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<blockquote data-quote="Diamattic" data-source="post: 941169" data-attributes="member: 138639"><p>[USER=94348]@ann34+[/USER] - Yes I am newly diagnosed (15months ago), and yes, my doctor put me on a pump. But sadly an 'acceptable HbA1c' has nothing to do with 'effort' or difficulty, or time spent living with diabetes. Our body only sees damage or no damage, it doesn't get that someone is trying their best and its really hard, so it won't give that person complications. </p><p></p><p>I understand that in the long term I (or others) may not be able to maintain my current level of control, but that doesn't change what is acceptable, it just means that my HbA1c is no longer acceptable, at that point it will suck seeing that on paper, but it will either mean i need a large change in my life, or learn to live with a 'non-acceptable' HbA1c and what that means health wise.</p><p></p><p>Regardless of what we deem as acceptable everyone's bodies reacts differently, and its still very possible to have a 6.5% and get complications, or early death. So someone saying "X.X% is acceptable" doesn't really make it so. We just have to shoot for as close to normal as possible, and the farther you are away from that, the higher the risk.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Diamattic, post: 941169, member: 138639"] [USER=94348]@ann34+[/USER] - Yes I am newly diagnosed (15months ago), and yes, my doctor put me on a pump. But sadly an 'acceptable HbA1c' has nothing to do with 'effort' or difficulty, or time spent living with diabetes. Our body only sees damage or no damage, it doesn't get that someone is trying their best and its really hard, so it won't give that person complications. I understand that in the long term I (or others) may not be able to maintain my current level of control, but that doesn't change what is acceptable, it just means that my HbA1c is no longer acceptable, at that point it will suck seeing that on paper, but it will either mean i need a large change in my life, or learn to live with a 'non-acceptable' HbA1c and what that means health wise. Regardless of what we deem as acceptable everyone's bodies reacts differently, and its still very possible to have a 6.5% and get complications, or early death. So someone saying "X.X% is acceptable" doesn't really make it so. We just have to shoot for as close to normal as possible, and the farther you are away from that, the higher the risk. [/QUOTE]
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