- Do people with diabetes get injured more easily?
- Posted by Melissa
In February, we had just stopped for a light and were hit from behind by a
car driven by another driver. I was driving and Jennifer ( 43 ) was in the
passenger seat. I walked away from it with only some minor back pain that
required some physical therapy but she had to be taken to the hospital on a
board, and was in the hospital for 4 days and a rehab center for almost a
month. She had a badly sprained back and some slightly pinched disks.
Despite all kinds of physical therapy, she is still not better with some
numbness and weakness in her right arm and pain up and down her back, and
she still gets severe pressure pain in her head from something, the doctors
don't know why, though it's now less frequent than right after the
accident.
Part of this may have been due to the fact that the car was hit harder on
that side, it was turned about 30 degrees to the left afterwards. But she
also has diabetes and I do not.
Someone was telling me that people with diabetes can get injured much more
easily than people without it, and it can be much harder to heal.
Are there any authoritative papers on this, somewhere on the web, that I
can read and perhaps show her and her doctors?
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Yours In Liberty, Melissa - Colorado, U.S.A.
- Posted by Julie Bove
"Melissa" <Melissa@pagan.neta> wrote in message
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There are probably a number of things that are going on here. The main one
being that she was in a different part of the car than you were.
As to the healing, it is true that diabetics *can* take longer to heal, when
it comes to wounds such as cuts. Not sure if the type of injury she had
would take longer to heal. But another thing is that she could have already
had some damage such as Neuropathy and this exacerbated it.
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- Posted by Loretta Eisenberg
I dont have any statistics on this, but it has never been a problem to
me.
Loretta
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terrorism.
- Posted by GS
Probally not more injured... But if you are not well controlled it's likely
that it can be much harder to heal.
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GS
HBA1C: 4.5%(3.5-6.5)
No med, just exercise and diet
"Melissa" <Melissa@pagan.neta> skrev i melding
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- Posted by Frank White
In article <vkfrosgrk97le8@corp.supernews.com>, jnospambove@bestweb.net
says...
This is true. The tests the researchers have done show that the
dynamics in car accidents can change dramatically, depending
on where in the car a person is. This is why you can have
accidents in which some are killed and others walk away unhurt.
How controlled her diabetes is might also be a factor...
FW
