I'm so sorry that you are suffering so much. My pain isn't anywhere near as bad as yours, even when it was at its worst, although it was pretty debilitating. I have never needed heavy duty painkillers. I just took vicodin when it got really bad occasionally and did all of the other things I mentioned.
Just read all my suggestions for monitoring your bg and you will figure out quickly if something is wrong and if it could be affecting your symptoms. No one is going to put you on insulin unless you have type 2 and are at the stage to need it or you have type 1. Insulin isn't a solution for vulvodynia but if you have diabetes and it is affecting your pain etc. treating the high bg will help you. I would say my pain is cut by a huge margin now and life is much more bearable. I do have pain and flair ups still but I haven't needed to take a pain killer for them and it's not anywhere near as bad or as constant- I still have to do all of the things I started doing that helped me when it was really bad though. During a flair up I usually use the estrogen cream more frequently, drink a lot more water( I already drink tons), wear skirts and avoid any friction on the area and get more rest. That seems to help me. I have also noticed that eating flax seed seems to help produce cervical mucus at one point so that may help too, it produces estrogen in the body.
There are two basic type of diabetes: type 1 caused by autoimmunity and destruction of beta cells and the ability to produce insulin and type 2 of unknown cause as of yet, which is often characterized by metabolic syndrome: high cholesterol, insulin resistance, weight gain and other symptoms/issues- eventually leading to destruction of beta cells. There is also MODY which is a genetically caused type of diabetes which has its own subset of types.
If you have high bg that can cause low level yeast infections and chronic inflammation through out the body. The urinary symptoms and irritation are typical for women with diabetes and also happen when you start to go into menopause which is partly why women tend to ignore other possible causes of their symptoms and assume it is purely menopause. External Insulin helps regulate your bg when your body isn't producing enough insulin to metabolize glucose either due to lack of insulin or insulin resistance. Controlled bg would mean less inflammation, less or no yeast infections and so on- yeast is a fungus which feeds off of sugar. It is very common for women to have severe yeast infections as insulin production drops or the ability to use your own insulin is impaired and blood glucose levels are high. Many people have pre diabetes or diabetes and don't realize it and it doesn't always show up in a fasting or non fasting test. Early on your bg levels may be fluctuating before you get chronically high levels. In type 2 the fasting bg level is often normal while after meal numbers are very high- eating of carbohydrate causes jumps because there isn't enough insulin or you can't use the insulin the you produce well enough to metabolize glucose.
So in other words if you don't have insulin to metabolize food and get the glucose into your cells, it stays in your blood and wreaks havoc on your body causing infection, organ damage, damage to vessels and nerves and more. Eventually if you have type 1 you will go into dka due to total lack of insulin and die, for type 2 your bg will keep going higher and higher and you can go into a coma and or die from stroke and cvd if the diabetes isn't diagnosed. Normal bg levels are 80-90, when your body is working properly it always keeps your bg levels at that range not usually going above 120 unless you eat a very high carb meal. Even if you don't have diabetes you may also get some relief by cutting carbs from your diet: sugars/rice/starchy foods, soda and so on. Also try eliminating anything with wheat. I have a wheat sensitivity and I have found eliminating gluten has helped me, specifically wheat seems to be the worst for me. I hope this helps. I would also explore other pain killing methods other than those really addictive drugs like morphine. Maybe amytryptilline or a tens unit and pt. Have you tried that? Maybe acupuncture, etc. I guess it's worth trying.
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Hi Tyler,
I'm so sorry that you are suffering so much. My pain isn't anywhere near as bad as yours, even when it was at its worst, although it was pretty debilitating. I have never needed heavy duty painkillers. I just took vicodin when it got really bad occasionally and did all of the other things I mentioned.
Just read all my suggestions for monitoring your bg and you will figure out quickly if something is wrong and if it could be affecting your symptoms. No one is going to put you on insulin unless you have type 2 and are at the stage to need it or you have type 1. Insulin isn't a solution for vulvodynia but if you have diabetes and it is affecting your pain etc. treating the high bg will help you. I would say my pain is cut by a huge margin now and life is much more bearable. I do have pain and flair ups still but I haven't needed to take a pain killer for them and it's not anywhere near as bad or as constant- I still have to do all of the things I started doing that helped me when it was really bad though. During a flair up I usually use the estrogen cream more frequently, drink a lot more water( I already drink tons), wear skirts and avoid any friction on the area and get more rest. That seems to help me. I have also noticed that eating flax seed seems to help produce cervical mucus at one point so that may help too, it produces estrogen in the body.
There are two basic type of diabetes: type 1 caused by autoimmunity and destruction of beta cells and the ability to produce insulin and type 2 of unknown cause as of yet, which is often characterized by metabolic syndrome: high cholesterol, insulin resistance, weight gain and other symptoms/issues- eventually leading to destruction of beta cells. There is also MODY which is a genetically caused type of diabetes which has its own subset of types.
If you have high bg that can cause low level yeast infections and chronic inflammation through out the body. The urinary symptoms and irritation are typical for women with diabetes and also happen when you start to go into menopause which is partly why women tend to ignore other possible causes of their symptoms and assume it is purely menopause. External Insulin helps regulate your bg when your body isn't producing enough insulin to metabolize glucose either due to lack of insulin or insulin resistance. Controlled bg would mean less inflammation, less or no yeast infections and so on- yeast is a fungus which feeds off of sugar. It is very common for women to have severe yeast infections as insulin production drops or the ability to use your own insulin is impaired and blood glucose levels are high. Many people have pre diabetes or diabetes and don't realize it and it doesn't always show up in a fasting or non fasting test. Early on your bg levels may be fluctuating before you get chronically high levels. In type 2 the fasting bg level is often normal while after meal numbers are very high- eating of carbohydrate causes jumps because there isn't enough insulin or you can't use the insulin the you produce well enough to metabolize glucose.
So in other words if you don't have insulin to metabolize food and get the glucose into your cells, it stays in your blood and wreaks havoc on your body causing infection, organ damage, damage to vessels and nerves and more. Eventually if you have type 1 you will go into dka due to total lack of insulin and die, for type 2 your bg will keep going higher and higher and you can go into a coma and or die from stroke and cvd if the diabetes isn't diagnosed. Normal bg levels are 80-90, when your body is working properly it always keeps your bg levels at that range not usually going above 120 unless you eat a very high carb meal. Even if you don't have diabetes you may also get some relief by cutting carbs from your diet: sugars/rice/starchy foods, soda and so on. Also try eliminating anything with wheat. I have a wheat sensitivity and I have found eliminating gluten has helped me, specifically wheat seems to be the worst for me. I hope this helps. I would also explore other pain killing methods other than those really addictive drugs like morphine. Maybe amytryptilline or a tens unit and pt. Have you tried that? Maybe acupuncture, etc. I guess it's worth trying.
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