Amputation fingers of the foot ...

Hello everyone!

I just wanted to count my experience with the diabetes that has led me to be in the current situation ...

I find myself in the hospital, recently operated on the right foot, of which I have amputated the first finger and the fifth, where the greatest support and balance of the foot is.

In winter I fell asleep with the button of butane on (something really surreal) and my foot burned, with serious wounds that have come to create an osteomyelitis which has led to the amputation of both fingers.

This year really serious things have happened to the bad control that I have taken for years of diabetes ...

A month ago I also suffered a vitrea hemorrhage that took me a lot of visibility and they have already had to put 2 injections in the eye so that an edema is not extended that have seen me that can be blinded ...

A week ago I had a sugar rise (to 300) without understanding why, but suddenly I started seeing cobwebs and a liquid floating in the eye, so the same thing happened to me as in the other.

I have always lived my life crazy, I like to eat and I like the party and drink.I consider myself an active and healthy person, I have a lot of fruit and vegetables and I like pasta too.But of course, I have never had the awareness of controlling the amounts I consumed ...

As with bread.When I go for a drink with my friends I like to have beer, drink that seriously affects the blood glucose levels ...

I have always said that I preferred to die with 60 or 70 years but live life as I would like, without being enslaved by diabetes ...
Now I regret so much that I have always said ... I'm starting to scare myself with everything that happened to me, besides that it is not the first time I have a warning.I already had a diabetic coma for bad control a few years ago ... I feel that this time is like a final notice, take care that next time it will be worse ...

I just wanted to share my experience ... Diabetes is a demon ... I don't get another adjective, it seems that you are fine but it kills you little by little ... I am aware that I have looked for all this for not having beenresponsible.I have never wanted to live enslaved by a disease and diabetes deprives you of many things ...

I wish I could go back and do it differently ...

Now my goal is to take care of myself ... and keep making a normal life although at first it costs me to walk a little ... I know that this will make me stronger and more aware of what I have.

All the best!

@Estefaniabc32
Thank you very much for your testimony, surely you can help more than one.
I am very sorry what is happening to you, this disease is shit.But as your signature says is never too late to start taking care of yourself.You will get used to the new situation, the human being adapts to everything and little by little you will be encouraged.And the better control you have the better you will find.I send you a lot and here we are for what we can help you.

No one deserves to have diabetes and have to be pending 24/7 of all the functions that an organ must do, it is torture, but it is still in your hands to be able to recover some health.You have all our support!Little by little you will get to the idea, the case is to catch the trick to your body and a lot of willpower.Good luck!<3

@Estefaniabc32 because as you say, you can't go back but if you are in time not to go worse.
It is not easy to control everything 24h but there are truquis to be a little less slave.
Much encouragement, you are very brave when counting it.

@Estefaniabc32, of course you will improve with control, and also the retinopathy treatments are getting better.
And for diabetes, they will soon arrive autonomous bombs that control it very well and avoid complications.
Now you know how you can master better and you will be calmer.
A hug

Cheer up !!, I do not dare to comment, it is not going to be that I put the leg ... in the past I have also renegated my diabetes and I have been not careful for years and now I suffer the consequences ... but a few months ago I decidedChange my life and make a 360º turn, now I am incredible, very healthy and occasionally I allowed a sugar snack, but well the Pepsi Cola Zero I love its flavor and it is as if I put a chute a brainof sugar and the truth is that I feel very good ... you can get it too ...

You do not know how much I understand you, I am also currently convalescent of amputation of three fingers on the left foot.I also click my eyes and have given me a laser in the retina, so I debuted in diabetes (before I did not take care of me or did my analysis and did not know that it was diabetic) but I am optimistic because I have learned to control the glucose and
I see the improvements little by little, it is slow but you have to be positive.I send you a embar

justallero said:
you don't know how much I understand you, I am also currently convalescent of amputation of three fingers on the left foot.I also click my eyes and have given me a laser in the retina, so I debuted in diabetes (before I did not take care of me or did my analysis and did not know that it was diabetic) but I am optimistic because I have learned to control the glucose and
I see the improvements little by little, it is slow but you have to be positive.I send you a hob

I'm very sorry for you too 😥
Can I ask you if you have affected you a lot in your walk?I'm very worried about staying ...

How did you notice that you were diabetic?The symptoms are horrible.Using the disease begins ... I at least remember that I felt very weak and dehydrated all day.I debuted with 8 years.

Well, I'm not yet, I still with my foot with priests and with an inverted wedge bootA biomechanical study in a podological center to make me templates (the other foot also changes the foot
Regarding the symptoms, all this has happened to me not to have any symptoms, in July of last year I made a rubbday they discovered the diabetes (I entered with 13.7 glyc) and amputated my finger, a month in the hospi and then in December it was infected and two more amputations and an open wound in arch and heel, another month in the hospi and then a lotrest but I am almost healed and well, with the glucose very controlled.

justallero said:
Well, I still don't, I still with my foot with priests and with an inverted wedge boot and crutch (mine is being very long for infections), but as I am already on the lineFinal, the surgeon has told me that he already asks for time to do a biomechanical study in a podiatry center to make me templates (the other foot also changes the footprint) and I have an appointment by the end of July, I think I will walk well
Regarding the symptoms, all this has happened to me not to have any symptoms, in July of last year I made a rubbday they discovered the diabetes (I entered with 13.7 glyc) and amputated my finger, a month in the hospi and then in December it was infected and two more amputations and an open wound in arch and heel, another month in the hospi and then a lotrest but I am almost healed and well, with the glucose very controlled.

Hopefully you recover soon and you can walk well again !!I think mine will go a little for long too ... I imagine that I will also have to make templates and everything, because I have amputated my fingers that give greater support and balance ... but anyway.May everything be that and don't go anymore.Thank you very much for sharing your experience!

I always say that at least I have foot!Because in December the first option was Ampute, but they decided to give it a chance and, here I am, almost cured and with foot!

@Estefaniabc32 Much encouragement and thank you very much for sharing with us what happened to you.The important thing is that you have set out to overcome this and get down to work, to control your diabetes from now on.You have already proposed it, so you'll see how everything comes at now.With effort and decision you will get it.And as they have told you up there, there are more and more advances that will allow us all to improve our controls and lead a better life.
Courage and prompt recovery for you too @acaballero

justallero said:
I always say that at least I have foot!Because in December the first option was amputate, but they decided to give it a chance and, here I am, almost cured and with foot!

But did you have a previous peripheral neurupatia?

I am very sorry what happened to you.Take care from now on and I hope that within your circumstances you can recover.Testimonies like yours I think they are very important for others to be aware of what may happen that this disease is shit and silent until you already find the injuries or have an accident and it does not cure.Much encouragement

@Acaballero
Much encouragement to you too.What a bad luck that you did not find out about diabetes until this, go shit.
The good thing is that you will control how everything is going well.

Isabelbota said:
@endallero
Much encouragement to you too.What a bad luck that you did not find out about diabetes until this, go shit.
The good thing is that you will control how everything is going well.

Thanks, we are!

We have already gone through initial experiences all the personnel that we go here.Yes, it is true that this disease is shit.You can never forget that it is there.Always.But that does not assume that we cannot do what we want, without forgetting the control.Everything is possible.It is just a matter of adapting to reality and not hiding our heads under the arm.
Much encouragement and keep trying that our life can live it with the intensity that living deserves.And we know that there are no second opportunities to retrace the path made.So to amend the present since the future does not exist.

@Estefaniabc32 I understand you years without taking care of myself and for 2 years in rootOne day he makes you pay, I would also change many things but you can't, you have to take care of you to the fullest, believe me you will win you and not the disease

pyrri said:
encourageAnd now I suffer the consequences ... but a few months ago I decided to change my life and make a 360º turn, now I am incredible, very healthy and occasionally I allow a sugar snack, but well I love pepsi tail.Its flavor and it is as if I put my brain a sugar shot and the truth is that I feel very good ... you can get it too ...

@Pyrri I am glad that you have improved neuropathy, for me it is still a cross, I remember that you said in a message that you took a magnesium supplement and you were doing well.Is so?Can you tell me which one to start taking it?Because neuropathy is taking my life.Thank you so much

phosphorero said:

pyrri said:
encourageAfter I have renegated my diabetes and I have been taking care of and now I suffer the consequences ... but a few months ago I decided to change my life and make a 360º turn, now I am incredible, very healthy and occasionally I allow myselfA hinge of sugar, but well the Pepsi Cola Zero I love its flavor and it is as if I put my brain a sugar shot and the truth is that I feel very good ... you can also get it ....

@Pyrri I am glad that you have improved neuropathy, for me it is still a cross, I remember that you said in a message that you took a magnesium supplement and you were doing well.Is so?Can you tell me which one to start taking it?Because neuropathy is taking my life.Thank you very much

Hello, I also have polyneuropathy, very slight, they gave me a vitamin B supplement that is making less ardor on my feet than it was what I felt, I tell you if the data serves you, greetings!