[Diabetes-talk] testing difficulty

[d m gina]

I do the tips of my fingers, not the pads.
Check with your diabetic person, they should come up with a way for you 
to do this.

Original message:
> I can't get enough blood for testing.  I've had help from a sighted friend
> who has diabetics in her family and we're not having any luck getting
> enough blood on the test strip or anywhere else after I use the lancet.  I
> have gone into testing several other different areas on my fingers
> excluding the index fingers since I still read and use braille and for
> that reason those index fingers are off limits.  In the last five days I
> managed only one fasting reading and that was 90 on Monday.  Today I took
> my first dose of generic glucophage too.  If I'm lucky, maybe the extra
> medication in addition to generic hctz and generic licinipril and generic
> provocol may help me solve this problem.  Finally, so far as I can tell
> aerobic exercise doesn't help either.


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