Chronic pain & Diabetes while sick sucks even more
August 29, 2008 8:13pm
My diabetes goes crazy when I get sick ..the high sugars and then the pain from the nerve damange gets intensified by the high blood sugars, …
BTM
2:12pm, January 1, 2009
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Married to a great woman who has stood by me through a lot & Dad to a 12 year old boy that I love just as much.
Married to a great woman who has stood by me through a lot & Dad to a 12 year old boy that I love just as much.
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Close Chronic Pain
diabetes related nerve damage
Treatments
- Cymbalta Not Working
- currently maxed on dosage only dampening pain for a few morning hours
- Hydrocodone Somewhat Helpful
- about an hour to two at a time, but then right back to pain
- Spinal Cord Stimulator Working / Worked
- With pain meds I can function much closer to normal with this implant though still not enough foot coverage. Some days I can skip a dose or two of hydrocodone!The sensation can get to you if you keep it on for a long period of time at least for me. BUT glad to have it in my fight against the constant pain absolutley.
Close Diabetes Type 1
Diagnosed in Sept 1999 as Type 2 but now Doctors say I am type 1. Have run the gauntlet with medicines but the pump helps best. I Also have periphreal nueropathy in hands, feet, legs. Have had spinal cord sttim implanted and that helps the legs great but not so much on the feet.
Treatments
- Insulin Pump Working / Worked
- When pain and stress and illness undercontrol this is the key for me. Basal rate at 2units per hour and alternate with 1.8 units per hour at night.
- Lantus Working / Worked
- Used only on sick days or days when blood glucose is extreme to supplement pump basal rate--have to be careful though.
