First ever Glucose in blood test..........

[queenbee01]

🙂Thank you for the links to getting a free glucose in the blood reading monitor, It arrived this afternoon and after calibrating it and the jabber thingy, I did my first ever blood test! I guess you do all know what your talking about! the result was 10.1, I'd also done a urine test with my wee stip which gave me a reading of negative! If I had not have got the blood testing meter I would have carried on thinking Great another negative result. Instead I'm thinking BUMMMER! 3.5 over what it should be. and with a history of poor HBA1c readings in the past and my endeavors to control my BS over the last year, I now realise how rubbish the diabetes care is in this neck of the woods.
The only thing the meter and instructions did not give was how frequently I should be testing my blood sugars. with the wee strips it was before just before meals and 3-4 hours after meals? What do you guys do?
Bare in mind that I am doing this off my own bat with no advice from the doctors yet.
I'm still keeping that July 13th appointment with the doctor and will try to get the strips on prescription using the next weeks blood test verses wee test results as black and white evidence. Wish me luck on that one.

 

[Northerner]

Ah, good to hear you now have a meter 🙂 Have a read of Test,Review, Adjust by Alan S as a guide to efficient use of test strips to get the best information from them 🙂

Good luck! 🙂

 

[queenbee01]

Thanks Northerner

Thanks Northerner, I'm on it now!🙂

Ah, good to hear you now have a meter 🙂 Have a read of Test,Review, Adjust by Alan S as a guide to efficient use of test strips to get the best information from them 🙂

Good luck! 🙂

 

[everydayupsanddowns]

Brilliant news about the meter Queenbee - yes I really do believe you have been 'lulled into a false sense of security' by your nurse saying that urine testing was sufficient.

That link Northerner gave (and some of the pages linked from that blog) will help tremendously in terms of seeing how food affects you.

Remember - there are no 'bad' test results, just information to tell you things. And at this point the differences (before and 1 or 2 hours after eating) are probably more important than the numbers themselves.

What you are looking for are foods and/or portion sizes that dont make your levels rise so much (maybe 3 or so higher than before you ate). The lower the difference is, the better your results will be once you have got your starting level down - and that is likely to happen gradually as you fine tune your diet.

 

[queenbee01]

Moff to bed now. Thanks Chaps!

🙂Moff to bed now chaps, Thanks both! Ive read the link Northerner, Wow! I feel further enlightened and happier about starting this blood sugar reading malarkey. Fabulous blogs by Alan, really inspirational.
Gee! Im bushed but feel tremendously supported and happier about the journey ahead. TTFN

Ah, good to hear you now have a meter 🙂 Have a read of Test,Review, Adjust by Alan S as a guide to efficient use of test strips to get the best information from them 🙂

Good luck! 🙂

Brilliant news about the meter Queenbee - yes I really do believe you have been 'lulled into a false sense of security' by your nurse saying that urine testing was sufficient.

That link Northerner gave (and some of the pages linked from that blog) will help tremendously in terms of seeing how food affects you.

Remember - there are no 'bad' test results, just information to tell you things. And at this point the differences (before and 1 or 2 hours after eating) are probably more important than the numbers themselves.

What you are looking for are foods and/or portion sizes that dont make your levels rise so much (maybe 3 or so higher than before you ate). The lower the difference is, the better your results will be once you have got your starting level down - and that is likely to happen gradually as you fine tune your diet.

 

[trophywench]

Alan is A Star - met him last year when he came over here and came to our meet (not this forum, another one that he posts on) he fitted us in between St Petersburg (via Kerala) and somewhere else ..... Not coming here this year, he's off to Burma ... or is it Borneo? - read his Travel blog too LOL Can't keep up with the chap!

Anyway what I was going to say is - there's a little section of his Blog entitled 'Testing on a Budget' which should help those of you who are funding your own strips - and that's exactly why he wrote it.