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<blockquote data-quote="kitedoc" data-source="post: 1800096" data-attributes="member: 468714"><p>I would like to shift the question response back to the unawareness aspect.</p><p>At 45 years mark on insulin and despite 6 to 8 injections per day ( Levemir x 2, Novorapid x 4 to 6) I was having lots of ups and downs. Night hypos were becoming more frequent and there is nothing more frightening than not being able to know when I was hypo because I was asleep and my hypo awareness day and night was diminishing. HBA1Cs were coming in around the 60 plus mark.</p><p>It was by going on an insulin pump that my blood sugars improved, as did my HBA1Cs ( now regularly around the 46 mark) AND my hypo awareness improved. Now at 51 year mark and still needing to improve !!</p><p>My doctor said that my brain had become used to the high sugars and my hypo awareness had been blunted as a consequence.</p><p>I look forward to the Freestyle Libre app arriving in Oz on Wednesday !! Even without the alarm it will give my poor fingers a rest. They need it after 37 years. ( home based glucose meters only became available in OZ from 1980)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="kitedoc, post: 1800096, member: 468714"] I would like to shift the question response back to the unawareness aspect. At 45 years mark on insulin and despite 6 to 8 injections per day ( Levemir x 2, Novorapid x 4 to 6) I was having lots of ups and downs. Night hypos were becoming more frequent and there is nothing more frightening than not being able to know when I was hypo because I was asleep and my hypo awareness day and night was diminishing. HBA1Cs were coming in around the 60 plus mark. It was by going on an insulin pump that my blood sugars improved, as did my HBA1Cs ( now regularly around the 46 mark) AND my hypo awareness improved. Now at 51 year mark and still needing to improve !! My doctor said that my brain had become used to the high sugars and my hypo awareness had been blunted as a consequence. I look forward to the Freestyle Libre app arriving in Oz on Wednesday !! Even without the alarm it will give my poor fingers a rest. They need it after 37 years. ( home based glucose meters only became available in OZ from 1980) [/QUOTE]
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