[Diabetes-talk] Ouch

[Eileen Scrivani]

Ross, 

Sounds like your doing the finger stick right on the tippy-tip of your fingers.  Try doing the stick a bit further down and to either side of the finger.  In fact I think you can do this on your left hand without greatly impacting your guitar playing.  I stick myself as far down as the first joint area without any problems.  And although the angle is a little awkward, I use the thumbs as well. 

Good luck.

Eileen 

From: Ross Winetsky via Diabetes-Talk 
Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2016 11:04 PM
To: diabetes-talk at nfbnet.org 
Cc: Ross Winetsky 
Subject: [Diabetes-talk] Ouch

Hello everyone,

 

I'm a new member to the list and am totally blind. I use the prodigy voice.
I have a problem I'm hoping someone can help me with. I'm a guitarist so I
only test on my right hand because I have calluses on my left and don't want
to desensitize my fingers when playing guitar. I use insulin so I test five
times per day. My fingers on the right-hand are quite calloused and sore. I
have started using gold bond diabetic hand cream which helps some, but it is
often quite painful and difficult to get a good test sample. I've tried
using alternative sites, but I found that it is near impossible with no
vision

 

Anyone have an idea how I can test my fingers without making them so sore
and difficult to obtain samples from

 

Thanks so much,

Ross

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