Am just curious - How many times do you measure each day? At 6 months, i am still learning and I sometimes go overboard (once i did a dozen times in a day). But mostly i am still doing 6 - 8 times a day, which I think is too much (and expensive too). I have no specific instructions from my doctor.
Secondly, i am also curious if “30 day / 90 day average BG level” etc. are any useful? I do panic when i have a high reading (over 8). but my 90 day average (with over 400 measurements) looks closer to 7. Should i worry less? Or these average across months is a useless metric?
as a type 2 measuring is good, if one is a type 1 there is no way around measuring ones blood glucose
I am type 2
During the first months I measured 3-4 times a day, Firstly in the mornings, which I still do, and then before and after a meal, now I don´t measure that much...
Don´t measure much now as I do know how much carb is in my usual meals and when out with others I try to avoid eating a lot of the stuff with many carbs in, like bread potatoes, sauce with flour in it .. and family knows I many times eat the foods without bread now... like meat-slices and cheese and eggs and tomatoes ... instead of sandwiches ..
I put ALL my food choices in my lifesum app even the days I cheat, so I always know how many bad days I have and so on.. but I also count my level of proteins every day and try to stay around 80 grams of proteins ...
my daily goal of carbs is 100 grams , but I am not very good at staying in that area... but everyone is different some can keep blood glucose in normal range when only being under 50 grams and others can cope with 120 grams ... my numbers are only truely normal in the mornings if I stay under 80 grams in total for the whole day.
when we measure we need to know about the carb level in the meal and of our total daily range of carbs as well otherwise it gives no meaning to measure...
DO YOU KNOW YOU PERSONAL DAILY LEVEL OF CARBS ?
IS IT 100 GRAMS
OR IS IT 50 GRAMS
OR IS IT EVEN UNDER 20 GRAMS A DAY...
TRY FOCUS ON THAT ..