I am a diabetic type 2 on insulin - 5 injections a day and so is my ex husband. 2 years ago i suffered a heart attack which shocked me as i was only 40 years old and had no stresses in my life really.
I had been suffering from what i would describe as nerve pain - similar to what u would get if you had a trapped nerve in your neck/shoulder. Following several visits to hosp desperate for pain relief that you cannot get over the counter at a chemist - I was diagnosed as having minor heart attacks and luckily for me the biggest one whilst in the hosp so received treatment quickly. Even then i argued with the doctor that i could not be having a heart attack - whereby he had to give me a lesson on reading ecg printouts to prove it to me.
IT seems that diabetics do not always have the same symptoms as a non diabetic when having a heart attack due to nerve damage/neuropathy - some have little or no symptoms till the heart begins to fail. I ended up having emerg stent operation to clear arteries and am thankful that i was in the right place at the right time - so i really want to raise awareness of this serious complication in diabetics
My ex husband had another serious complication in that he got a blister through playing a days golf in new golf shoes which didnt heal very fast - as is another complication of diabetes (slow healing) - infection had set in behind the scabbing of the blister and due to neuropathy he couldnt feel any pain so wasnt aware of the problem until gangrene began to set in. I found him one afternoon slurring his speach and his foot had swollen in a matter of hours - the next day he had half his foot amputated - so once again i would like to raise awareness that slow healing needs to be monitored severely to ensure that infection does not set in especially in those suffering neuropathy/nerve damage as the sufferer does not feel anything going wrong. These complications apply to any diabetic whether type one or type 2
I had been suffering from what i would describe as nerve pain - similar to what u would get if you had a trapped nerve in your neck/shoulder. Following several visits to hosp desperate for pain relief that you cannot get over the counter at a chemist - I was diagnosed as having minor heart attacks and luckily for me the biggest one whilst in the hosp so received treatment quickly. Even then i argued with the doctor that i could not be having a heart attack - whereby he had to give me a lesson on reading ecg printouts to prove it to me.
IT seems that diabetics do not always have the same symptoms as a non diabetic when having a heart attack due to nerve damage/neuropathy - some have little or no symptoms till the heart begins to fail. I ended up having emerg stent operation to clear arteries and am thankful that i was in the right place at the right time - so i really want to raise awareness of this serious complication in diabetics
My ex husband had another serious complication in that he got a blister through playing a days golf in new golf shoes which didnt heal very fast - as is another complication of diabetes (slow healing) - infection had set in behind the scabbing of the blister and due to neuropathy he couldnt feel any pain so wasnt aware of the problem until gangrene began to set in. I found him one afternoon slurring his speach and his foot had swollen in a matter of hours - the next day he had half his foot amputated - so once again i would like to raise awareness that slow healing needs to be monitored severely to ensure that infection does not set in especially in those suffering neuropathy/nerve damage as the sufferer does not feel anything going wrong. These complications apply to any diabetic whether type one or type 2
