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<blockquote data-quote="Deleted member 99312" data-source="post: 2362499"><p>I don't understand the question. On initial diagnosis in 2014 I was type 2, at that time I had very high blood sugars to the point my vision was very blurry and it permanently changed my previously perfect eyesight so I now need glasses to read which I never did before. However, no sign of retinopathy at that time or since until this year. I got my blood sugar back into the normal range and controlled it well, with a high fat, low carb diet which worked until 2019 when I found my blood sugars wouldn't go below the low to mid teens for a few weeks, I was then tested and put on insulin and formally classified as type 1. Does that answer your question and what is the point of you asking please?</p><p></p><p></p><p>One small bleed in one eye only.</p><p></p><p></p><p>A test on mice showed that prolonged low blood sugar made them go blind. How low and for how long, I don't know. Whether a person can tolerate regularly going into the 3s, and in my case sometimes I have gone as low as the 2s or even I think I've had like 1.7 a few times, for as long as a few hours if I've been in bed and woken up that way, I don't know - do you know? Or are we guessing here. I *hope* that is not causing any problems. I suspect it could be, so is best avoided - as are prolonged highs above 8.</p><p></p><p>Or are you saying that regularly going low or high (say 2-3 on the low side, and 10-12 on the high side) for a few hours will never result in eye damage? I find that hard to believe. I'd like to believe it, because it would make life a lot easier. I may hope to live another 30-40 years as I am in my late 40s. So I am young enough that it is not good enough for me to just 'slow down' the rate of retinopathy progression, I need to not have any at all if I want to see in future.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Deleted member 99312, post: 2362499"] I don't understand the question. On initial diagnosis in 2014 I was type 2, at that time I had very high blood sugars to the point my vision was very blurry and it permanently changed my previously perfect eyesight so I now need glasses to read which I never did before. However, no sign of retinopathy at that time or since until this year. I got my blood sugar back into the normal range and controlled it well, with a high fat, low carb diet which worked until 2019 when I found my blood sugars wouldn't go below the low to mid teens for a few weeks, I was then tested and put on insulin and formally classified as type 1. Does that answer your question and what is the point of you asking please? One small bleed in one eye only. A test on mice showed that prolonged low blood sugar made them go blind. How low and for how long, I don't know. Whether a person can tolerate regularly going into the 3s, and in my case sometimes I have gone as low as the 2s or even I think I've had like 1.7 a few times, for as long as a few hours if I've been in bed and woken up that way, I don't know - do you know? Or are we guessing here. I *hope* that is not causing any problems. I suspect it could be, so is best avoided - as are prolonged highs above 8. Or are you saying that regularly going low or high (say 2-3 on the low side, and 10-12 on the high side) for a few hours will never result in eye damage? I find that hard to believe. I'd like to believe it, because it would make life a lot easier. I may hope to live another 30-40 years as I am in my late 40s. So I am young enough that it is not good enough for me to just 'slow down' the rate of retinopathy progression, I need to not have any at all if I want to see in future. [/QUOTE]
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