brian hughes
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I have had type 2 diabetes now for nearly 20 years .
Firstly I have never been over weight and had been careful with my diet due to problems with Hiatus Hernia for 30 years or so and also a family history on my fathers side of heart problems with him and his father both dieing of heart attacks in their mid 50s but on my mothers side both her and her father died in their late 90s. Type 2 diabetes came as a surprise after testing for cholesterol and any heart problems , about 20 years ago .
Firstly the diabetes was controled by diet but for over 10 years but there was a slight rise in cholesterol levels and so i was put on medication. Medication levels have been fairly constant but with the addition of glimepiride about are 5 years ago.
Over the last 10 years i have been troubled with trigger finger in both hands , treated with cortisone injections initally but after 2 injections in each of the problem fingers over a shortish period of time with no lasting relief of the problem , i then have had to have 5 fingers operated on over a period of time, with possible more problems needing attended to in other fingers now .
At the same time as i was being treated for trigger, i had problems with tennis elbow in first one, then the other elbow , again treated with cortisone . In one elbow 2 treatments of cortisone releived the problem but in the other elbow i ultimately had 4 injections, the last one was either an injection or an operation . Since then no problems.
About 6 years ago i started getting problems with my shoulder and was diagnosed with frozen shoulder. An injection did not solve the problem and so an operation to free the tendons and cut away a small bone calcium spur that was partially causing the problem was carried out. Now i am due to have the second shoulder operated on , again an injection did nort releive problem and xrays show small calcium bone growth that appears to be causing the problem.
Now over the last year i have started to have problems with one knee , xrays show a small bone spur that is giving quite a bit of pain , not when i am walking or using my legs but when i am sitting down on in bed ,where i cannot rest one leg on top of the other because of the pain on a pressure point above the small bone spur.
Initally i had researched that because i have type 2 diabetes, i have a higher incidence of getting tennis elbow and trigger finger. Subsequently confirmed to me by by one of the specialists that i have seen.
Now my question is, does type 2 diabetes also give me a higher likelyhood of having frozen shoulder with the associated bone growth and also my current knee problm and associated bone growth
Firstly I have never been over weight and had been careful with my diet due to problems with Hiatus Hernia for 30 years or so and also a family history on my fathers side of heart problems with him and his father both dieing of heart attacks in their mid 50s but on my mothers side both her and her father died in their late 90s. Type 2 diabetes came as a surprise after testing for cholesterol and any heart problems , about 20 years ago .
Firstly the diabetes was controled by diet but for over 10 years but there was a slight rise in cholesterol levels and so i was put on medication. Medication levels have been fairly constant but with the addition of glimepiride about are 5 years ago.
Over the last 10 years i have been troubled with trigger finger in both hands , treated with cortisone injections initally but after 2 injections in each of the problem fingers over a shortish period of time with no lasting relief of the problem , i then have had to have 5 fingers operated on over a period of time, with possible more problems needing attended to in other fingers now .
At the same time as i was being treated for trigger, i had problems with tennis elbow in first one, then the other elbow , again treated with cortisone . In one elbow 2 treatments of cortisone releived the problem but in the other elbow i ultimately had 4 injections, the last one was either an injection or an operation . Since then no problems.
About 6 years ago i started getting problems with my shoulder and was diagnosed with frozen shoulder. An injection did not solve the problem and so an operation to free the tendons and cut away a small bone calcium spur that was partially causing the problem was carried out. Now i am due to have the second shoulder operated on , again an injection did nort releive problem and xrays show small calcium bone growth that appears to be causing the problem.
Now over the last year i have started to have problems with one knee , xrays show a small bone spur that is giving quite a bit of pain , not when i am walking or using my legs but when i am sitting down on in bed ,where i cannot rest one leg on top of the other because of the pain on a pressure point above the small bone spur.
Initally i had researched that because i have type 2 diabetes, i have a higher incidence of getting tennis elbow and trigger finger. Subsequently confirmed to me by by one of the specialists that i have seen.
Now my question is, does type 2 diabetes also give me a higher likelyhood of having frozen shoulder with the associated bone growth and also my current knee problm and associated bone growth
