetis or not. flippin sore dose tho.