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<blockquote data-quote="JoKalsbeek" data-source="post: 2411512" data-attributes="member: 401801"><p>Who's fitting management of it in 24 hours? T2 is a lifetime thing, <em>and</em> one of the moment. When someone falls off the wagon, it's easier to say tomorrow's a new day to try, as some arbitrary line in the sand, because that's just how our minds work. But diabetes, well... If you're over 8,5 mmol/l, it does damage to your body. Everything suffers, your eyes, kidneys, nerve endings, heart, veins, liver... Stay up there for a long period of time, and you get more damage. If you decide to monitor over a month because you feel a day is nonsense, and you're up high for two weeks and have excellent blood sugars for the other two, the good weeks aren't going to cancel out the damage done in the high weeks. You can't bargain with diabetes. It just hurts you when it can. So don't let it. That's your choice of course, but...</p><p></p><p>...Today I found out that some issues I've been having, have been partially caused by the years I spent as an undiagnosed diabetic. Five years of excellent control haven't changed a thing about the early years, when I was in the double digits and just didn't know. Here I was, thinking I'd headed the bad stuff off. Still have nerve damage though. It doesn't bargain. You can't bank anything. You just deal best as you know how, and combat it as much as you can or want.</p><p></p><p>I'm so sorry, because wholeheartedly, I wish you were right. It just doesn't work that way. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite3" alt=":(" title="Frown :(" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":(" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="JoKalsbeek, post: 2411512, member: 401801"] Who's fitting management of it in 24 hours? T2 is a lifetime thing, [I]and[/I] one of the moment. When someone falls off the wagon, it's easier to say tomorrow's a new day to try, as some arbitrary line in the sand, because that's just how our minds work. But diabetes, well... If you're over 8,5 mmol/l, it does damage to your body. Everything suffers, your eyes, kidneys, nerve endings, heart, veins, liver... Stay up there for a long period of time, and you get more damage. If you decide to monitor over a month because you feel a day is nonsense, and you're up high for two weeks and have excellent blood sugars for the other two, the good weeks aren't going to cancel out the damage done in the high weeks. You can't bargain with diabetes. It just hurts you when it can. So don't let it. That's your choice of course, but... ...Today I found out that some issues I've been having, have been partially caused by the years I spent as an undiagnosed diabetic. Five years of excellent control haven't changed a thing about the early years, when I was in the double digits and just didn't know. Here I was, thinking I'd headed the bad stuff off. Still have nerve damage though. It doesn't bargain. You can't bank anything. You just deal best as you know how, and combat it as much as you can or want. I'm so sorry, because wholeheartedly, I wish you were right. It just doesn't work that way. :( [/QUOTE]
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