Nostrils!

[Northerner]

Here's a strange one, and I only ask because it is something I never experienced in my pre-diabetes days. Does anyone get soreness in the nostrils?

Since diagnosis I have had periodic soreness either at the tip of my nose or on the 'lip' side - a bit like the soreness you get with cracked skin. I guess it could be related to the sore and cracked skin I have been getting at the tips of my toes - again, something I never got in the past.

 

[diagonall]

Have you got a yeast infection?

 

[janine19]

I have dry skin on and around my nose but not in nostrils. Ive been putting it down to diabetes as didnt have it before. However, saw my nurse yesterday and was sent for blood test to check thyroid as im also losin some hair!

 

[Northerner]

Have you got a yeast infection?

How would I know? Apart from these minor irritations I feel I'm in very good health, with good BG control.

 

[katie]

Yep Ive definately had this problem!

My hands annoy me the most though

 

[Copepod]

Petroleum jelly (eg Vaseline) is the best thing I've found for dry or sore skin around nose and lips (and other places well known to runners...)

 

[kezza]

Yes. GP prescribed hydrocortisone cream. Works wonders.

 

[kojack]

I have dry skin on and around my nose but not in nostrils. Ive been putting it down to diabetes as didnt have it before. However, saw my nurse yesterday and was sent for blood test to check thyroid as im also losin some hair!

I was diagnosed with underactive thyroid long before diagnosis of diabetes.
Nose itches and nostrils dry in cold windy weather and as was mentioned earlier in the thread, petroleum jelly (vaseline) helps to protect.

When I was a fair time in USA we had to use it most of the winter - windy city and Milwaukee

 

[Northerner]

Hey, thanks guys, maybe not so strange after all!