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Message: <blockquote data-quote="urbanracer" data-source="post: 2171437" data-attributes="member: 140811">Hi Kat and welcome to the forums.Sadly, your story is not uncommon. The constant routine of testing and injecting can become a severe drag and for a few people this leads to burnout and not caring what happens to yourself.As you have recognised, an A1c of 12 (I assume this is mmol) is too high and is likely to lead to complications in the longer term, so you are right to be concerned.Tiredness is a side effect of high glucose levels, basically there is insufficient insulin to allow the body to use the glucose for energy, so tiredness and lethargy often result.What's less understood is the effect of high glucose levels on one's emotional state. Many of us would testify to becoming sad and or bad tempered with constantly high glucose levels. Fortunately this usually goes away quite easily when levels come down. In the meantime though this can make you less likely to care about yourself and it's not an easy cycle to break.For myself, trying to avoid long term complications keeps me fairly well motivated, is your fella aware of the risks?It sounds as though he might benefit from a help group if you have access to one. But you obviously will not find it easy getting him there. Can you get him on here and reading these pages?Best wishesUrb.I will tag a few T1 colleagues into this. [USER=475037]@Marie 2[/USER] [USER=53162]@Juicyj[/USER] [USER=206249]@Diakat[/USER] [USER=47983]@therower[/USER] [USER=372207]@Antje77[/USER] [USER=515320]@Ellie-M[/USER] [USER=468714]@kitedoc[/USER] who may have something to add.</blockquote>

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