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Hello everyone, just found this forum and joined. I am a 21 year old male, I was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes 2.5 years ago. My doctor at the moment has not been very helpful throughout the entire situation, basically gave me medicine to take and such after I was first released and I have been going off that ever since. I have gotten my control a lot better and changed a few things here and there myself. I will be seeking a new doctor once I get home from school this spring, as I am currently in college 3 hours from home. I am a big car guy and I am usually on Mustang forums all the time, so it finally dawned on me to see if there were any diabetes forums out there the other day. So hopefully you guys can help me with a few questions that I'll be posting as I think of them.

My current one is a pain I get in my legs at times. When I am running late to class, I will walk super hard to make it there quickly. The day after my legs are usually in pain and it seems like a muscle ache, in both legs, below the knees, same on both sides. Also I have noticed in recent months that when I cross one of my legs while sitting in class, I can only keep it up for about a minute or two before it starts bothering me. Before I had diabetes I could keep my leg crossed, either one for a long time no problems. Now it seems as if maybe my blood is not circulating correctly. I take my medications in my legs, at the side in the fat in my thigh. I take Novolog on one side for meals, and Lantus on the other leg once a day. I have always taken my medicine in my legs, so hard spots have developed in those areas. I was wondering if this could have something to do with the blood flow in my legs or be related to it. What do you guys suspect to be the problem? And is there some type of test I can take to measure the blood circulation in my legs, at a doctor, what would the test be called? Also, is it bad that I always take my medicine in my legs? I just cannot see myself doing it anywhere else, what do you guys do?

Thank you very much for your help! This has been really bothering me, and happens every few months when I over work my legs, I usually get the pain for a few days before it goes away. Such as now I have had it for about 3 days.

Thanks again!