Healing

[Anonymous]

Has anyone else noticed how slow us diabetics seem to heal? I have a scar on my left knee from when I was dignosed with diabetes, I collapsed on an oil radiator and burned all the way down to the bone and it still healing now ten years later. Does anyone else have a slow healing time?

[Cecile]

Never had any festering wounds, even prior to diagnosis when I must’ve been camping out in the plus 10s for more than a year. If you’ve managed to maintain HbA1cs of 5-7 since diagnosis, diabetes can’t be blamed…lately I’ve had a few nips on my hand that have gone a bit manky, but a waning thyroid gland (&rate at which new keratin is formed) can be held responsible.

(If knee remains scared, comfort it by playing the banjo )

[Anonymous]

my consultant did always say with this illness that you can have slow healing wounds and things…!!!!!!!!!!!

i have had a few things i have suffered with and they have gone mankey and not healed properly.

[Tim]

I had a few cuts and bruises before diagnosis that seemed to take an age to sort themselves out; but post diagnosis pretty much everything has been as normal. But, as always, your diabetes may ;

[Anonymous]

i only started to notice after i got the illness , like when i broke my arm that took a while to heal..

[Anonymous]

Bruises that last forever, cuts that take a decade to heal, a black eye that could have entered the Guiness Book of Records for longevity, and a dog bite that outlasted the average celebrity marriage…
Just another of the perks of diabetes.

On the downside, why are the drinks machines in all A&E departments filled with such a naff selection – does anyone ever actually choose the chicken soup, cos that’s what I got when I pressed for black tea !

[Tim]

@ladyupnorth – I wonder what you’d have got if you’d pressed the button for chicken soup? The mind boggles.

[Hairy Gnome]

There’s upsides and downsides though, I don’t know if it’s just some form of ‘T2ishness’, but if I get a scratch on my leg or ankle it heals fairly quickly though the scab will take a long time to drop off. On the other hand, although my feet have little or no feeling in them, I do at least have a good blood supply, so I suppose that helps. I do get puerpera on my arms, but I put some of that down to sun damage from my truck driving days; now exacerbated of course by the blood thinning drugs after my heart attack. Generally though, I still heal pretty well.

@Ladyupnorth, @Tim – vodka and tonic?

[Anonymous]

Vodka and tonic ?
Well, that makes the next A&E visit sound more fun !

PS How do you do that blue “message to” thing in a post ?

[Tim]

@ladyupnorth – you get the messagey thing by typing an @ before the person’s user name. The user name is different from the name that’s actually displayed (it’s a feature, not a bug; honest!) and you can get said user name by hovering your mouse over their name at the start of each post.

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