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Can somebody give me an answer to a strange but simple question.

My wife has been diabetic for about 14 years now and manage to keep the diabetes under control. How true this is but I am not so sure myself but is it true that having too high blood sugar from eating sweets and chocolate which are given as treats at times can cause confusion in the diabetic person.

I am asking this because her family have said over a couple of occasions over the last week who have indicated that it can but I have not been able to find any information on the websites indicating this to be true.

Also, her last HBA1c test indicated that her blood sugar over a period of time was at 5.2 and I know in this time that she had eaten both sweets and chocolate.

Her previous one was 5.9 which was just after I had taken control of her insulin injections which I took on due to her falling down the stairs and when she came out of hospital she could not inject herself.

Prior to this i think that we were told that the tests were above 7 which means that since i took full control that it has come down to a healthy level for her.

I know that on occasions when I monitor her blood sugar at home it can sometimes be 15 or so but this was just after she had eaten a full meal but in general after eating it is round about 10 or even below.

Any help would be grateful so I can put her mind at rest. She wont eat sweets or chocolate at the moment and was upset at what her family had told her.

Thanks in anticipation.

Hal
 
You are comparing apples with oranges
HbA1c and blood glucose do not correlate exactly. look on my guie to bood testss for the explanation
5.2% Hba1c is brilliant.
Usually a high BG doesn't have much in the way of symptoms. your wife's are likely to be in the 4s most of the ime to get that HbA1c. The odd sweet isn't doing much harm.
 
In terms of the confusion issue, it depends on what you read. Two things may have popped up

Theories that in the long term hypos cause cogntive impairments due to chronic starvation of glucose to the brain. No proof either way I suppose.Serious hypos can cause brain damage but thats serious,unconscious paramedic hypo stuff.

Theories that Alzheimers is more likely in diabetics due to the microvascular (small vessels) damage cause by sugar sticking to the haemoglobin/vessels). Conversely I read that insulin helps protect agains Alzheimers so...........

As for the A1c, thats a great indicator of how much damage you could get so as low as possible/normal to non diabetics as possible is great. Wifes is great. I would say however there are suggestions that high spikes cause some damage and a good score doesnt tell you about the day to day routine. I know someone with an A1c of 5 who has hypos every day in the 2's, and can jump to the 20's

Still, all we can do is our best and then hope the rest is ok :?
 
I'd advise testing her blood as soon as she shows these symptoms. Either lows, even if not to truly hpyo levels, or highs, may cause such symptoms. Unfortunately so can many other things.
 
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