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Good job. Sugar levels matter, too high is not good, too low can be deadly. Sugar is what your brain runs on. If it goes too low, your brain stops working, which is very bad. Important suggestion:
ALWAYS carry a little something with sugar in it, hard candy, glucose tabs, whatever. If you are feeling shaky, headache, sweaty, just not right, chew it up and eat it, then check your blood sugar. If you are too high, going from 400-450 is not that big a deal. If you go from 50-100, you just saved yourself a trip to the hospital.
The A1C(glycosylated hemoglobin) measures what percentage of your hemoglobin is bound to sugar. The red blood cells live about 90 days, hence the A1C is directly proportional to what your average sugar has been over the last quarter.
The numbness you describe is not consistent with diabetic neuropathy really. Do you have any back problems?
If you want to be motivated to control your diabetes, go to a dialysis center and look around at those poor souls. If you ever start to lose your resolve, go back for a little refresher. Go take a nutrition class, get a foot doctor too, I can maybe hook you up with one if you like, the foot doctor, not the nutrition class.
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