[Diabetes-Talk] blood sugar question

[Rick Alfaro]

Hi Lisa. I have to say that I've been using a Prodigy meter for a few 
years now and I still have lots of trouble getting enough blood and 
placing the tip of the test strip right on the spot. I don't use the 
Prodigy any longer but I used to have to sometimes stick myself 2 or 3 
times to get a workable blood sample. I now use the Free Style Libre 
where I don't have to do any finger sticking at all thankfully.



On 5/1/2020 7:29 AM, Lisa Belville via Diabetes-Talk wrote:
> 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.
>
> Lisa Belville
> missktlab1217 at frontier.com
>
> 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.
>>
>> Bridgit
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
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>> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>> Lisa Belville
>> missktlab1217 at frontier.com
>>
>> 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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