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Message: <blockquote data-quote="phdiabetic" data-source="post: 1751280" data-attributes="member: 317494">Dreadful! I would tell her what for! I sometimes get comments telling me off for having anxiety about low blood sugars, even from medical professionals! (At the dentist I had fluoride put on my teeth, they told me no eating/drinking for half an hour, I said my blood sugar is going down I will probably need to have something, they argued that I probably wouldn't get low and implied I was worried about nothing. Sure enough my blood sugar continued going down just like I said. What a surprise, I know my own body!) If people don't know much about diabetes I usually use it as a chance to educate. I explain how low blood sugar can make you pass out, have seizures, brain damage and even death! I explain about normal ranges of blood sugar, and about the devices I use, and how I treat a low. People think there is nothing to worry about because they have usually never seen anybody having a hypo, and if they've met diabetics before they are usually badly controlled ones who are perpetually high and therefore hypos never came up. Diabetes is extremely serious!! Don't let her get you down, you know you're right and she just has no idea.</blockquote>

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