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<blockquote data-quote="charon" data-source="post: 393307" data-attributes="member: 70242"><p>I agree.</p><p>I've been trying to find out the cause of diabetes related retinopathy, neuropathy and necropathy - which I guess are the important things.</p><p></p><p>I can find lots of research about diabetes and these complications but more difficult to find anything that says the high BG is the cause. I have a suspicion that often diabetes is taken to mean high BG rather than a control deficiency (which is possibly correctable) and so those that have diabetes but do not have high BG or large swings are discounted. I think it is only the BG that is the cause but can't confirm it.</p><p></p><p>I think the HbA1C is an average of the last 3 months and so if you are very high for a while but are usually low it will show as a good value. Whether or not the high values will do any lasting damage is the question. I suspect that the body will repair itself if enough time is given with lowish BG so the HbA1C is a reasonable tool but keeping things low would be better and I wouldn't want to wait 3 months to find out that something has changed - or maybe 5 months as it might need a full 3 months before the test to be detectable.</p><p></p><p>Other things are tiredness and lack of concentration - I had this but don't know whether it was due to BG spikes or continued high readings - I suspect the latter otherwise I would have had issues a lot earlier.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="charon, post: 393307, member: 70242"] I agree. I've been trying to find out the cause of diabetes related retinopathy, neuropathy and necropathy - which I guess are the important things. I can find lots of research about diabetes and these complications but more difficult to find anything that says the high BG is the cause. I have a suspicion that often diabetes is taken to mean high BG rather than a control deficiency (which is possibly correctable) and so those that have diabetes but do not have high BG or large swings are discounted. I think it is only the BG that is the cause but can't confirm it. I think the HbA1C is an average of the last 3 months and so if you are very high for a while but are usually low it will show as a good value. Whether or not the high values will do any lasting damage is the question. I suspect that the body will repair itself if enough time is given with lowish BG so the HbA1C is a reasonable tool but keeping things low would be better and I wouldn't want to wait 3 months to find out that something has changed - or maybe 5 months as it might need a full 3 months before the test to be detectable. Other things are tiredness and lack of concentration - I had this but don't know whether it was due to BG spikes or continued high readings - I suspect the latter otherwise I would have had issues a lot earlier. [/QUOTE]
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