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Type 2 Sore Eyes & Dry Skin

Daniel1e

Daniel1e

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Location
Newcastle-under-Lyme
Type of diabetes
Type 2
Treatment type
Tablets (oral)
I've only just been diagnosed this past week and now I am starting to wonder if some other symptoms that I have had over the past year or so is because of my diabetes. I know that my feeling fatigued and tired all the time probably is, and feeling thirsty all the time too.

Around November 2015 the skin around my eyes started to become sore, red and flakey. The doctor said it was probably the cold weather, gave me some hydrocortisone cream and sent me on my way. The cream seemed to help to ease it a little bit and it didn't really cause me to many problems in the spring/summer which seems to tie in that it's the result of cold weather.

I've been suffering with it again over the last few months, until last winter I've never had sore eyes but my skin has been very dry in general and getting worse for two or three years now, but it isn't sore or doesn't cause me any problems. Could this all be symptoms of developing diabetes?
 
Yes. Dr Bernstein says most of his diabetes patients, both types, have slight degree of psoriasis. Rough itchy skin would be that. Not necessarily the fully developed horror.
 
Hi Daniel1e I have been having dry skin on my face recently I put it down to either another part of being diabetic or the metformin I am on. Now I have been applying face cream every morning and it has cleared up but will still carry on using cream.:)
 
Before I went on insulin a year or so ago, despite my efforts, my BG had crept up far too high and just didn't respond to medication, so I spent some time on high numbers. My skin was dry, my nails looked like the layers of puff pastry and my hair was thin and didn't feel healthy. By last summer the insulin was working and my numbers were back into the normal range and my skin improved, my nails are strong and flake free (I've also been rubbing coconut oil in them which I'm also sure helps) and my hair is thicker and my hairdresser said when she cut it recently that it now feels healthy and strong.

So I would suggest, if your blood glucose has been too high for a while, it may well manifest itself as a deterioration in skin, hair and nail condition. Hopefully it will improve when you get your BG under better control.
 
BooJewels said:
Before I went on insulin a year or so ago, despite my efforts, my BG had crept up far too high and just didn't respond to medication, so I spent some time on high numbers. My skin was dry, my nails looked like the layers of puff pastry and my hair was thin and didn't feel healthy. By last summer the insulin was working and my numbers were back into the normal range and my skin improved, my nails are strong and flake free (I've also been rubbing coconut oil in them which I'm also sure helps) and my hair is thicker and my hairdresser said when she cut it recently that it now feels healthy and strong.

So I would suggest, if your blood glucose has been too high for a while, it may well manifest itself as a deterioration in skin, hair and nail condition. Hopefully it will improve when you get your BG under better control.
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Thank you, I never even thought about nails. My nails have been quite flakey for a while but I've always put that down to my job working in screen printing.
 
Bernstein mentions rough elbow skin and ridges on nails, also disappearing half moons on nails, as very slight signs of this. All reversible with normalish BG.

This was in this month's teleseminar, which I just listened to.
 
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LucySW said:
Bernstein mentions rough elbow skin and ridges on nails, also disappearing half moons on nails, as very slight signs of this. All reversible with normalish BG.
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This is true, although I don't have the rough elbows. I'd always had combination skin, verging on oily, until diagnosis, when it became dry, especially my face. I now slather on Moroccan Argan oil every night and morning (less if wearing make-up) and its brought my skin into even better condition than before diagnosis :)

Argan oil is brilliant for hair too
 
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