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I'm posting this thread in the hope someone would help me with an advice or their own experience.

First of all, let me mention that my glucose has never been stabile - it has always been doing jumps and lows. I am 25. This sounds sad and it is but even though i've been living with diabetes for the past 15 years (only 15 years compared with a lot of you) i already have rhetinopathia and polyneurophatia.

Considering this fact, i was struck dumb when the neurologist at the Croatian diabetes institute told me my condition was satisfactory considering the number of years i've been a diabetic!

My other and in fact bigger gripe (and what the above stems from) is that i haven't been taken seriously by a lot of specialists i have seen in the past 2 years, about these symptoms:

-constant dizzyness
-constant feeling of 'shakiness' or trembling from the inside - i feel as if my sugar is rapidly dropping - but it isn't!
-i feel cold very often, and shivering, even at higher temperatures when i would always feel normal several years ago
-i get tired very soon and at the end of the day i'm literally shivering with fatigue
-my concentration and the ability to think quickly is considerably lower
-occasional numbness in feet, more often tingling sensation (but even that has seemed to stop in the past few months)

I have done many tests. My thyroid gland is excreting all hormones just as it should. My blood circulation, my heart condition and the level of cholesterol are all normal. My kidneys and liver work ok. But still i don't feel normal at all.

When i complained to my diabetitian about these symptoms he told me it may very well be neuropathy, that this could be the reason why i have all these sensations. I've also done some yahoo search and i thought this may be it then - neuropathy. I am sure some of it is caused by this but i had to get off work (it was a stressfull job) and i am not feeling safe walking in the street on my own much more often than not. So this state is not normal at all.

Why then has the neurologist said that he doesn't see any connection between the state i'm in and the symptoms i describe. He is said to be one of the best in the country but that doesn't make me any less concerned about my body.

Another thing is the tests that i had done were only on peripheral nerveous system (as part of the program they do in the institute) so my diabetitian advised me to go to another clinic and have tests done there. When i did the neurologist there told me that it was all in my mind! And without even considering the possibility that it might be otherwise.

I went to another diabetitian to ask for a second opinion but she told me that this didn't have anyhthing to do with my constant change in blood glucose - that is, my nerves weren't damaged by oscillations in my blood glucose.

I am completely confused. Anyone that has ever experienced this or something like this, please help with at least your story or advice. It will be greatly appreciated.

Natasha

ps. please excuse grammatical errors or phrases which are not correct, english is not my first language.