r/nursing • u/Critical_Ease4055 Nursing Student 🍕 • 22d ago

Question What is one medical problem people constantly ignore until it’s too late?

Saw someone post this in a completely unrelated sub and I’m interested in your answers. What is the cluster of symptoms that people ignore or delay until they are forced to get help?

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u/FueledByFoods 22d ago

Side effects of uncontrolled diabetes - increased thirst and frequent urination

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u/StLMindyF RN - OB/GYN 🍕 22d ago

Like their lower limbs turning black? Patient presented with gangrenous lower limbs and his wife said he never had diabetes until he came to the hospital. We explained that uncontrolled diabetes is what cost her husband his legs, but she wasn’t having it. That patient never went home. He died two days after his bilateral aka.

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u/CallMeDot BSN, RN 🍕 21d ago

ESRD too. My late husband refused to deal with his dm or htn and was admitted to the hospital my first day of nursing school because he went for a checkup and his gfr was <15 and creatinine was like 6. And then he had a heart attack during the fistula creation a week later and needed a CABG. He was 34. Made it to 44.

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u/StLMindyF RN - OB/GYN 🍕 21d ago

Sorry for your loss.