Look Out For These Less Well Known Complications of Diabetes
Wednesday April 23, 2008
Diabetes is a chronic disease that can cause many serious complications. Numbness and tingling in your feet or hands (neuropathy), kidney failure (nephropathy) and vision problems (retinopathy) which can lead to blindness, are the most well-known complications.
But there are more complications than meet the eye. What are some of the hidden dangers of diabetes? Be on the lookout for these complications... read more.
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Comments
i read your blog with great interest however there are so many complications that you neglicted to mention.
less well known and life altering but not necessarilly life threatening, however some are.
i have been a diabetic for over 35 years and suffer from some of the much more heard of complications and some of the not so normal complications.
i have been treated for impotence for several years and have been treated with the entire spectrum of these treatments from the penile vacuum pump, pills, penile injections to finally a penile implant. not as good as the real thing but adaquite.
now dont forget the inability to ejaculate once i do get an erection. all that work with no pleasureable payoff. a real disapointment.
there are the infections that you did mention but what about the rashes that come along with the infections?
there are also the dry skin that is cracking and causes potential for still more infection that may lead to infection that strikes the bone and therefore limb and life threatening.
a rather nasty one that you have never mentioned except in a manner that is not exactly correct. i have had a1c’s less than 6.7 for many years and rarely is my sugars over 250, that is the inability to feel the low bloodsugars. the lowest i have ever had was 29! and i did not feel it nor did i pass out and i know other diabetics that have the same problem, so it isnot from constantly high sugars and then getting them down to a normal range.
certainly there are other complications that i didnot mention however these are the ones that i have not heard mentioned in any way other than in extensive reading that is time comsuming and laborious.
people like myself come to your blog/advice column for information that is simple, easy to find and understand. you are not doing the job effectively, just giving the same info that any doctors office will give out for free and saying the same over and over again is just not doing the job we expect from experts.
just tell the bitter truth about this disease and let the information fall where it may.
regards
dave