Clear away all the medical terminology and the "softer terms" meant to keep from upsetting patients and you get the following that are essentially caused by prolonged high blood sugars (over a number of years - typically a decade)

And these happen 100% of the time - one or more of them are Going to Get You

Blindness

Kidney Disease that requires Dialysis leading to death

Neuropathy that leads to Gangrenous Infections that require Amputations which also leads to Congestive Heart Failure due to system overload

Vascular Dementia - looks like Alzheimers

Heart Attack and Stroke

Certain Cancers (Liver, Pancreas, Endometrial, Colorectal, Bladder and Kidney) and if diagnosed with one of these combined with an A1C higher than 6.5% makes the Cancer Super Agressive - the high blood sugar "Fuels the Cancer"

Plus any number of "Pesky but not Deadly" effects - digestive disorders, slow healing, reduced mobility and the list goes on

The ONLY WAY to prevent or minimize all the Nasty Stuff Diabetes CAN Cause is to aim to keep your A1C in the Non-Diabetic Range "forever"

Every second your A1C is over 6.5% the damage is accumulating - an A1C over 7.0% drastically speeds up your appointment with the "Complication Co-ordinator"

Keep your A1C below 6.0% - so below "Pre-Diabetic Levels" and it's almost like magic

If you don't have "diabetic level blood sugar" then you don't experience "diabetic complications"

And it is NOT More Complicated than that

Today with the basket full of Medication Options and established Lifestyle Changes that have been proven clinically to work, there is no EXCUSE not to have your blood sugar UN-Controlled - we have all the tools, just have to use them....

PS - A1C targets can vary by age and the above is for those Diagnosed before Age 70 who want to live to see their 70th Birthday - with the average age of diagnosis now down in the Mid-40's younger and younger people are treating their bodies like Garbage Dumps and developing "diseases that used to be for the OLD" early and having to manage them for Decades if they even want to survive to Retirement Age

We now maximize "how you feel" over "are you healthy" as our treatment standard and we minimize Truths that may hurt our feelings...