[Diabetes-talk] A quick question about testing

[Tom And Eileen Rivera Ley]

Question: how often do blind and visually disabled people with diabetes test glucose each day?  More, less, or  as often as our sighted peers?  I'd love to know your experience. 

Eileen Rivera Ley
Baltimore, MD


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> Eileen, your post interests me. 
> I use Prodigy Voice, and I always thought when it said "blood glucose level
> low" that the glucose was indeed low.  Am I incorrect in this? I've gotten
> the "not enough blood" error, and I always took that to mean a different
> error. 
> When it says "blood glucose low" I normally have other symptoms. 
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