[Diabetes-talk] testing difficulty

[Colleen Roth]

Hi,
Well the only thing new that I discovered in these posting is wrapping a rubber band around finger at first joint.
Since I have the same issue I will give this a try.
Colleen Roth



----- Original Message -----
From: d m gina <dmgina at samobile.net>
To:  diabetes-talk at nfbnet.org
Date: Wednesday, Nov 14, 2012 01:21:39 PM
Subject: Re: [Diabetes-talk] testing difficulty

>
>
> 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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