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Copepod
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Welcome to the forum, Jodie4eva.
With symptoms as troublesome as you describe, you need to see your GP for proper diagnosis and treatment. We're not medics, and can't diagnose from a few typed words.
Once you get a diagnosis, advice and treatment, we can help further.
In the meantime, general advice for people with type 2 diabetes is to exercise more, eat less carbohydrate, lose body weight and take medication if needed. Exact details depend on what you are doing already.
With symptoms as troublesome as you describe, you need to see your GP for proper diagnosis and treatment. We're not medics, and can't diagnose from a few typed words.
Once you get a diagnosis, advice and treatment, we can help further.
In the meantime, general advice for people with type 2 diabetes is to exercise more, eat less carbohydrate, lose body weight and take medication if needed. Exact details depend on what you are doing already.
Northerner
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Hi @Jodie4eva, welcome to the forum 🙂 Sorry to hear about your diagnosis - how did it come about? Did you have these pains prior to your diagnosis? Are you on any medication for your diabetes, and have you taken any other steps to try and bring your blood sugar levels under control? If it's something that has started happening after your diagnosis then it's possible that it is something called 'transient neuropathy' - I suffered from this after my diagnosis as my levels improved, particularly at night, and it is caused by the body's nerves becoming more accustomed to the better blood sugar levels after a period of being high. Eventually, as my control became steadier, the pain subsided. As @Copepod says, however, you do need to see your doctor or nurse to discuss your concerns.
Let us know how you go on, and if there are any other questions or concerns you have 🙂
Thank you all for your advice. I know I need to see doctor but when I asked the other day said they don't have appointments for weeks grr. So I take metformin for my diabetes and I don't remember having pains before I was just wondering if anyone had experienced anything like it
Ljc
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Can you get an on the day appointment, it may be called something different at you're practice this is for things that suddenly crop up and need checking quickly, you usually have to phone up as soon as they open.
It often means you see the duty DR rather than the ones you may prefer.
Copepod
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Severe pain is an emergency, so that's what you need to say when you phone to request an emergency / urgent appointment.
Until you can see your GP, it would be worth asking a pharmacist - they're the experts on medicines and effects, and can usually see you within a few minutes of asking at chemist counter. There is always a chemist open for a few hours in each area on a Sunday - details of duty chemist are posted on doors of closed chemists, plus online.
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