diabetes complications

So sorry to hear that- how old is he and how long has he been diabetic- since childhood?

This is an excellent website for information, but also with a specialised Forum to ask more specific questions. Hope it helps

www.diabetes.org.uk/

Thanks granjura he is 28 been diagnosed since he was 13ish I think. DD has joined that forum. Has got support from other carers but has found nobody with this compilation.

Complication

ninathenana Hi. I haven't been on Gransnet for such a long time and just happened to be browsing when I seen your post.

This sounds very similar to my DHs condition. He was diagnosed with gastroperisis It's a well known complication with diabetes. He had his first episode in 2007. He was really poorly for over a year and was off work. He ended up having botoxc injected into his stomach (a first line treatment) which seemed to work.

The way the doctor explained it to us is that in a "normal" stomach the nerves move the food through in a matter of hours. In this scenario the nerves are damaged so the food lies there and deferments which causes it to come back up again.....constantly.

Fast forward to 2011 and he had a relapse. Lost 3 stone in 8 weeks and was off work for 18 months. This time we had found a support group through which we found out about the gastric pacemaker. It's a device surgically placed in the stomach which stimulates the nerves to move the food through the gut. The operation isn't generally available on the bus and at the m o ment there are only a handful of surgeons who do the operation. Anyway I set to work developing a case for funding and after a bit of of a struggle we eventually got there. He got the operation in December 2013 and he hasn't looked back.

It's a horrible illness. If you need/want any other information. Just let me know.

Neeny thank you. That's encouraging. I have forwarded your post to DD.

The Botox hasn't been mentioned yet. He has an appointment the end of July to see the specialist but gastroperisis is the GP's diagnosis. The only thing he's been told so far is he may end up with a tube straight into his intestines.

That was the worst case scenario we were presented with and I have to say I had prepared myself for that. I was at the point that anything would be better than what he was going through. Thank goodness the pacemaker worked.

I hope you SIL gets the treatment he needs and his condition improves. The strange thing about this condition is that it can right itself all on its own, but only temporarily and for varying lengths of time. My DH wasn't offered the biotic until he had been ill for 12 months during the first episode, so we don't really know whether the improvement came about from the treatment or not. He got another shot of biotic during the second episode and it made little difference.

Have you heard about stem cells therapy for diabetes ( uctclinic.com/diabetes-stem-cell-treatment )? My friend used the method to treat his diabetes, and it was totally successful. But you have to go to a doctor first in order to discover something more about it