[Diabetes-Talk] blood sugar question

[Milton]

Hello Lisa,

Are you able to meet with a Diabetes Educator or a Nurse via a virtual meeting to help you figure out and help you check to see if you have enough blood to draw or even a sighted family member.

Even using Be My Eyes or Aira might also be of help until you get a good idea about how much blood is coming out. I must say that testing for a blind person can sometimes be guess work.



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From: Diabetes-Talk <diabetes-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org> On Behalf Of Lisa Belville via Diabetes-Talk
Sent: Friday, May 1, 2020 9:33 AM
To: Michael Barber via Diabetes-Talk <diabetes-talk at nfbnet.org>
Cc: Lisa Belville <missktlab1217 at frontier.com>
Subject: Re: [Diabetes-Talk] blood sugar question

Just a nutritionist back in January before the Covid made an appearance.  I would need more hands on assistance, and I'm not sure how that could be done unless the person had the right PPE. This is a rural area, so we don't have great access to resources right now.


I've only gotten conflicting results once, but I sometimes have issues getting enough blood.  It doesn't happen often, but it bothers me because there's a strip wasted.


Lisa

Lisa Belville
missktlab1217 at frontier.com

On 5/1/2020 7:57 AM, Michael Barber via Diabetes-Talk wrote:
> May I ask if you've beem to a diabetes education class as yet?  Your insurance should pay for it and I found it was a pretty good experience.  You might do a one on one eith your diabetic educator when it comes to  a finger poke and see if they can help.  It's a real pain to start with, but eventually you get used to it.
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> Good luck.
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> Michael
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> Lisa Belville via Diabetes-Talk
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> To: Bridgit Kuenning-Pollpeter via Diabetes-Talk 
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> Cc: Lisa Belville <missktlab1217 at frontier.com>
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> You've had years of practice.  <grin>  The hardest thing for us Newbies is to know if we have enough blood in the first place.  It can be frustrating, especially if I'm running low on strips.
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> Lisa Belville
> missktlab1217 at frontier.com
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> On 4/30/2020 2:39 PM, Bridgit Kuenning-Pollpeter via Diabetes-Talk 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.
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>> Bridgit
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>> Lisa Belville via Diabetes-Talk
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>> Cc: Lisa Belville <missktlab1217 at frontier.com>
>> Subject: Re: [Diabetes-Talk] blood sugar question
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>> 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
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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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