[Diabetes-talk] High sugars in the wake of skipping a snack?

[Michael Park]

Hi there.

Don't love the meter at all, but as you rightly say, you have to know 
what is potting with your sugars to be able to manage and in a sense, 
while medication does what it does, it cannot do everything.

If you were here when I do my tests, you will see that I pull the most 
amazing faces before the lancet pricks my finger. It is a hundred times 
worse though, when someone else pricks my finger. Some folk, when they 
prick your finger, just about take your hand off in the process.

Nevertheless, we grin and bare it and to try and make the experience 
more durable for me, we actually play a little game. I try and guess 
what my reading is going to be before I test, but the only problem is 
that these days, more often than not, I am in the mark.

the only thing that throws me out a bit is that while my mouth is dry 
when my sugars are high, I also take another medication which has the 
same effect so that even if my sugars are OK, I still have a dry mouth 
which renders the guessing a rather unfairly difficult exercise since in 
effect, both factors mask each other.

Michael Park
"I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God Than dwell in the tents of wickedness." (psalm 84:10 NKJV).

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On 2010/11/22 12:03, Dorothea Martin wrote:
> Hello, Michael,
> Thanks for the long panegyric on testing. I needed this. Here in 
> Albania I am criticized for regular testing because no one else seems 
> to do it. Don't worry. I have no intention of giving it up. If I had 
> to make the choice, I would give up my medication before I would give 
> up testing. Not that I'm planning on this either, but if I had to, I 
> could probably keep my blood sugar in order just with diet, movement 
> and testing, though I don't think I could do it without any knowledge 
> of where my blood sugar is, despite all the medicine they could give me.
> I am a newly-diagnosed type 2, but my blood sugar meter is my second 
> best friend, only less cuddly than the dog.
> Dotty Martin
>