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Balanitis, please can anyone help?

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Paul Astley

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I'm a 62 year old man type 2 sufferer. Fell in when they dropped the levels under 8.5 about 10 years ago. I manage to keep everything under control with tablets but have had trouble with thrush. This has lead to Balanitis. Have taken it to my doctor (no fun at all) and been given creams. No good. Sent to a specialist who just seems knife happy and I don't fancy that one bit. So to cut a long story short (no pun intended) anybody got any ideas, experience of or success with getting rid of this problem. I'm not in pain, no itching or scars. There were but the creams cleared what there was. The biggest drawback is, well no drawback, if you understand what I'm saying. This is very difficult to explain without making it sound like I'm fooling about but believe me it's real and I'm desperate to clear it up. Please , any thoughts?
 
Welcome to the forum, Paul Astley. I hope someone will be along soon with some ideas to help.
 
If you're saying your HbA1c was bad enough to be diabetic, but not over 8.5 before they told you that you were T2 - this means your BG had been running higher than it should do for quite some time before they actually attached the label.

Generally thrush manifests itself when a person is run down OR has higher BG than they are supposed to. And you usually get rid of it once you have lower BGs for a good length of time. So the question is - what does your day to day BG say about your levels? Or don't you test?

Incidentally was it a steroid cream or an antifungal? Cos steroid creams - and it matters not whether they're applied there or anywhere else - can cause an increase in BG, which then makes getting rid of anything fungal a nightmare ....

But anyway it won't cure the Balanitis, just stop it getting worse.
 
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Hi. Are you sure your blood sugar is below around 11 mmol most of the time? Thrush is commonly caused by sugar dumps in the urine and creams will only help while using them. If your foreskin won't retract then you do need to discuss options with the GP.
 
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