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Severe hypoglycemia is a medical emergency, making sure that doesn’t happen is less harmful in the long term.
by wolfendin 4y ago
Severe hypoglycemia is a medical emergency, making sure that doesn’t happen is less harmful in the long term.
- grahar64 4y agoDCCT found reducing hyperglycemia to optimize for low HbA1c was 3x less risky than trying to reduce hypoglycemic episodes. Hypos are bad, but long term hyper is worse. That’s why you get a HbA1c test when ever you get a physical. It’s like you didn’t read all my citations :)
- fredrikholm 4y agoShort term death is pretty bad.
- wolfendin 4y agoI’m aware of both of these things. My overall point to the GP is that the sleep disruption of finger sticks is less bad then the sleep disruption that happens when you go too high OR too low.
- grahar64 4y agoOh, 100% agree. I read your comment in the wrong context from an above comment. As a non-T1D person I can only guess how shit being low or high feels. So listening to T1D people describe how it feels is very useful for me as a T1D parent.