New T1 aches and pains

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Hi all,
My first ever post here. I don’t know any type 1 diabetics in person so I brought my curiosity here
Hope anyone reading this is well 🙂
I was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes last September at the age of 19 I’m still very new to
It and definitely not come to terms with my diagnosis but I’m working on it, during my diagnosis I was feeling some sharp pain in my heel which my gp advised I do some exercises to stretch out the muscle such as roll a cold tin under my foot, recently I have been walking allot to and from work and i have had allot to do on the weekends, the pain is back it’s a very sharp pain that shoots down both legs through to my HELO and once I’ve sat down its extremely painful to get back up, the pain comes and goes throughout the day and it’s constantly there first thing in the morning and night :( I’m not sure if this is normal and just apart of being a diabetic but my sugar levels have been higher than usual over the past week so I’m not sure if that’s what’s causing it, any advise would be hugely appreciated from people that are more experienced , I just wish I was more aware of the changes and down side to diabetes other than hypos and hypers

Thanks
 
Hi and welcome to the forum. I'm sure a few Type 1 folk will be along at some point but there are a couple of thing which might explain your pain, not necessarily connected to diabetes. One is plantar fasciitis which tend to affect the heels and the arch of the foot, the other could be your Achilles tendons which run up the back of your heel and can become tight especially if you have been walking up hill a lot. It would be worth you asking for a podiatrist appointment to diagnose the problem as there is treatment that should ease it if it is either of those. Pain shooting down your legs could be sciatica.
Make sure you are wearing comfortable shoes when walking.
 
Leadinglights said:
Hi and welcome to the forum. I'm sure a few Type 1 folk will be along at some point but there are a couple of thing which might explain your pain, not necessarily connected to diabetes. One is plantar fasciitis which tend to affect the heels and the arch of the foot, the other could be your Achilles tendons which run up the back of your heel and can become tight especially if you have been walking up hill a lot. It would be worth you asking for a podiatrist appointment to diagnose the problem as there is treatment that should ease it if it is either of those. Pain shooting down your legs could be sciatica.
Make sure you are wearing comfortable shoes when walking.
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Thanks! Yeah I have been walking up hill quite a fair bit recently, im hoping it passes over soon I’ve never been this achey before it’s very annoying in all honesty and just constantly on my mind
Your response has given me a reason to buy some new shoes 🙂
Thanks again
 
The pain, even if it is unrelated to diabetes, can definitely cause elevated BG. Any stress, be that from a medical condition, emotional responses or just every day worries is a natural candidate for affecting BG. The stress generates extra hormones such as adrenalin or cortisol and these trigger a release of glucose from your liver or even from muscles if the liver's glucose store is depleted.

I can't offer any suggestion about easing the original pain, I'm afraid. But while it could theoretically be from a form of diabetes generated neuropathy, I think that is unlikely.
 
Newbetic said:
Hi all,
My first ever post here. I don’t know any type 1 diabetics in person so I brought my curiosity here
Hope anyone reading this is well 🙂
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Sorry, should have said Welcome to the forum!
Newbetic said:
I was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes last September at the age of 19 I’m still very new to It and definitely not come to terms with my diagnosis but I’m working on it, during my diagnosis I was feeling some sharp pain in my heel which my gp advised I do some exercises to stretch out the muscle such as roll a cold tin under my foot, recently I have been walking allot to and from work and i have had allot to do on the weekends, the pain is back it’s a very sharp pain that shoots down both legs through to my HELO and once I’ve sat down its extremely painful to get back up, the pain comes and goes throughout the day and it’s constantly there first thing in the morning and night :( I’m not sure if this is normal and just apart of being a diabetic but my sugar levels have been higher than usual over the past week so I’m not sure if that’s what’s causing it, any advise would be hugely appreciated from people that are more experienced
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Newbetic said:
I just wish I was more aware of the changes and down side to diabetes other than hypos and hypers
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There are a couple of books that I and others have found very helpful for insulin dependent diabetics. I think both are easy to read and glean information from, yet each has a different style. They are "Think Like a Pancreas" by Gary Scheiner and "Type 1 Diabetes in children, adolescents and young adults" by Dr Ragnar Hanas; don't be put off by the title of the 2nd one perhaps being more appropriate for youngsters - it's not and the explanations are valid for any age group, including me!

As a T1 you are in this for the long haul so consider yourself in a marathon, not a sprint. D is complicated and managing it equally complicated, with a huge and steep learning curve. But it does get easier, you will find yourself routinely making judgements and decisions about how you manage, that today can feel pretty daunting. There is a wealth of experience on this site and feel free to ask questions - any question, no question is stupid - we've all been Newbies once and understand how something that might feel trivial is actually not so and can become very frustrating.

There will be "real T1s" along soon. I'm T3c and akin to T1, but have no pancreas following surgery as part of my treatment for pancreatic cancer. So I'm wholly insulin dependent, but don't have your auto-immune problem (nor being in any form of honeymoon phase with an ailing pancreas generating bursts of natural insulin to add further confusion).

Have you got Libre?
 
Proud to be erratic said:
Sorry, should have said Welcome to the forum!



There are a couple of books that I and others have found very helpful for insulin dependent diabetics. I think both are easy to read and glean information from, yet each has a different style. They are "Think Like a Pancreas" by Gary Scheiner and "Type 1 Diabetes in children, adolescents and young adults" by Dr Ragnar Hanas; don't be put off by the title of the 2nd one perhaps being more appropriate for youngsters - it's not and the explanations are valid for any age group, including me!

As a T1 you are in this for the long haul so consider yourself in a marathon, not a sprint. D is complicated and managing it equally complicated, with a huge and steep learning curve. But it does get easier, you will find yourself routinely making judgements and decisions about how you manage, that today can feel pretty daunting. There is a wealth of experience on this site and feel free to ask questions - any question, no question is stupid - we've all been Newbies once and understand how something that might feel trivial is actually not so and can become very frustrating.

There will be "real T1s" along soon. I'm T3c and akin to T1, but have no pancreas following surgery as part of my treatment for pancreatic cancer. So I'm wholly insulin dependent, but don't have your auto-immune problem (nor being in any form of honeymoon phase with an ailing pancreas generating bursts of natural insulin to add further confusion).

Have you got Libre?
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Hi!
Thanks for the reply this forum has been amazing the support on here is pretty epic! I’ll definitely look into the books because I feel like I really am struggling at the moment but like you said this will stay with me for the rest of my life I need to figure out a realistic way of coping with it, I have lost so much motivation over the past few weeks and feeling as if I’m really letting myself down, having no one to talk about it with is super stressful. I do have a libre, it’s an absolute life saver!!
 
Hi @Newbetic and sorry to hear about your heel pain. Is it under your heel - ie the bit you put on the floor - or is it at the back of your heel - ie very low down on the back of your leg?

If it’s the latter, it might be your Achilles’ tendon. They can be very troublesome and need careful care. If it’s on the bottom of your heel, then have you looked at your footwear to see if that’s contributing? I know it sounds daft but the wrong shoes can cause a surprising amount of pain. They don’t have to be fashion shoes or anything weird to cause pain. Sometimes they can be normal, innocent-looking shoes that just don’t suit you. As an example, I did a lot of walking in wellies because I’d walk along country roads to get to an area to dog-walk which was often muddy. Just that daily walk on the roads with thin-soled wellies was enough to cause foot pain and backache over time.
 
Inka said:
Hi @Newbetic and sorry to hear about your heel pain. Is it under your heel - ie the bit you put on the floor - or is it at the back of your heel - ie very low down on the back of your leg?

If it’s the latter, it might be your Achilles’ tendon. They can be very troublesome and need careful care. If it’s on the bottom of your heel, then have you looked at your footwear to see if that’s contributing? I know it sounds daft but the wrong shoes can cause a surprising amount of pain. They don’t have to be fashion shoes or anything weird to cause pain. Sometimes they can be normal, innocent-looking shoes that just don’t suit you. As an example, I did a lot of walking in wellies because I’d walk along country roads to get to an area to dog-walk which was often muddy. Just that daily walk on the roads with thin-soled wellies was enough to cause foot pain and backache over time.
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It’s the very edge of the heel where it touches the floor, hurts to stand at the moment but I do live in my Vans slip on shoes and converse which are pretty comfortable, I’m going to request a phone call from the GP and just ask about it and my body aches ☹️ I hope it goes away thanks!
 
That sounds like a physical problem to me rather than anything nerve-related. Perhaps one of the tendons in your foot has become irritated? If the GP can’t help, maybe a podiatrist could. If there’s inflammation or a strain, different shoes won’t be an immediate cure, but maybe they’d help a little. A good thick sole and a properly shaped insert is a sensible idea eg quality trainers.

I hope you get it sorted soon. The body aches are probably related to your heel. Again, on holiday I wore some tennis shoes. Looked lovely and Summery but every evening I had the most awful backache. I bought some padded trainers locally and that solved the problem.
 
Hello and welcome to the forum 🙂
Have you tried some insole supports to see if that helps at all? As others have said not everything and or anything is diabetes related.
A good thing to remember is that the condition "it's your diabetes" is not a diagnoses and is not listed in the medical dictionary 🙂
 
Hope you manage to get some pain relief for your heels @Newbetic

Depending on which cons/vans you are wearing it may be that they have fairly lightweight soles without very much support and/or cushioning, so increasing your walking may have just strained your feet a bit and they are complaining. Maybe something with a bit more padding/support in the sole would be worth trying?

I had heel pain when wearing a pair of Docs some years ago that had a firm heel with not quite enough ‘give’ in it. It was just the repeated impact that upset my feet, and a gel insole helped massively.

And welcome to the forum!
 
everydayupsanddowns said:
Hope you manage to get some pain relief for your heels @Newbetic

Depending on which cons/vans you are wearing it may be that they have fairly lightweight soles without very much support and/or cushioning, so increasing your walking may have just strained your feet a bit and they are complaining. Maybe something with a bit more padding/support in the sole would be worth trying?

I had heel pain when wearing a pair of Docs some years ago that had a firm heel with not quite enough ‘give’ in it. It was just the repeated impact that upset my feet, and a gel insole helped massively.

And welcome to the forum!
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I'm a great fan of Skechers, air cooled very comfortable but supportive at the same time.
 
Eldest daughter (50! and a chef so on her feet) swears by Skechers but I'm a bit doubtful as you can't try em on in a shop to try different sizes and I certainly have peculiar feet, what with broad 'balls', very slim heels, a bunion, some hammer toes and the other big toe nail is rock hard and pokes up - just had to give a pair I only wore once away (to a good home, granddaughter's mother in law, or would be if GD and her man were married LOL) as they were not deep enough to accommodate that ruddy toenail.
 
Thanks all for the advice! I got some new shoes and have been taking a less hilly route to another bus stop 🙂 we’re on Wednesday and the pain isn’t as sharp or annoying I think it may just have been the shoes and the way I was walking it’s just so easy to blame my BG for everything I need to stop that ‍♀️
 
Newbetic said:
Thanks all for the advice! I got some new shoes and have been taking a less hilly route to another bus stop 🙂 we’re on Wednesday and the pain isn’t as sharp or annoying I think it may just have been the shoes and the way I was walking it’s just so easy to blame my BG for everything I need to stop that ‍♀️
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Glad things are improving for you 🙂
Like others have said Sketchers are fabulous on the feet so worth a try in the future. They can be found in the factory shop sometimes, so a tad cheaper than normal retail.
 
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