Thank you Heidi!

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Thank you!

I had already presumed on your good nature and posted a quick

question to you before you were so kind as to ask me directly if you

could help!

I am feeling better to-day thank you but I have yet another cold. I

know that increased infections can be a sign of the diabetes.

I can hardly find the words to describe the sort of " ill " feeling I

had yesterday, Heidi. Perhaps rather like real flu but also that

incipient panc feeling in the middle! The actual pain wasn't too

bad but I had that awful mix of nausea, dizziness, weakness etc.

which is as bad as the pain itself. I was also absolutely

exhausted....fell asleep at the computer! However, it is only fair

to say that I tend to get very little sleep....because I'm a fool,

not because I can't sleep....because I cannot make myself go to bed

early and I'm up at 6.30 am to go to school. If I don't go to sleep

much before 1.30 - 2.00 am, I suppose I deserve everything I get!

I'm having a lot of joint pains (sadly, not in the left elbow so I

don't qualify for the club!!!) Perhaps having pain in every joint

EXCEPT the left elbow could allow me to join by the back door as it

were???!!!! This frightens me Heidi. I may not have told you before

but my mother suffered from similar pain, starting in her hands, as

mine did. It gradually got so bad that she ended up having to be

wheelchair-bound for many years before she died. Initially it was

diagnosed as rheumatoid arthritis but this diagnosis was later

abandoned and the docs were left wondering. I have always believed

it to be linked in some way to her pancreatitis but I could be

wrong. My panc specialist didn't recognise any known syndrome when I

mentioned it to him.

I will tell my GP when I arrange this week's glucose tolerance test

but I'm afraid experience has shown me that it's usually only when

you reach a specialist that there is much hope of anything unusual

being recognised or followed up! Sorry to sound cynical. I've also

got the swelling in my left foot (is there a club for that??!!)

which I've mentioned in my other post.

THANKS a million Heidi. I really appreciate your concern and the

chance to talk to you. I don't expect you to diagnose at that

distance (!!) but it's wonderful to be able to talk to you.

Yes....the music was fantastic!

Take care,

With very good wishes,

Fliss