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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Casper2614" data-source="post: 1663182" data-attributes="member: 466416">HiYou really need to inject your insulin as keeping your numbers that high all the time will damage your body.  You only feel **** when they are coming down because your body is not used to it as you have been running high for such a long time.  As soon as your body gets used to the lower numbers you will feel better again and probably find that you have more energy and feel less sluggish.  Bring it down slowly though as going from 25 - 6 is probably not the best way to do it and you want to watch out for hypos which are the other end of the scale.  I suffer from hypo anxiety so have been keeping my number high between 10-14 for the last couple of months but know I have to reduce it further and get back to 5-7 as that is the healthy range.  I feel rubbish that I am keeping my numbers that hight as I know it causes damage so I feel your pain and can only suggest what I am trying to do and that is to reduce the high numbers and stop yourself from encountering complications.  Good luck</blockquote>

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