highlander317
New Member
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
Hi All
A little background into my situation first.
Type 1 diagnosed in July 2022 at the age of 47 after a weekend in the hospital with DKA, 3 stone weightloss in 6 weeks, all the signs of diabetes now that I know, my bad.
The diabetes is well managed, no issues from the diabetes team at the docs, still no experience of lows or highs, ( didn't feel ill when admitted to hospital either, just tired ).
Just before Christmas 2024, I had a regular pulled muscle feeling usually in the left calf, but over time has happened in both calves. Went to the doctors in Jan 2025 after researching what it could be and ruling out simple things like footware and it just being a pulled muscle, but the problem just kept coming back. I said to the doctors I thought it was Peripheral Arterial Disease, and after some feeling of my calves agreed to refer me to hospital. Since then, the left calf has the pulled muscle feeling all the time when I'm on my feet, the advice is to walk til it hurts, walk a bit more then rest, but it's there all the time, less often in the right calf, with the sensation of throbbing or a spasm sometimes whilst resting. I regularly walk at least 1 mile a day more at he weekends, some days I really struggle with half a mile, but the pain does not really go away, even with rest, it's back straight away after a few steps/ metres.
So the appointment came 3 weeks ago, to my amazement the expected test for PAD, what I had researched was an ABPI test, that didn't happen. The consultant merely felt with her hands for a pulse in both feet, then added some gel and added a doplar to prove I had a pulse there and that there was nothing her department could do, bye. No blood pressure anywhere on the body, just the magical fingers of the consultant, when I questioned her, she said as you have a pulse in your foot, it's not PAD. I was left waiting for over 35 minutes
In the 3 weeks since the appoinment, i've been eager to see what she reports to the doctor, sadly the outpatients needed a kick up the backside and only sent the results yesterday after me complaining about the wait, (how strange), so I can get the problem sorted.
I'm hoping someone here can report on their experience of having a test for PAD, what was done during their appointment, did that involve an ABPI test, or was my consultant negligent or just had magical fingers.
Many thanks
Lee
A little background into my situation first.
Type 1 diagnosed in July 2022 at the age of 47 after a weekend in the hospital with DKA, 3 stone weightloss in 6 weeks, all the signs of diabetes now that I know, my bad.
The diabetes is well managed, no issues from the diabetes team at the docs, still no experience of lows or highs, ( didn't feel ill when admitted to hospital either, just tired ).
Just before Christmas 2024, I had a regular pulled muscle feeling usually in the left calf, but over time has happened in both calves. Went to the doctors in Jan 2025 after researching what it could be and ruling out simple things like footware and it just being a pulled muscle, but the problem just kept coming back. I said to the doctors I thought it was Peripheral Arterial Disease, and after some feeling of my calves agreed to refer me to hospital. Since then, the left calf has the pulled muscle feeling all the time when I'm on my feet, the advice is to walk til it hurts, walk a bit more then rest, but it's there all the time, less often in the right calf, with the sensation of throbbing or a spasm sometimes whilst resting. I regularly walk at least 1 mile a day more at he weekends, some days I really struggle with half a mile, but the pain does not really go away, even with rest, it's back straight away after a few steps/ metres.
So the appointment came 3 weeks ago, to my amazement the expected test for PAD, what I had researched was an ABPI test, that didn't happen. The consultant merely felt with her hands for a pulse in both feet, then added some gel and added a doplar to prove I had a pulse there and that there was nothing her department could do, bye. No blood pressure anywhere on the body, just the magical fingers of the consultant, when I questioned her, she said as you have a pulse in your foot, it's not PAD. I was left waiting for over 35 minutes
In the 3 weeks since the appoinment, i've been eager to see what she reports to the doctor, sadly the outpatients needed a kick up the backside and only sent the results yesterday after me complaining about the wait, (how strange), so I can get the problem sorted.
I'm hoping someone here can report on their experience of having a test for PAD, what was done during their appointment, did that involve an ABPI test, or was my consultant negligent or just had magical fingers.
Many thanks
Lee
Update- managed to get an appointment this afternoon, docs seemed puzzled that a finger pulse check was all that was done and agreed to get diabetes team at docs to do an ABPI test next Wednesday.
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