Diabetes Foot Exam

Very good video. One more thing that's extremely important is that diabetics should NOT do is cut their own toe nails and NOT get pedicures at a salon! Even the slightest nick with a clipper or, God forbid, a manicurist scraping dead skin off your feet with that razor could result in cellulitis, which is dangerous in a healthy person, but in a diabetic can take months to heal even with the strongest antibiotics. Knowing that women, myself included, want their nails polished, that's fine. But let a foot specialist cut your nails, then put on your own polish at home. Better safe than sorry.

It's good to see that you are on top of your health, and diabetes.

This is a great video for everyone to see. I did not know that the doctor should be checking my feet with the instrument that checks if your feet are going numb or not. I kept telling my doctor that I was feeling tingling and small stabbing pains in my feet every so often. He replied that it can be fixed when and if it gets worse. 7 or so years of this, I had a four surgeries and at the end my feet were 10 times worse. I stopped smoking and within a week I was climbing the walls because nothing I did would stop the pain in my feet. I went to my doctor again he checked my feet for the first time gave me a 1mg of gabapenten and set a appointment for a neurologist. Two weeks later and almost insane from the pain the neurologist puts me on 2800mg of gabapenten.
YES I got rid of the so called doctor that never tested my feet until the end. It was one of the first of rude awakenings that there are some good and some bad in every aspect of people you know and meet.
Make sure your feet are tested and looked at. I can no longer work and the neuropathy is now in my hands. And yes my A1C in normal.

Your comment and recommendation of this video are both greatly appreciated.
~Mays~

It was very good information for the feet. I already had neuropathy from polio when I became a diabetic. So I have to have my feet checked by my husband every couple of days. I recommend that every one watch this video.
JoAnna

Please view, very informative !

A very helpful video, I never thought about the feet in that way. I check my daily and I pay close attention to them. Thank you for the good information every diabetic should know!!

No nonsense on this video. I have had an amputation. It's nothing to dismiss as something that's not a big deal, because it is.

This was good reinforcement. I definitely intend to get my feet checked every year. In fact I did so this afternoon (Tuesday)

I check my feet morning and night. I go to a podiatrist once a year.

yes, it is good information,but he could have talk a little more like he was interested in what he said.

very good information and yes i do check my feet every nite before i go to bed.
midget

interesting information. This is always a priority with me trying to save my feet.

Does a primary doc do this, or do you have to go to a podiatrist?

I got alot of info from this video. My nueropathy needs to be checked out better.

WOW, I had no clue that smoking could cause that much damage to a diabetic!

I KNEW OF MY DIABETES FOR 3 YRS AND NEVER HAD MY FEET EXAMINED. I WILL ASK FOR IT NOW. THANK YOU

This is important information—but could this guy be any less energetic? Man, I thought I was going to fall asleep :-)