Really random question but it just confuses me how it ends up causing someone to lose a body part
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T1 (juvenile onset) diabetic for 37 years.
I’ll explain it simple since I have lost half a foot and 2 toes.
If your blood sugar is too high too often and you have poor blood sugar control for too long you end up getting peripheral neuropathy. You lose feeling in your feet and legs. Extremely poor circulation.
Without feet checks you might not see or feel when you step on a piece of a broken plate like I did, and since there is poor circulation you don’t heal as well. Or if you get injured you might not feel it. I dropped a bowling ball on my foot once and didn’t feel it.
Because you lack circulation you don’t heal fast at all. The foot infection could lead to bone infection.
If you get an infection in the bone (osteomyelitis) and/or gangrene they have to amputate the region to avoid infection or gangrene to spread throughout the foot or leg.
There have been lots of jokes about “beetus” online and Wilford Brimley jokes but for long term T1 diabetics and older T2 diabetics it can be devastating and deadly. It’s why the mortality rate for T1 diabetics is so high. So I don’t think the jokes are funny.
I damaged my body as well with cigarettes for 30 years which causes other complications including neuropathy. Quit 3 years ago. The combo of smoking and poor control can lead to heart disease, asthma, and the aforementioned.
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