Joined: 03 Feb 2006 Posts: 1 Location: Tianjin China
Pad+dpn Posted: 02-03-06 04:04am
Dear doctors and diabetes friends:
firstly,let me tell about my history:
i am a 71 years old man in tianjin china
,a 27 years diabetes patient.Since 1992, I
suffered from diabetes complications,
diabetes peripheral arterial
disease(pad)-arteries became clogged with
fatty deposits,and peripheral
neuropathy(pdn)-a nerve damage caused by
chronic high blood surgars.Since then,i've
been sent to tianjin diabetes hospital for
three times.The three times reports of
doppler instrument and pulse volume
waveform analysis showed that my block
rates of leg arteries were 20%,30% and
40%.The symptoms of fatigue, heaviness and
numbness from my feet ,ankles and legs
gradually became more and more severe,
arteries radiography showed both my front
tibial arteries gradually became
blocked.Since I still had the vein
problems, the rest times of the day,i had
to leave both my legs high up,preventing
it from heaver and swellen.That is me.
I chose the way to struggle by doing the
stem cell transplantion in blood reserch
institute of tianjin china in may of
2004..Although it was newly invented
treatment,may not have been truely perfect
therapy by now.It was really worth for me
to run the risk of having a try.After I
had fulfilled the operation for half an
year,my ankle brachial index (abi) had
amazinly increased,from 0.88 to 1.18.My
occasionally appeared intermittent
claudication seemed disappeared.The fourth
toe of left foot from purple color turned
normal.The color and temperatures of both
my foot and legs also turned to normal.
Then,i insist on walking each day hoping
leading a new life,but gradually it became
really hard for the numb and weaking
ankles leading me to find out the true
reason of it's symptoms. After searching
the differences between true claudication
and pseudoclaudication.Then I knew from
the net that: the true intermittent
claudication does not occur without a
decrease in the ankle systolic blood
pressure (of abi) and a decrease in the
pulse volume amplitude -this was not my
case.But the pseudoclaudication related to
lumbar spinal canal stenosis can be the
seeming symptoms but it can get relief by
sitting or leaning forward ,then I knew it
was me.After consulting my doctor and
taking mri, knowing that I really had had
the disease of lumbar spinal canal
stenosis,but my case was not so serious,
no surgery needed .I can only get relief
by massage , acupuncture or waist
training.After this kind of therapy and
waist training,i felt much better than
before.I found out I can walk much longer
time.Recently I even increased the
intensity of walking to one
hour,continually covering distances of 5km
each days,for more than three month ,but
after that ,i decrease it to 30 minutes in
this year.
It was not a easy job for me to do
that.Every times I started to walk I felt
my legs and feet very numb and weak,but
after walking I felt a little bit of
relief,at least my walking gesture turned
to normal a bit. Through a whole year's
hard working ,i obviously improved my
ability to do the routine of daily
life,still,by no means it can cure my
diseases,or decrease the speed of
worsening.
But my skin of my foot become so
rough,very easy to be cracked,and my pdn
case becoming more and more of
severity,the numb goes on to my ankles and
lower legs.It seems each season my
symptoms went to a new stage.I wonder how
long I still can walk.I really have no
confidence.But some of my doctors,who did
my transplatations, said I don't have the
risk of ulcers and amputations,but a
few,who treated me in diabetes hospital,
said I still have.
What do you think of my case ?How can I do
my best to reduce the risks of it?
I would really appreciate it if anyone
here could be patient enough to read my
history and the problem. I did my best to
put anything in here that I think could be
related.
By now, my blood glucose levels,
cholesterol levels,are still in normal
range,hemoglobin aic reading 0.64%.
I'm looking forward to meeting everyone
here and to being of any help that I can
to you too.
