[Diabetes-talk] Testing Difficulties

[eileen scrivani]

Kris,

If you are in a cold part of the country it could be due to the weather like 
you mentioned.  I have in very cold weather, and some of the time but not 
all of the time, taken to wearing in the house fingerless mittens. 
Sometimes they are also called convertible mittens.  They are still awkward 
if your doing more involved tasks, but they can warm up the fingers and help 
get blood flowing to the extremities.  The other thing it to be sure to keep 
your hands moisturized during the rest of the day.

During a hospital stay, the nurses told me they even had hand warmers if I 
needed them to help the blood flow in the fingers.  Apparently it is a big 
enough problem for diabetics when it comes to testing.  I think you can buy 
them in a lot of places and sometimes they are ceramic or sometimes they are 
like bean bags.  In either case, you pop them in a microwave to heat them up 
for a bit and then warm your hands by holding them.

HTH.

Eileen

-----Original Message----- 
From: Kris Hickerson
Sent: Saturday, January 18, 2014 4:51 PM
To: diabetes-talk at nfbnet.org
Subject: [Diabetes-talk] Testing Difficulties

Hi All,



I'm new to this list, although some of you have encountered me on other
lists.



For the past month or so, I am having trouble getting my fingers to bleed
enough for a good test.  This morning I stuck myself seven times on four
different fingers and never did get a good test.  I can't be sticking myself
so much as I'm a braille user and also it just keeps my fingers too sore for
general use.



I know you need to get that first good drop of blood just in the right spot
on the strip and generally I can do that.  My hands tend to be a little cool
so I have held them under warm water but that still doesn't seem to help
much.  I'm using the Prodigy Voice.  Are there some techniques I need to be
aware of.  This is really frustrating!



Thanks much.



Kris

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