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Complications

I am a 47 year old female with type 1 diabetes who has developed Charcot Foot. My problem is the constant pain I have. My doctor doesn’t believe in any pain medication. Do I have to live the rest of my life with this pain? Can you recommend any help?

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I keep tight control of my blood sugar. If it rises too fast, my eyes feel funny. The eye doctor said it had to do with the lens of the eyes. Will having these experiences which happen quite often to me, cause damage to my eyesight later on?

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I have had Type 1 for 25 years. Can you explain the symptoms of damage to the digestive tract from the disease? Despite a high fibre diet, I have to use microenemas frequently. Could this be a result of having diabetes for so long?

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My two year old son was recently diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes. Since then we have had relatively “good” control of it. This last month however he has started to trend high. Are complications due to high blood sugars in the short term, or do they have to be like that many years?

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My 14 year old daughter was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes two and a half years ago. She constantly has fatigue, stomach pain and high blood sugars.it seems no matter what she does she can’t get her blood sugars to stay down for more than maybe one day at the most. Could the fatigue, stomach pain and high blood sugars be related so something other than her diabetes?

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I am 19, have had type 1 diabetes for over two years, and I have also had sporadic neuropathy in both feet since my diabetes began, related to blood sugar control. I had a foot injury, and after a week of treatment, there isn’t any improvement, and I’m starting to get worried.

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I am 18 years old and was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes a little over two years ago. About a month ago, I was in a car accident and lost a substantial amount of hearing in my ears. Before that, I was having ear infections extremely often. Could that have any connection to my diabetes?

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Like any other parents who have a child with diabetes, I am so worried about my son’s future, especially with regard to potential complications. The more information I get, the more I am confused particularly about those statistics. How reliable are those statistics about diabetic complications? Why does such statistical information vary across different sources?

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I was just diagnosed with retinopathy. I was told it is stable and to come back in one to two years. Should I be concerned? Can my blood sugars help or harm my retinopathy?

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I am only having bowel movements every three days, and it is quite a struggle to have one. Does this sound like gastroparesis? Do you think it is related to diabetes?

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