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Sweet diabetes messed up my eyes and my dick. Now the medicine for one makes the laser and injections for the other pointless.
Just leave me hard and blind in a ditch somewhere.
It's not to late to start taking control of your diabetes, getting blood sugar and insulin under control will improve erectile function!
It's under control but apparently getting it under control too quickly can cause rapid eye degeneration (my eyes were fine when I got diagnosed, and I responded well to treatment).
I. The UK diabetes and other lifelong conditions make you eligible for free meds, which helps a lot.
I'm glad to hear its under control. Are you monitoring your fasting insulin levels? Getting your insulin levels down is probably the single best thing you can do for cardiovascular health.
Hba1c blood test every once in a while, blood sugar tests if I feel weird or curious. My blood was syrup when I first went in, untreated for years except accidentally trying low carb diets
Oh, thats quite a accident!
May I suggest getting fasting insulin checked as well? from my reading of the literature, it's the single biggest lever in getting t2d and cardiovascular issues under control or even reversed. the best way to achieve low insulin levels is the low carb diets you accidentally tried before.
That's NHS standard every now and then along with the hba1c as far as I can tell.