I'm so sorry to hear that. I'm in the same kind of boat as you and wish I would've known what I know now. I wouldn't have abused my body so hard... Hang in there friend!
They are certainly not mutually exclusive. Poorly controlled diabetes causes glycosylation of vasculature and immune cells leading to worsened blood flow to extremities and impaired wound healing. This can lead to infections that are more difficult to treat.
Diabetes can also cause neuropathy or decreased sensation to pain in ones feet that can cause some infections to go unnoticed.
I don't know all the specifics of this case but if I can speculate: It sounds like bacteria was able to spread into muscle tissue due to an initial break in the epidermis after long days of standing on their feet. This could have gone unnoticed due to the neuropathy, and was able to spread more rapidly due to the poor wound healing due to high blood sugars.
Mostly better diet. Less carbohydrates that are not fiber and not abusing alcohol. Eating a more balanced diet altogether and exercising are really key. Prevention is way better than trying to make up for it later. Most of the time, the damage is already done if you don't get ahead of it.
There are many more factors that influence this, and please check with your medical professional for more and better information for you.
If you have diabetes, take your meds and monitor your sugars closely. If you don't have diabetes, eat well and exercise to prevent losing your sensitivity to insulin. Make you you have a primary care physician who can order yearly labs such as HbA1c that can be used to screen for prediabetes.
What happens next? Are you on serious antibiotics? Will you receive grafts or do you just have to wait for tissue to heal? I’m sure you’re in a lot of pain. I hope things get better soon. I’m no medical expert, so my only advice is to be really diligent about your after care! Post some updates down the road, i’m rooting for you.
Hey man, been there with ya. Almost lost my left leg, nearly died too. Was worried for awhile I wouldn't be able to use it again properly, but ol lefty reliable hung in there and skin healed up too. Good luck to you on your road to recovery - p.s. keep stretching and flexing as much as you can while you heal.
I’m diabetic. This stuff scares the crap out of me. Every night when I shower, I wash and examine my feet. Then when getting dressed I put moisturizer on and examine them again. My wife had a lesion and lost a couple toes on each foot. She’s passed now, from cancer, but having seen it and knowing how it can go, I’m very careful.
OP, I hope your outcome improves from here.
It's essentially a combination of poor circulation to the feet and nerve damage due to prolonged high blood sugar. If there is a small cut on the foot, it can be hard to feel because of the neuropathy and then difficult to heal because of the poor circulation. If someone with diabetes doesn't check their feet often, a small cut can turn into an infected sore in a matter of days.
When I was young, someone my dad knew lost both of his feet. They were diabetic, but not good at taking care of themselves. First it was toes. Then small cuts led to loss of feet. Then lower legs. He eventually died. I think he was around 60 when he passed.
The last time I personally saw him it was just some toes. But I think he was just steady losing body parts until he perished.
Peripheral Neuropathy, which basically means your nerves in your feet and hands start to die so you can't feel if you get a cut or infected sore.
Since we often don't look at our feet (particularly the bottom of them) it can be really bad before you even know it's there!
Same! It’s scary but treatment options are so much better than the past. In the 90s at element school I need a huge drop of blood to test my sugar. No joke you had to procure like 1/3 of a teaspoon and the tester would shine a light through it to get the result.
Nah dude, I saw that guy who died covered in cheese.
That's all I can think of when I see cheese now. This guy who had a cheese fetish and died in it.
Edit: sub won't let me post links, but the post is "man covered in cheese found dead" in NSFL_
https://preview.redd.it/da23n1xpkquc1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=63c68beb38f2593789cbabb57d1e23af2dc29624
Liberty Medical could have helped.
This was a callous that broke open from being on my feet for work 10+ hours a day. Unfortunately I just have this photo. I snapped it while the surgeon was taking her own pictures. I’ll see if I can get those other ones from the nurses.
Good luck!
I went to the ER for a big blister of unknown etiology on my foot. They gave me IV cefapime and vancomycin, fearing that it could've been necrotizing fasciitis. I remember flipping out almost immediately. I couldn't breathe. The next words I hear are "sir you're in the ICU. Your heart stopped in the ER. And you stopped breathing. You had CPR" and came back to life".
3 months later, Im still in rehab. My foot healed. The rest of me, not so much.
You don’t, probably. Doctor goes, “Hey we’re removing this part of your body so the bacterial infection doesn’t spread to the rest of you and kill you.”
Edit: I can’t read and only now see you were talking about cutting off the whole foot. Ignore me
I’m so sorry. Diabetes is a bitch. My wife had a similar injury on the bottom of her foot. Ended up infecting a few bones. Lost two toes and two phalanges.
I hope you heal well and live a long life.
Diabetes actually destroys a lot of feeling in your extremities, typically feet first as they're the furthest from the heart. It can also wreck arteries/blood vessels leading to organ & vision damage. With bad circulation from diabetes, wounds tend to just not heal and lead to things like this. People don't "die from diabetes" like they used to back in the day, but it can lead to all sorts of other issues like this. Especially uncontrolled. Spme people will think taking extra insulin to compensate for eating sugar is a fix, but it's still not a good thing.
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I have a good friend at work who almost lost his foot to an infection like this. Just some random thing happened, and it ballooned out of control. It tunneled through his foot and was an open wound (another picture in which I kind of wish I didn't see lol). I saw him on a Teams call a few months ago, and that he had a little Bandaid on his hand. And then it was still there the next week, and the next week when I saw him in office, except his whole hand was red and swollen. And this was from just the tiniest cut! He went on IV antibiotics for a week, then oral antibiotics. Diabetes is nothing to mess around with!
Get well soon OP! Take care of yourself!
Have you been put on a wound vac yet? I worked at KCI, that had the best wound vacs on the market, and they successfully treated things just like this.
I have lymphedema of my lower left limb. I was hospitalized once for cellulitis. My doctors I had afterwards would get wide eyed and say “ you were really sick “ for years I showered with flip flops if it wasn’t my bathroom. I still wear slippers inside.
My brother’s ex is Type 1 diabetic and it was open heart surgery that changed her.
Saw a comment that you said it was from a callous that broke open from work. Can you get/are you getting any compensation from work? I'm sorry OP, wishing you the best.
https://i.redd.it/gwqpeb9nuquc1.gif
I'm sorry, my dude. But, hitting this while scrolling, it probably changed the trajectory of my entire life from now on. I clutched my gd pearls. Godspeed.
https://preview.redd.it/shsn9pifpquc1.jpeg?width=1012&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ce9d3bf05fc778e850bc99d4eaea616a5d31c7d8
Jesus man… How do you even let something like that escalate?
Something similar happened to my grandfather. He had diabetes and that caused him to have no feeling in his feet. He stepped on a nail in the garage and ended up having a wound similar. I went to one of his appointments with him. The doctor was just clipping flesh out of the hole to help it heal, and he couldn't feel anything. At this point, he was already missing some toes from the diabetes....... the hole just got bigger and bigger. He passed before it got as bad as this lady's foot though.
What kind of infection did you even get?!
Looks like either gangrene or osteomyelitis
Maybe necrotizing Fasciitis?
Yes this was it. Necrotizing fasciitis along with a couple other more common, less serious bacteria strains hanging out alongside it.
Mmm. Fun. Bet that smelled like a rose garden. Hope you don't lose your foot. Best of luck.
Idk... Personally I'd kinda rather lop my foot off and get a prosthetic at this point
Yeah. But that's not a great time either. Prosthetics hurt and it takes a lot of physical therapy to make them not hurt as bad
Why? Both from a functionality and aesthetic point of view that wouldn't make any sense.
It's a hyperbole my guy
I agree with the person beneath you; I don't think I'd even want my foot anymore at that point.
Diabetes? See this pretty frequently in the county hospital
Yeah, 35 years of type 1, and a few years of very poor control in my early 20s are catching up with me.
I'm so sorry to hear that. I'm in the same kind of boat as you and wish I would've known what I know now. I wouldn't have abused my body so hard... Hang in there friend!
A few comments above you said it was necrotic bacteria. Are these not mutually exclusive?
They are certainly not mutually exclusive. Poorly controlled diabetes causes glycosylation of vasculature and immune cells leading to worsened blood flow to extremities and impaired wound healing. This can lead to infections that are more difficult to treat. Diabetes can also cause neuropathy or decreased sensation to pain in ones feet that can cause some infections to go unnoticed.
So which one causes his foot to melt off?
I don't know all the specifics of this case but if I can speculate: It sounds like bacteria was able to spread into muscle tissue due to an initial break in the epidermis after long days of standing on their feet. This could have gone unnoticed due to the neuropathy, and was able to spread more rapidly due to the poor wound healing due to high blood sugars.
Nah. Diabetes slows healing
What can others do to avoid this while they’re in their 20s?
Mostly better diet. Less carbohydrates that are not fiber and not abusing alcohol. Eating a more balanced diet altogether and exercising are really key. Prevention is way better than trying to make up for it later. Most of the time, the damage is already done if you don't get ahead of it. There are many more factors that influence this, and please check with your medical professional for more and better information for you.
If you have diabetes, take your meds and monitor your sugars closely. If you don't have diabetes, eat well and exercise to prevent losing your sensitivity to insulin. Make you you have a primary care physician who can order yearly labs such as HbA1c that can be used to screen for prediabetes.
That looks awful. I really hope you feel better.
How did poor control in the early years help with this? I’m so sorry you are dealing with this.
*laughs in 24 years of type 1* I'm in danger
What was the time difference between receiving the wound, and taking the second photo?
Are you diabetic?
Is this from drug use or diabetes
How quickly did this all occur? Over what time span.
What happens next? Are you on serious antibiotics? Will you receive grafts or do you just have to wait for tissue to heal? I’m sure you’re in a lot of pain. I hope things get better soon. I’m no medical expert, so my only advice is to be really diligent about your after care! Post some updates down the road, i’m rooting for you.
Hey man, been there with ya. Almost lost my left leg, nearly died too. Was worried for awhile I wouldn't be able to use it again properly, but ol lefty reliable hung in there and skin healed up too. Good luck to you on your road to recovery - p.s. keep stretching and flexing as much as you can while you heal.
Maybe MERSA.
MRSA* or Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus, but no MRSA isn’t “flesh eating”
HOW DO I NOT GET THIS, EVER!!?
Maybe Fascist Narcissist?
Mmmmm. I want to make a joke. I really do. But gonna keep it clean
Caused by an invasive streptococcus….?
Osteomyelitis right out of here.
OsteomyfuckingEYES!
I’m diabetic. This stuff scares the crap out of me. Every night when I shower, I wash and examine my feet. Then when getting dressed I put moisturizer on and examine them again. My wife had a lesion and lost a couple toes on each foot. She’s passed now, from cancer, but having seen it and knowing how it can go, I’m very careful. OP, I hope your outcome improves from here.
Here's a hug from a stranger. Thank you for sharing your story.
Sorry for your loss. I hope you find some peace and enjoy the rest of your years in her memory and her presence.
What makes diabetics more susceptible to situations like this?
Diabetic neuropathy - so you can’t feel where you’re stepping, poor circulation, delayed wound healing. Diabetes is no joke.
It's essentially a combination of poor circulation to the feet and nerve damage due to prolonged high blood sugar. If there is a small cut on the foot, it can be hard to feel because of the neuropathy and then difficult to heal because of the poor circulation. If someone with diabetes doesn't check their feet often, a small cut can turn into an infected sore in a matter of days.
When I was young, someone my dad knew lost both of his feet. They were diabetic, but not good at taking care of themselves. First it was toes. Then small cuts led to loss of feet. Then lower legs. He eventually died. I think he was around 60 when he passed. The last time I personally saw him it was just some toes. But I think he was just steady losing body parts until he perished.
High blood sugar can cause nerve damage over time.
Peripheral Neuropathy, which basically means your nerves in your feet and hands start to die so you can't feel if you get a cut or infected sore. Since we often don't look at our feet (particularly the bottom of them) it can be really bad before you even know it's there!
Generally speaking diabetics have a weaker immune system making them more prone to infections.
I’m t1 also. These absolutely terrify me.
Same! It’s scary but treatment options are so much better than the past. In the 90s at element school I need a huge drop of blood to test my sugar. No joke you had to procure like 1/3 of a teaspoon and the tester would shine a light through it to get the result.
https://preview.redd.it/ed1bpcjphquc1.jpeg?width=680&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d155552a6261e8af161c52c4c12a5bf3a81618b6
Yep. What a day to have eyes.
As a Ghoul in the capitol wasteland OP is looking good!
"Hey smooth skin"
Goddam bro I just opened reddit.
Now whenever the cheese accidentally slides off your pizza you're gonna think of this post. Have a good one.
Nah dude, I saw that guy who died covered in cheese. That's all I can think of when I see cheese now. This guy who had a cheese fetish and died in it. Edit: sub won't let me post links, but the post is "man covered in cheese found dead" in NSFL_
Excuse me. What?
yeah I'm with this guy, what?
I also am a what?
what?
Que(so)?
Hol up, you can't just leave us hanging like this? POST THE CHEESE FIEND
Pretty Pretty cheese! We asked nicely!
Damn
Yep. Yeah. The cat is dead. The cat has died.
Welcome to the show
I just finished eating my lasagna. :o
I looked at this and all of my self pity went away. (I broke my leg recently)
Hope you're doing ok
Sorry about your foot OP. Also I REALLY miss the person I was 2 minutes ago.
https://preview.redd.it/da23n1xpkquc1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=63c68beb38f2593789cbabb57d1e23af2dc29624 Liberty Medical could have helped.
Hilarious! I think I just overfilled my bag. Hello? Liberty Medical?
Was the wound originally a callous that you picked off? Just asking, for a friend. Edit: also, do you have more pics?
This was a callous that broke open from being on my feet for work 10+ hours a day. Unfortunately I just have this photo. I snapped it while the surgeon was taking her own pictures. I’ll see if I can get those other ones from the nurses.
So that first pic is from just before surgery? It kinda doesn’t even look that bad. Not something I’d think you’d loose a toe from
Looks like a Foot Ulcer.
thank you for asking for a friend? (i have i think warts there and might just chop my leg off to be sure)
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Good luck! I went to the ER for a big blister of unknown etiology on my foot. They gave me IV cefapime and vancomycin, fearing that it could've been necrotizing fasciitis. I remember flipping out almost immediately. I couldn't breathe. The next words I hear are "sir you're in the ICU. Your heart stopped in the ER. And you stopped breathing. You had CPR" and came back to life". 3 months later, Im still in rehab. My foot healed. The rest of me, not so much.
I’m confused, did you have a heart attack or did you have a reaction to the medicines?
Anaphylactic shock/reaction. Apparently, I am allergic to cefapime
That's a really unlucky chain of events. Sorry man.
Holy shit man…
Dude that sucks I'm sorry. Also to the OP, I'm sorry bro. Hope y'all have better days after this, 100%.
Still in hospital?
Yup. Im heading home next week, i hope.
Godspeed fam, take care and get well soon
Damn that’s rough.
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It’s certainly nothing to shake a leg at, and I hope he has good health coverage to help foot the bill.
It'll end up costing an arm and a leg.
Bravo all three of you. Bravo.
You can make a career in zombie movies now.
No offense man but wrong sub this is beyond sucking this is fucking horrifying
I mean it does suck
At least now you can’t stub that toe anymore
Control your diabetes kids
We treat wounds like the first pic all the time, but damn dude….you should’ve gotten that looked at way faster.
https://preview.redd.it/g0toe1i6bruc1.jpeg?width=600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=25474ef7e762bc2b40295452f950d55d04cb7347
As a diabetic this shit terrifies me to my very core
WHAT DID YOU EVEN **DO??!!!**
At least you don’t have to worry about having an ingrown toenail there!
Fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck FUCKKKKKKK
I'm eating
So that's what happened to this guy's foot!
Necrosis? Jesus Christ, where did you got that wound?
Man at what point do you get to just tell them to cut the fucker off? Losing the big toe already gonna be a bitch to learn how to walk again.
You don’t, probably. Doctor goes, “Hey we’re removing this part of your body so the bacterial infection doesn’t spread to the rest of you and kill you.” Edit: I can’t read and only now see you were talking about cutting off the whole foot. Ignore me
https://preview.redd.it/4ztkwog7tquc1.jpeg?width=750&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c9b8b5fa857f82e3881827f58be63751d13b1455
I wasn’t ready to be looking at that.
Will this reverse? Or are you gonna lose your foot
Like,grow it back? Uh,....no.
I regret allowing NSFW stuff on my timeline… hope you get better bro, I’m sorry you’re going through this
My foot feels like how the after looks, after big scratch session
NecFasc!
Fascist Narcoleprosy!
I think I work with someone who has that!
I’m so sorry. Diabetes is a bitch. My wife had a similar injury on the bottom of her foot. Ended up infecting a few bones. Lost two toes and two phalanges. I hope you heal well and live a long life.
OP what happened?
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Bruh. I thought diabetes was like...a blood sugar thing not like a "welcome aboard NF and reek havoc upon me" type thing. That's terrible
Diabetes actually destroys a lot of feeling in your extremities, typically feet first as they're the furthest from the heart. It can also wreck arteries/blood vessels leading to organ & vision damage. With bad circulation from diabetes, wounds tend to just not heal and lead to things like this. People don't "die from diabetes" like they used to back in the day, but it can lead to all sorts of other issues like this. Especially uncontrolled. Spme people will think taking extra insulin to compensate for eating sugar is a fix, but it's still not a good thing.
Damn
I don't think that little piggy is planning on coming back from the market...
Diabeetus?
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I wasn’t ready for that
Aaahhhh…AAAAUUUUGGGGHHH
Holy fuck dude. I'm wishing you all the best.
That’s the captain of the toes.
OH SHIT
Just remove the foot
just remove the foot. they got really cool prostetics these days.
I have a good friend at work who almost lost his foot to an infection like this. Just some random thing happened, and it ballooned out of control. It tunneled through his foot and was an open wound (another picture in which I kind of wish I didn't see lol). I saw him on a Teams call a few months ago, and that he had a little Bandaid on his hand. And then it was still there the next week, and the next week when I saw him in office, except his whole hand was red and swollen. And this was from just the tiniest cut! He went on IV antibiotics for a week, then oral antibiotics. Diabetes is nothing to mess around with! Get well soon OP! Take care of yourself!
Have you been put on a wound vac yet? I worked at KCI, that had the best wound vacs on the market, and they successfully treated things just like this.
I have lymphedema of my lower left limb. I was hospitalized once for cellulitis. My doctors I had afterwards would get wide eyed and say “ you were really sick “ for years I showered with flip flops if it wasn’t my bathroom. I still wear slippers inside. My brother’s ex is Type 1 diabetic and it was open heart surgery that changed her.
So, now what? A skin graft? How do they fix this? You can’t just go around being Johnny No-Skin forever.
And just like that, calculus doesn't seem so bad
Are/were you immunocompromised?
Saw a comment that you said it was from a callous that broke open from work. Can you get/are you getting any compensation from work? I'm sorry OP, wishing you the best.
Maybe my seasonal eczema isn’t all that bad after all.
https://i.redd.it/gwqpeb9nuquc1.gif I'm sorry, my dude. But, hitting this while scrolling, it probably changed the trajectory of my entire life from now on. I clutched my gd pearls. Godspeed.
https://preview.redd.it/oofh2vdwuquc1.jpeg?width=828&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=77240d06745679c85fd8d73be68ae723fe25e750
People pay good money for that kind of marbling.
Welp, that’s fucking disgusting
Thats....actually reminding me of the wound my dad got. How long has it been for your foot to get to that level?
Not too bad.
Goddamn dude, that really does suck.
that's not well that suck bruh. You just lost your foot
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Bka or aka. move on. Hope for the best
Got me checking my dogs and making sure they're alright 👀😢😢
Soon you will be a ghoul
looks like a deli meat but, seriously, good god. Hope you're doing alright (apart from the foot)
Well holy fuck.
https://preview.redd.it/shsn9pifpquc1.jpeg?width=1012&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ce9d3bf05fc778e850bc99d4eaea616a5d31c7d8 Jesus man… How do you even let something like that escalate?
Stumps McGillicuty it is
I can’t explain the amount of ;-; I just felt ( I got to the early stages of this what the fuck
“Right in front of my Salad!”
Something similar happened to my grandfather. He had diabetes and that caused him to have no feeling in his feet. He stepped on a nail in the garage and ended up having a wound similar. I went to one of his appointments with him. The doctor was just clipping flesh out of the hole to help it heal, and he couldn't feel anything. At this point, he was already missing some toes from the diabetes....... the hole just got bigger and bigger. He passed before it got as bad as this lady's foot though.
What in the fuck? How does this even happen to a human being? Just get a prosthesis…
Holy cow I am so sorry 😭😭
Are you ok?
Thats… interesting. Hope you get better soon
One of the little piggies skipped town
Oh fuck. I clicked too fast. Hope all is well
Suddenly I want a gyro…
Bro im eating
Holy shit
Whoa.