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Blood sugar and memory

Over the past, oh year and a half or so, I have noticed a severe decrese in my mental ability to remember things.  Mostly affecting my short term memory, repeating things, asking the same questions over and over, not able to remember what tasks I am doing, or have completed… the list goes on.  I think this deteriation started over 10 years ago when my blood sugar control was really bad.  I origionally blamed it on stress, emotions, getting older.  But recently as my good blood sugar control has slipped a bit and I noticed it getting worse again and I started to question if there was a connection.  Low and behold today I opened the New York Times (online) and found this article I which is very interesting to me.

NYT Health

Blood Sugar Control Linked to Memory Decline, Study Says

By RONI CARYN RABIN
Published: January 1, 2009

As the body loses its ability to regulate glucose, parts of the brain involved in memory lose blood flow, researchers find. .
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This entry was written by Salty and posted on January 1, 2009 and filed under Cystic Fibrosis Related Diabetes, diabetes.
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  1. Good find! I wonder if I have the same problem even though I’m only borderline CFRD. I definitely can get a nasty case of CRS every now and then.

    1. Darby on January 3rd, 2009 at 11:25 am

  2. I also believe there is some truth to this. I’ve heard it from others as well. I’ve always thought it was low BG’s that did the most “damage”, but who really knows?

    2. Scott K. Johnson on January 1st, 2009 at 5:09 pm

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