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I have uncontrolled sugar for the past 11 year.Will I develop early complications.
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Grateful
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Welcome to the forum. My guess is that it depends very much what you mean by "quite average." Details, please -- and sorry if that is a rather personal question, from a fellow Type 2.
If you are keeping your blood glucose levels at 'non-diabetic' levels, then I believe your life expectancy should not be significantly impacted, and your chance of complications would be relatively low. The higher your spikes and averages, the higher your chance of developing resultant complications.
sometimes one can say it is never too late... but well how would any of us know if one of us have got non-reversable nervedamage or if ones pancreas has had servere damage...
but if there is not a ireversible damage , then nothing is ever too late.... when it comes to getting blood glucose down into the the pre-daibetic level or even into the non diabetic level...
I am now in a normal level, but I know that my mother who has only sparsely been prediabetic for a short period and is not anymore , I know my mother has a very servere neuropathy.. which she takes medication for many times daily, and some days also takes morphine up till 3 times daily...
so no-one can promise anything in here .. but of cause ones risk lowers individually statistically if one takes good care and keeps diabetes blood glucose down in the lower blood glucose area..
and if not till now, you could start from now on to take the best care of your body and control your diabetes from now on, and this forum is a great place to be for support and ideas of how to lower blood glucose ..
but if there is not a ireversible damage , then nothing is ever too late.... when it comes to getting blood glucose down into the the pre-daibetic level or even into the non diabetic level...
I am now in a normal level, but I know that my mother who has only sparsely been prediabetic for a short period and is not anymore , I know my mother has a very servere neuropathy.. which she takes medication for many times daily, and some days also takes morphine up till 3 times daily...
so no-one can promise anything in here .. but of cause ones risk lowers individually statistically if one takes good care and keeps diabetes blood glucose down in the lower blood glucose area..
and if not till now, you could start from now on to take the best care of your body and control your diabetes from now on, and this forum is a great place to be for support and ideas of how to lower blood glucose ..
Grateful
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I have just gone through this thread again and realized that your initial post is slightly contradictory.
The thread title speaks of "uncontrolled sugar for 11 years" but the post itself says your diabetes control has been "quite average." It matters a lot which of these is correct.
Apart from anything else, if your blood glucose levels have been truly uncontrolled for 11 years, you would quite possibly already have at least some of the complications of diabetes. (I say this with the proviso that I am not a doctor and we know almost no details of your case.)
pavlosn
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I don't think anyone on this forum is in a position to answer this question for you.
What we do know is that the higher you have run your sugars from the normal level and the longer the period for which they have been in this elevated range the higher the probability that diabetic complications could result. But this only talks of probabilities not certainties. It is a bit like smoking and say lung cancer. Smoking is known to increase the risk of lung cancer but not all smokers do develop cancer.
While it is understandable that you are raising your concerns and in fact very much a positive that you are being concerned, there is little that you can do to alter the past but everything you can do regarding the future.
Use your concern as motivation to get your sugars under better control now and going forward. Irrespective of what you had ve done before, this will have a positive effect on your health in general and on your chances of avoiding diabetic complications.
It really is up to you to turn a negative into a positive and you will be the beneficiary of this. But you need to take action now.
What we do know is that the higher you have run your sugars from the normal level and the longer the period for which they have been in this elevated range the higher the probability that diabetic complications could result. But this only talks of probabilities not certainties. It is a bit like smoking and say lung cancer. Smoking is known to increase the risk of lung cancer but not all smokers do develop cancer.
While it is understandable that you are raising your concerns and in fact very much a positive that you are being concerned, there is little that you can do to alter the past but everything you can do regarding the future.
Use your concern as motivation to get your sugars under better control now and going forward. Irrespective of what you had ve done before, this will have a positive effect on your health in general and on your chances of avoiding diabetic complications.
It really is up to you to turn a negative into a positive and you will be the beneficiary of this. But you need to take action now.
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Chronically elevated blood glucose levels will likely cause health problems that could reduce your life span or at least reduce quality of life. So, if those are things you want to avoid, I think it is a good idea to try to keep you blood glucose levels as close to normal as possible. Or at least below levels that damage is done to the organs, which is above 7.8 mmol/L for extended periods:
http://www.phlaunt.com/diabetes/14045678.php
http://www.phlaunt.com/diabetes/14045678.php
