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<blockquote data-quote="Nicole T" data-source="post: 2321094" data-attributes="member: 527609"><p>I think it's more statistics than individual's wellbeing driven. When you crunch the numbers, you probably find that chucking drugs at people and suggesting easily made modifications to diet is the most cost-effective way of managing diabetes at a national level.</p><p></p><p>Of course as the person who has to deal with the real world consequences of your own illness, you want a better than average outcome. You ideally want the best possible outcome for you, or realistically a good compromise between that and a reasonable quality of life in other areas. </p><p></p><p>It does seem we're stuck with tailoring our own solutions if we want to be on the good side of the bell curve. I thought I was doing well staying below 8.5, 95%+ of the time most days, but a few people (even outside of these forums) have told me I should be aiming to keep my figures in the 4's and 5's, and shouldn't be satisfied with the high 6's to 7's that I'm getting most of the time.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Nicole T, post: 2321094, member: 527609"] I think it's more statistics than individual's wellbeing driven. When you crunch the numbers, you probably find that chucking drugs at people and suggesting easily made modifications to diet is the most cost-effective way of managing diabetes at a national level. Of course as the person who has to deal with the real world consequences of your own illness, you want a better than average outcome. You ideally want the best possible outcome for you, or realistically a good compromise between that and a reasonable quality of life in other areas. It does seem we're stuck with tailoring our own solutions if we want to be on the good side of the bell curve. I thought I was doing well staying below 8.5, 95%+ of the time most days, but a few people (even outside of these forums) have told me I should be aiming to keep my figures in the 4's and 5's, and shouldn't be satisfied with the high 6's to 7's that I'm getting most of the time. [/QUOTE]
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