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Morning all.
I'm new to this and recently diagnosed pre-diabetic by my GP. I've been offered no real help except to be told to lose weight - not unreasonable advice. Anyway, I've bought a BG monitor but I'm having difficulty getting sufficient blood to perform the test from my fingers and am wasting these expensive strips! I'm following instructions to the letter - washing hands in warm water, shaking hands, pressing down with plunger thingy quite firmly on side of finger etc., but it's taking 2/3 attempts to get sufficient blood for a reading. It's all getting a bit sore and stressful and I've only been doing it for 2 days. Any advice would be very welcome.
Also, my readings seem to be all over the place and quite weird: 5.1 on waking yesterday; 2 hours after eating a meal containing 55g carbs shot up to 8.9 after and then back down to 4.9 after a further 2 hours. Went up after dinner to 5.9.
5.5 on waking this morning, had 2 cups of coffee + an apple and it's gone down to 5.2 now. Do these numbers sound reasonable? I have no way of knowing.
So to be so ignorant - I am researching as much as possible and reading posts on here to inform and educate myself because I really want to get this under control. Thanks for reading.
I'm new to this and recently diagnosed pre-diabetic by my GP. I've been offered no real help except to be told to lose weight - not unreasonable advice. Anyway, I've bought a BG monitor but I'm having difficulty getting sufficient blood to perform the test from my fingers and am wasting these expensive strips! I'm following instructions to the letter - washing hands in warm water, shaking hands, pressing down with plunger thingy quite firmly on side of finger etc., but it's taking 2/3 attempts to get sufficient blood for a reading. It's all getting a bit sore and stressful and I've only been doing it for 2 days. Any advice would be very welcome.
Also, my readings seem to be all over the place and quite weird: 5.1 on waking yesterday; 2 hours after eating a meal containing 55g carbs shot up to 8.9 after and then back down to 4.9 after a further 2 hours. Went up after dinner to 5.9.
5.5 on waking this morning, had 2 cups of coffee + an apple and it's gone down to 5.2 now. Do these numbers sound reasonable? I have no way of knowing.
So to be so ignorant - I am researching as much as possible and reading posts on here to inform and educate myself because I really want to get this under control. Thanks for reading.