[Diabetes-talk] Glucose testing, and that elusive drop of blood

[Joy Stigile]

Hi Paul,

I had that same problem before.  So, I started pricking my finger only along
the crease.  I use it as a guide.  I also decide before if I am going to use
the left, center or right side along the crease.  
I have also found that if I slant the meter and strip at a slight angle the
blood gets absorbed easier in to the layers at the strip's  edge.

Good luck and good pricking!

Warmly, Joy from California
    

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Subject: [Diabetes-talk] Glucose testing, and that elusive drop of blood

Hi All,

 

Long time lurker seeking some assistance.

 

I had  been going ok with doing my blood tests, but beginning 2 nights ago I
have found it extremely frustrating!  

 

I came down to pricking my finger 3 or 4 times before trying to get a
measurement, and wasting more than that number of strips with error
messages, before getting a reading.

 

Today my daughter called by, and explained that I am getting enough blood
out, but that it is moving away from the puncture site before I get the test
strip to it, and that I am not so good at getting the strip to the puncture
site either, but the main issue is the blood drop going for a wander.

 

I am wondering whether over there, there might be some sort of little
plastic ring like mini dam I could put over / around the puncture site to
stop the blood drop moving away.   Then I could move the test strip along my
skin till it reached the little dam wall, then up and over into the blood.

 

Am I just dreaming?

 

Is there another way?

 

Any help will be much appreciated.

 

Thank you,

Paul from Australia

 

 

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