That kind of thinking makes me steam, because I know it's patently false. My last A1c was 4.9%, and I do NOT go stumbling through life in a hypoglycemic fog! Non-diabetics don't need to wait a chunk of the day to make sure their hyperglycemic tendency is caused by hormones before they inject their Lantus, and they don't get high blood sugar from a stressful situation. There are many ways in which my blood sugar will rise and a non-diabetic's won't, and in order to have a non-diabetic A1c I need to balance that somehow. So I make sure I don't spike after eating, which is something non-diabetics can and often do. I'm lucky because my digestion is slow, but the others I know that have A1c's in the low 5's or upper 4's use diet and a combination of insulins to make sure they don't spike after a meal. I work at home in my office, and if my blood sugar is in the upper 60's and I don't feel like eating anything, I don't...... I just let it be, which is also something non-diabetics don't usually experience.
BUT I test like a fiend, and make sure I treat any blood sugars below 65 so that I maintain my hypo-awareness, which I consider vital. I can feel when I'm in the 60's, and if I'm driving a long distance, I want that alarm clock! Correcting the medical profession is an exhausting chore, and after 21 years of witnessing a never-ending series of mistakes made by them, it's shocking to see people take their word as gospel. But that's just what I did the other day when I went in with an arm covered in cellulitis from an insect bite. I didn't know anything, and thought it was Lyme disease. At least they got the diagnosis right (as far as I know), but they actually had the cheek to summon the doc to give her approval before I shot up.
