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Sable_Jan
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Skipped some of the posts as I started at the beginning - usually a very good place to start but when a post gets rolling its quite a task to make it to the end.
Glad this subject came up as I've found that I'm getting worse about it rather than better!! I think I need to find which fingers and parts of which hurt the least. I've got arthritis in my fingers and mild fibromyalgia so that doesn't help things . A friendly squeeze on the arm can be really painful for me.
Anyhow, like many of you have said warm fingers to create most blood though I think that's when it hurts me most. If I don't use the deepest setting I sometimes don't get any blood at all. Though everything says to use the sides of the finger pad I might try the middle next - but will work my way around my fingers until I find the least painful. They say use an icecube when you are plucking your eyebrows but I think that I'd defo get no blood at all if I tried that!
I'm pre-diabetic so it is self inflicted torture BUT it has helped me to see that high GI carbs (not that I usually have many) really does push the reading up even 3 hours after a meal - had pie as part of my evening meal tonight, at a Crown carvery - it looked good and I was tempted but I'll stick to the meats from now on. Another thing testing my blood has done is to show me how much I DO snack between meals (far healthier stuff these days but I've found myself reaching for the fruit, nuts etc well within the 2 hours - sometimes I DO feel hungry but mostly my mouth wants it.....
Glad this subject came up as I've found that I'm getting worse about it rather than better!! I think I need to find which fingers and parts of which hurt the least. I've got arthritis in my fingers and mild fibromyalgia so that doesn't help things . A friendly squeeze on the arm can be really painful for me.
Anyhow, like many of you have said warm fingers to create most blood though I think that's when it hurts me most. If I don't use the deepest setting I sometimes don't get any blood at all. Though everything says to use the sides of the finger pad I might try the middle next - but will work my way around my fingers until I find the least painful. They say use an icecube when you are plucking your eyebrows but I think that I'd defo get no blood at all if I tried that!
I'm pre-diabetic so it is self inflicted torture BUT it has helped me to see that high GI carbs (not that I usually have many) really does push the reading up even 3 hours after a meal - had pie as part of my evening meal tonight, at a Crown carvery - it looked good and I was tempted but I'll stick to the meats from now on. Another thing testing my blood has done is to show me how much I DO snack between meals (far healthier stuff these days but I've found myself reaching for the fruit, nuts etc well within the 2 hours - sometimes I DO feel hungry but mostly my mouth wants it.....