Posted by MrBratt on May 26, 2006, at 10:59:22
In reply to Re: oh heck. my first foot sore as a diabetic. » Dinah, posted by shasling on May 26, 2006, at 7:18:56
You guys will have to excuse me, but I am new here, However after reading the last post I felt I needed to add my two cents. I have been diabetic now for about 5 years. In the last 2 or 3 years I have had problems with sores. I have not gotten any on my foot yet. I say foot cause I lost my leg in a really bad car accident in 1993. However the sores I get I am assuming are from sitting in a wheel chair most of the time. The first sore I got was in between my stump and my crotch ( hopefully that is a nice way of saying it ) When it started to get big and painfull I went and saw my Doctor at the time. When I showed him the sore, he told me not to worry about it and that it would pop on it's own, with that being said I went on a trip and was back home after a week. on the way back the sore had gotten to the size of a softball before it finally "popped" on it's own. I ended up in the emergency room and found out that I was lucky because it could have popped inside and sent the poison through my body and could have killed me. That sore stuck me in the hospital for 2 weeks with me being on IV antibiotics and very painfull dressing changes. After I left the hospital I spent 3 weeks after that having nurses come to the house and do more painfull dressing changes. If I learned anything from this is that don't hesitate to see a good Doctor about the sores, I now have a infectious disease Doctor that looks after these sores that I get. Depending on how deep the sore is it has to be packed so that it will heal from the inside out, if it does not heal like this it can form a pocket and lead to another infection and start all over again. My problem is that no one can figure out why I get these sores. Hopefully this helps out atleast a little bit, Also be carefull, being diabetic it is easy to get an infection, once an infection sets in it will raise your blood sugars which in turn will make the infection worse making your sugars go even higher, talk about a viscios circle
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