I am diabetic, and I have arlready been told treatment involves cutting, grinding, rebreaking, setting, pinning and 10-15 weeks cast time before therapy to get back on by feet. I already have arthrthritis and walking hasn't been easy for the last couple of years. Over the last year I have lost 100 lbs and have been working on my health. Need input on alternatives to the medical communities answer to the problem. I don't want to start losing my limbs. And that seems to be the outcome when doctors start cutting on diabetics limbs. Any Suggestion?
Answer:
Sure. Ignore good medical advice and see your ankle never heal at all. Watch as the bone necroses, followed by soft tissue deterioration, followed by the development of gangrene, and then suffer through amputation of your leg just below the knee.Look, you cannot change history. You may or may not have made a mistake not going to a physician twenty years ago. That's really not the issue here. Diabetics just heal much slower than other folks. It's rotten, but you can't change that. And yes, I can tell you how rotten - I'm diabetic too.
There is NO alternative therapy that's going to give you any more chance to save that leg - if there was, it'd be the first thing the doctor would have recommended. We ALWAYS look for less dramatic interventions first, and if there were a less dramatic, less invasive means that showed as much promise as surgery, we'd recommend that first.
So your choice is simple: decline proper treatment and greatly increase your risk of having to have the leg removed or submit to the recommended treatment and cut your risk of losing the leg significantly.
go to the doctor, you shouldn't handle things like this on your own!
good work on losing the weight and working on your health. i am also a diabetic have severe arthitis and just had both knees totally replace within a 3 month time period. it is a choice only you can make. i made the choice for surgery because of the pain, and the lack of ability to walk. i have done everything the doctors have told me to do and have not had any problems. my sister has your problem and her choice is not to walk rather than have surgery. she lives with severe pain every day and has no real life.good luck on your choice.
Sorry for your troubles. Get second opinions from qualified medical doctors. If "alternative" medicine could cure this, it would be a mainstream and accepted practice. Do not be victimized by scam artists or snake oil peddlers.
Go to a doctor that simple thanks for the 2 points
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