Eeeek! Why can't I feel my toes?
When the numbness starts kicking in
Diabetic Neuropathy
Phew! That's a big word. What's it Mean?
So when you're not being a good boy or girl and you're continuing to put loads of sugar into your body, or you're just damn unlucky, you can develop Numbness in certain parts of your body...... For a T2D this is called Diabetic Neuropathy.
I first noticed something was wrong with my feet when I was driving my car.
In England, where I live, most people still had a manual gearboxed car. So we needed to depress the clutch pedal to change gear. When I depressed the clutch, I noticed that the feeling in my toes was becoming strange. I was losing feeling. This didn't happen overnight, but over a period of time.
I then started noticing the same numbness when I would put my footwear on. Decreased feeling in the ends of my toes. "Mmmmm! Strange I thought to myself". As time went on I started noticing that after partiularly heavy binges on sugary things, the numbness would get worse.
Again, after a session on the Interweb, it educated me on this. I read the possible causes of the numbness and choose the most likely for my situation. Plus, I also had a word with my sweet long suffering diabetes nurse, who confirmed my suspicions.
So it is now very real!
Not just fuzzy eyes or diabetic hangovers. Now I have actual physical damage!
Is this permanent damage? Will I end up having my legs chopped off? Can I do something to reverse it? Oh the questions kept coming.
Why Can't I Just Kick the Sugar Habit?
And I'll say it again, jusy in case you'd forgotten....
I Have A Sugar Addiction!
Hello Again Reality
So is this reversible?....... Well according to the Experts it is. BUT!...... The longer this condition is fed by sugar, the less likely it is to be reversible.
Oh Joy! self recrimination time again. WHY AM I SOOOOOO WEAK?
Why this. Why that? Blah, blah, blah!
