Bad diabetic. Large Intestines removed? Whats next??

Question

My cousin/Brother is in ICU right now. He is 30 and diabetic. They removed his large intestines because they died from infection. He already had 2 toes taken because of his diabetes.Can anyone tell me about there experiences with this situation? I need some sort of hope.

Answer 1

That is a grave development, but you must know that already.  The hope that you should take away from this is that there is a lesson to be learned which will make his future better than his present.  He can live without a couple of toes, and even most of his intestine.  Unfortunately, sooner or later there will be a similar complication in some other organ that isn't quite as dispensable.  The life he is leading right now makes the next complication just a matter of time.

But diabetes is a manageable disease.  If your cousin gets his diabetes under control, he can expect to lead a long life with no additional amputations.  If not, he is doomed to a premature death and greatly reduced quality of life.  This latest surgery needs to be a wake up call to get his blood sugar readings under control.

Good luck and best wishes.

Answer 2

Proper care and good glucose control make these things a thing of the past!!  Your relative is not taking medications, food plan and exercise seriously.

So sorry I cannot give you any hope that your relative will live more than another 5 years while I will live for another 40 hopefully - to be 100, because I watch closely what I eat, take my medications on a timely basis and do my exercises faithfully and do not ever let my glucose get much above 125 even for post prandial spiking at the half hour mark.

Answer 3

This is a very good example of what happens when diabetes is ignored or not treated properly.

The loss of his toes had to do with neuropathy and/or poor circulation, the loss of his large intestine isn't very common but it shows that peripheral neuropathy caused very slow healing and may have been the cause of his infection.

There are so many type 2 diabetics that are in denial over this disease after diagnosis simply because they don't feel any symptoms until complications begin to set in......And that included me at one time until I started losing some sensation in my feet and developed retinopathy, that was my wake up call.

I now have my blood sugars under control but still have a loss of sensation in my feet and every couple of years I still need Laser surgery for my (R) eye.

I'm sorry for your cousin/Brother but the lesson to be learned is that diabetes can't be ignored.....ever.

Answer 4

he has gangrene and i am afraid that  is as bad as it gets