Hi Richard.
I do hope you are right. I don't doubt that you are an intelligent and articulate man.......not the issue here. What is the issue is what we should advise people, to try and make sure they don't make the same mistakes as some of us have made. I am certainly not going out on a limb and telling somebody that low Bg's do not have a cumulative effect. I do not know and it appears neither do many other people, even experts disagree. I'm just a Diabetic.....what do I know ?
As I said there is a growing body of opinion amongst the medical community here and elsewhere that it is and can be detrimental. I certainly wouldn't want to be the one to advise anybody that it is really nothing to worry about whatever anybody else in the USA or here said. I prefer to go on what I see and what I have read, we have had many articles and reports claiming one thing one year then a few years later it's all change. Just my opinion.
There is certainly evidence available which I posted here the other day that in infants up to 5 yrs old hypoglycaemia is a growing risk, if it is bad for a child in development.........why should we think that it has NO effect on an Adult's brain ?
I am not convinced by the arguments that are put forward in old posts. My Endo and many other medical professionals thinks that there IS a connection. If they are all wrong then I stand corrected........however I am not prepared to take a risk of damaging an already older brain, I shall be 62 this month. I want all my faculties to be intact for many more years to come.
As for being the first to suggest things........I am glad of that....makes people think about what they are telling others. I have seen it mentioned before on these forums and it always provokes debate. I don't think anybody has yet come up with a definitive answer.......so, I am afraid we will have to agree to disagree on this one.
We are all different and I never did run with the crowd ! :wink:
Ken