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Complications

What research has been done on long term effects of diabetes? I’ve had diabetes for 30 years this year.

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My 15 year old son (diabetic since 4 years old) has extreme thigh pain. He has had 2 MRI’S, X-ray’s, and a bone scan. Could this be neuropathy?

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I am 14 years old, and I have had type 1 diabetes for about eight years. I am about 5 feet tall. What can I do to get taller and gain weight? Can my diabetes be keeping me from growing? If diabetes can keep you from growing, what can I do to stop my diabetes and start to grow?

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What tests are done to diagnose diabetic peripheral neuropathy? What type of tests are given to evaluate the extent of diabetic neuropathy? Do I have to have testing done on a scheduled basis?

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I am 32 years old and have had type 1 diabetes for 17 years, and I am having problems with my gallbladder and intestines. I’ve visited doctors, done investigations of intestine and gall-bladder, but they found nothing that could cause such problems. Can it be because of autonomic neuropathy? What else can I do for my health?

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My 48 year old friend has diabetes and, recently, his eyesight has been failing, and now he has no vision in one eye and the other eye is about 10/20. Is there is such thing as an eye transplant? How do you sign up? How long are the waiting lists?

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For the past six months, my 11 year old son, who has had type 1 diabetes for three years and currently uses an insulin pump, has been experiencing electrical shock sensations in his shoulders, arms and fingers. What could this be? Is related to his diabetes? Do we need to have this evaluated?

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I have had type 2 diabetes, and my microalbumin was elevated recently. What could cause such a jump? Could eating extra protein be the cause?

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I have diabetes, and I had a blood creatinine of 0.9 mg/dl and urine creatinine of 16.9 mg/dl along with a urine microalbumin of 0.7 mg/dl. I have searched all over the Internet for what low urine creatinine means, and I can’t find anything that explains what the danger is. Can you help?

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I am a 48 year old woman who has have had type 1 diabetes for 44 years, and while I know that male impotence may be a problem, I have never seen anything mentioned about female sexual dysfunction or had it mentioned by any medical person. Do you have any information on how female sexuality may be adversely affected by type 1 diabetes?

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