Flower
Well-Known Member
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
I had a foot ulcer on my heel in the summer caused by my plaster cast rubbing. It healed and I was surprised at the time that it had mended so fast going by my previous slow history to get anything to mend.
A couple of weeks later it came back bigger and more worrying. Ulcers are such very painful things on the feet, even with neuropathy I get an ongoing stinging stabbing pain in my heel. I suppose I'm grateful I can feel it and can tell something has gone wrong but argh I wish it would mend. After 4 months of weekly podiatry visits it's still there, a lot smaller but clinging on.
The ulcer is unfortunately where I needed a skin graft after all the bones in my ankle and foot broke and shifted with Charcot foot, the skin is so fragile and vulnerable and really not keen to heal over.
I am so glad I've managed over the years with help from this forum and tech developments to wrestle my diabetes in to good shape. A couple of times I've had the 'control' 🙄 your diabetes better talk but after looking at my blood tests that's changed to "but your 'control' is really tight" That notion of controlling my diabetes is one thing I struggle not to lose my cool over!
So on I hobble with a new plaster cast hoping that somehow my foot manages to heal and I can stop being a fixture and fitting in the high risk podiatry clinic. Just a moan about the exasperation of diabetes when I'm trying to do all the right things yet still it keeps causing pain and fear.
A couple of weeks later it came back bigger and more worrying. Ulcers are such very painful things on the feet, even with neuropathy I get an ongoing stinging stabbing pain in my heel. I suppose I'm grateful I can feel it and can tell something has gone wrong but argh I wish it would mend. After 4 months of weekly podiatry visits it's still there, a lot smaller but clinging on.
The ulcer is unfortunately where I needed a skin graft after all the bones in my ankle and foot broke and shifted with Charcot foot, the skin is so fragile and vulnerable and really not keen to heal over.
I am so glad I've managed over the years with help from this forum and tech developments to wrestle my diabetes in to good shape. A couple of times I've had the 'control' 🙄 your diabetes better talk but after looking at my blood tests that's changed to "but your 'control' is really tight" That notion of controlling my diabetes is one thing I struggle not to lose my cool over!
So on I hobble with a new plaster cast hoping that somehow my foot manages to heal and I can stop being a fixture and fitting in the high risk podiatry clinic. Just a moan about the exasperation of diabetes when I'm trying to do all the right things yet still it keeps causing pain and fear.
