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<blockquote data-quote="Scott-C" data-source="post: 1994741" data-attributes="member: 374531"><p>Hi, Caeseji, I'm T1 so I rarely comment on T2 threads, but here's a little story from my past.</p><p></p><p>A couple of months after I was dx'd, I read a story about a 25 yr old T1 who had paid no attention at all to monitoring levels, and she was facing going blind.</p><p></p><p>As a newbie, that story terrified me. It was a huge motivator for me to test, make sure I was in range as much as possible.</p><p></p><p>Thirty yrs later, I have no complications. The author of the story tightened up her act and came out of it ok, not blind.</p><p></p><p>There are differences between T1 and T2, but the underlying message is the same: take care of your bg levels, and, while there are no guarantees at all on complications, all the evidence shows that if you pay attention to this stuff, the chances of getting complications is massively reduced, they are not inevitable, not by a long shot.</p><p></p><p>Those 5 and 6 numbers are looking good, and the screening we get for picking up early stage retinopathy is very good</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Scott-C, post: 1994741, member: 374531"] Hi, Caeseji, I'm T1 so I rarely comment on T2 threads, but here's a little story from my past. A couple of months after I was dx'd, I read a story about a 25 yr old T1 who had paid no attention at all to monitoring levels, and she was facing going blind. As a newbie, that story terrified me. It was a huge motivator for me to test, make sure I was in range as much as possible. Thirty yrs later, I have no complications. The author of the story tightened up her act and came out of it ok, not blind. There are differences between T1 and T2, but the underlying message is the same: take care of your bg levels, and, while there are no guarantees at all on complications, all the evidence shows that if you pay attention to this stuff, the chances of getting complications is massively reduced, they are not inevitable, not by a long shot. Those 5 and 6 numbers are looking good, and the screening we get for picking up early stage retinopathy is very good [/QUOTE]
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