My foot care was done by a excellent lady on the annual checks ups, very early on she was concerned about ingrowing toe nails and a hospital appointment to have them sorted out. The hospital refused to do them as they said the circulation in my feet was to bad to do.
Back to the podiatrist and she rechecked the circulation and said it was ok and re-booked the appointment, turned up at the hospital to be met by the podiatrist and her assistant, discussed the options and decided I want the nails completely removed permanently. A few mins later job done and was out of the hospital pain free from the trouble some nails.
Where things went wrong, was as it's an annual check up I had a rough patch with a total lack of concern about my diabetes from the doctors. I was diagnosed with mild nerve damage, which crept up really unnoticed. My diabetes ran wild constantly hit the high teens and 20's, this lead to a rapid increase in the nerve damage.
Unfortunately as part of the nerve damage I ended up with a golf ball size blister, which I never felt and had to go to a drop in centre to get treatment. I did get told off a bit for not reporting this to the podiatry team as they want to double check what was happening.
I forgotten the time scale as a lot was going on like changing docs family problems, but it ended up being classed as a high risk patient and placed on 2 monthly check ups. As I was one 2 monthly checkups and some where along the lines I ended up seeing another podiatrist who was my regular contact at the check ups. My appointments got moved to an alternative day, which meant I saw different podiatrists every time. I asked to have my appointments back on the previous rotor and now see the same lady every time.
I know now that if I have any unexpected problems, the team are a phone call away and can be seen very quickly. Only pity is that the nerve damage is permanent at the high risk level and if I had got the help I needed from the GP's / DN's at the one practice I might not be in the high risk group. Being in the high risk group also means that I no longer have the annual feet check up as any problems can be spotted at the 2 monthly check ups or some times they are stretched to 3 months.
Back to the podiatrist and she rechecked the circulation and said it was ok and re-booked the appointment, turned up at the hospital to be met by the podiatrist and her assistant, discussed the options and decided I want the nails completely removed permanently. A few mins later job done and was out of the hospital pain free from the trouble some nails.
Where things went wrong, was as it's an annual check up I had a rough patch with a total lack of concern about my diabetes from the doctors. I was diagnosed with mild nerve damage, which crept up really unnoticed. My diabetes ran wild constantly hit the high teens and 20's, this lead to a rapid increase in the nerve damage.
Unfortunately as part of the nerve damage I ended up with a golf ball size blister, which I never felt and had to go to a drop in centre to get treatment. I did get told off a bit for not reporting this to the podiatry team as they want to double check what was happening.
I forgotten the time scale as a lot was going on like changing docs family problems, but it ended up being classed as a high risk patient and placed on 2 monthly check ups. As I was one 2 monthly checkups and some where along the lines I ended up seeing another podiatrist who was my regular contact at the check ups. My appointments got moved to an alternative day, which meant I saw different podiatrists every time. I asked to have my appointments back on the previous rotor and now see the same lady every time.
I know now that if I have any unexpected problems, the team are a phone call away and can be seen very quickly. Only pity is that the nerve damage is permanent at the high risk level and if I had got the help I needed from the GP's / DN's at the one practice I might not be in the high risk group. Being in the high risk group also means that I no longer have the annual feet check up as any problems can be spotted at the 2 monthly check ups or some times they are stretched to 3 months.
