[Diabetes-Talk] blood sugar question

[Veronica Elsea]

Louise, if you are totally blind, you can forget the forearm testing. You have to prick, pinch the area where you've lanced, and hold it there until the clear cap fills with blood. Then you take the stabber away and put the meter strip up to the spot. Let's just say, if you can do this, you're way more talented than I am. <grin> 
The only thing I could add to all of the other comments is the reminder that these meters can be off 20 per cent either way. So even at best, you could see quite a range. When I tried using the Prodigy Voice, my numbers were all over the place. It was clearly an issue of the amount of blood. And just to make things even crazier, if you really study these things, you'll discover that they can be off if they get too much blood. Bottom line, this is not the exact science they make it out to be. Do the best you can and give yourself a great big giant hug. 
Veronica


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-----Original Message-----
From: Diabetes-Talk [mailto:diabetes-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of maurice mines via Diabetes-Talk
Sent: Thursday, April 30, 2020 2:23 PM
To: Diabetes Talk for the Blind
Cc: maurice mines
Subject: Re: [Diabetes-Talk] blood sugar question

 It is interesting, but the subject comes up because I was just about ready to ask a question because I have a meter that has been misbehaving lately. So I switch to what I thought was a bit older meter and the accuracy seems to be getting better.

What caused me to question the accuracy one day I did a test and it came out at 345. I know I’m nowhere close to that normally. Which immediately told me something might be off. Change meters and the test went quicker and turned out to be nothing more than 118. So I definitely know what the last poster was talking about regarding how long it takes to do the test. If it happens right away, then I think it’s good if it takes too long I get very suspicious very fast.

Sincerely Maurice Mines.

> On Apr 30, 2020, at 12:39, Bridgit Kuenning-Pollpeter via Diabetes-Talk <diabetes-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> In my experience, if it takes more than a second for the strip to accept my blood, it's going to error. I take it out even before the meter reads it and start again.
> 
> Bridgit
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Diabetes-Talk <diabetes-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org> On Behalf Of Lisa Belville via Diabetes-Talk
> Sent: Thursday, April 30, 2020 2:30 PM
> To: Louise Peyton via Diabetes-Talk <diabetes-talk at nfbnet.org>
> Cc: Lisa Belville <missktlab1217 at frontier.com>
> Subject: Re: [Diabetes-Talk] blood sugar question
> 
> This has happened to me once.  I think it was something funky with the meter.  It was early in the morning before I'd eaten and I could tell my sugar was     getting low.  The test said it was 155, so I purposely took it again from a different finger and the reading was 94, which is more consistent with my morning readings.  It didn't take long between testing of the first finger, hearing the reading, removing a new strip and doing another test, probably less than three minutes.
> 
> 
> If it kept happening I'd think there was something wrong with the meter or the strips since it can't test if there's not enough blood so that couldn't be what's causing the discrepancy.
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> 
> Lisa Belville
> missktlab1217 at frontier.com
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> On 4/30/2020 2:03 PM, Louise Peyton via Diabetes-Talk wrote:
>> Hello:
>> Does anyone know why you can have two different blood sugar readings from different fingers after a few seconds of finger pricks that are within a minute of each other?
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