Around a year
ago I first learned that I might be a Diabetic but wasn’t giving actual proof
at that time. I decided to see a different Doctor due to a co-worker stating
that he was good. After my first visit he had looked the results from previous
doctor he told me that I was Type II. From what he saw from test I didn’t
need medication since my sugar level was under a rating of 7. He stated to me
that I needed to lose some weight for me to stay off medications. Since that
time my weight has been up and down. Towards the end of March, I was
having pain and started taking over the counter pills to relieve the pain.
Second week of pain went to emergencies at the VA and the best they came up was
that I may have hurt myself lifting weights. The VA put me on
inflammatory meds which did not help me. Now I fall into my third week of
pain and went to see my Doctor and by the symptoms he thought I had golfers’ elbow and he gave me pills and they
didn’t work. Few days later I ended up at local hospital emergency and they
couldn’t understand what I had. They felt that yes it could be golfers’ elbow to and put me on meds which did
help with the pain. Made it to my fourth week of pain went back to my
Doctor and finally he sent me to see an orthopedic. The orthopedic
arraigned for me to have an MRI which showed me having a torn muscle and
possible blood from the swelling in my arm. He then determined that
surgery was needed and opened my arm up and found dead muscle tissue.
This muscle tissue turned out to be diabetic muscle infarction. For any
person out there having Diabetes please take it seriously. The pain that
you get from this dead tissue is more than anyone could bare. Please read
about this disease at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1888747/.
