Hello. Had to start testing after a stable few years of Type 2

[CHRIS HAZELGROVE]

What have members found to be the best times of day for testing BSLs? Is there an optimum gap before/after eating or drinking? Also, how difficult is it to assess the effect of alcohol? Thanks for any help.

 

[Kaylz]

What have members found to be the best times of day for testing BSLs? Is there an optimum gap before/after eating or drinking? Also, how difficult is it to assess the effect of alcohol? Thanks for any help.

Hi and welcome to the forum 🙂
Are you self funding your test strips or do you get them on prescription?
To check the effects foods have on you, you should test before you eat, then again 2 hours after, ideally you are looking for no more than a 2-3mmol rise xx

 

[Ljc]

Hi Welcome to the forum. Kaylz is right , to find out how the various carbohydrates affect us, as we’re all different in this. Test just before then two hours after starting to eat.
If you have a read of these it will help you know what your looking for
test-review-adjust by Alan S

If your funding your own test strips
teting-on-budget by Alan S

You’ll find the above and more in this thread , just scroll down to the T2 section
useful-links-for-people-new-to-diabetes.
Which for future reference you’ll find at the top of the newbies forum .

Feel free to ask any questions you have re diabetes, we’ll do our best to help

 

[CHRIS HAZELGROVE]

Thank you, genius folks! You help made testing seem much less mathematical..more easily remembered.

 

[Ljc]

Oh I forgot this one.
painless-pricks also by Alan S