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<blockquote data-quote="ButtterflyLady" data-source="post: 963861" data-attributes="member: 43498"><p>Research suggests that BGs need to be under about 8.5 to avoid complications like kidney failure, blindness and amputations. There are also less serious effects of high BGs like persistent skin rashes, fatigue and irritability. The longer BGs are over 8.5 the more likely complications are. The target range for most people is 4-8.5. Under 4 is a hypo and will usually make the person feel weak to start with, and worse if it goes lower.</p><p></p><p>BGs have bad effects when they are too high, and also when they swing around too much or too fast. The ideal state is to keep them fairly stable, between say 5-7 most of the time. If you start at 6 and spike by more than 2, then it's easy to go above 8.5.</p><p></p><p>A BG of 12 is too high - the person would likely feel fatigue and mood swings in the short term, and they would be slowly doing damage to their body... if it stayed this high for more than a few months they could start getting early signs of complications.</p><p></p><p>At the moment you have prediabetes but if you keep eating the same types and amounts of foods you could progress to diabetes before too long. Changing what you eat is the key to reducing your risk of getting diabetes and possible complications.</p><p></p><p>You wouldn't need to test your BGs all the time, just enough at the start to learn about the effect different foods have on your BGs. I tested a lot for the first few weeks and now I only do it once every few weeks. The reason your son has been testing so often is because his BGs have been too high. As he reduces them, he won't need to test as much. Sometimes his BGs were well into the 20s, and at that level the person can get ill and need hospitalisation so it's important for them to keep checking.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ButtterflyLady, post: 963861, member: 43498"] Research suggests that BGs need to be under about 8.5 to avoid complications like kidney failure, blindness and amputations. There are also less serious effects of high BGs like persistent skin rashes, fatigue and irritability. The longer BGs are over 8.5 the more likely complications are. The target range for most people is 4-8.5. Under 4 is a hypo and will usually make the person feel weak to start with, and worse if it goes lower. BGs have bad effects when they are too high, and also when they swing around too much or too fast. The ideal state is to keep them fairly stable, between say 5-7 most of the time. If you start at 6 and spike by more than 2, then it's easy to go above 8.5. A BG of 12 is too high - the person would likely feel fatigue and mood swings in the short term, and they would be slowly doing damage to their body... if it stayed this high for more than a few months they could start getting early signs of complications. At the moment you have prediabetes but if you keep eating the same types and amounts of foods you could progress to diabetes before too long. Changing what you eat is the key to reducing your risk of getting diabetes and possible complications. You wouldn't need to test your BGs all the time, just enough at the start to learn about the effect different foods have on your BGs. I tested a lot for the first few weeks and now I only do it once every few weeks. The reason your son has been testing so often is because his BGs have been too high. As he reduces them, he won't need to test as much. Sometimes his BGs were well into the 20s, and at that level the person can get ill and need hospitalisation so it's important for them to keep checking. [/QUOTE]
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