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<blockquote data-quote="Mr_Pot" data-source="post: 2162097" data-attributes="member: 216415"><p>Damage already done by long exposure to high blood sugar levels may or may not improve with good control depending on the severity of the damage. However, once you are well controlled with low blood sugar why would you have additional complications associated with high blood sugar?</p><p>The feet can suffer in two ways, firstly the nerves can be damaged causing numbness and loss of feeling, this can result in accidental injury as you can't feel, say a stone in your shoe. Secondly damage to the small blood vessels results in poor healing so the unnoticed injury can become ulcerated and in the worse case lead to gangrene etc. Your feet should be checked annually by a nurse but better to check yourself for any small injury when you have a shower especially if you have any numbness.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mr_Pot, post: 2162097, member: 216415"] Damage already done by long exposure to high blood sugar levels may or may not improve with good control depending on the severity of the damage. However, once you are well controlled with low blood sugar why would you have additional complications associated with high blood sugar? The feet can suffer in two ways, firstly the nerves can be damaged causing numbness and loss of feeling, this can result in accidental injury as you can't feel, say a stone in your shoe. Secondly damage to the small blood vessels results in poor healing so the unnoticed injury can become ulcerated and in the worse case lead to gangrene etc. Your feet should be checked annually by a nurse but better to check yourself for any small injury when you have a shower especially if you have any numbness. [/QUOTE]
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