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Thanks everyone :-D

But why is it that sometimes my levels go up a few points after food and for the first time today it's gone down after food. If my body produces insulin does it just mean it's done that before but the food I chose had more of an impact so I saw a rise. In other words...does this mean that what I...

@Enclave - licking my lips now. I need to go eat!! :-D

7.1 - but my reading before I went to bed was 6.3 so confused as to why it was higher because I hadn't eaten anything in between?

Last night I had my lowest reading ever at 10pm of 6.3 a few hours after eating. I was so excited I couldn't wait to see what it was this morning. So after eating nothing else I woke up this morning and took my reading at 7am. It was 7.1 ?? Higher! Then I decided to have half a protein roll...

mmm...maybe a year but I'm sure the doc tested me for this in the last year or two. Came as a total shock as supposed to have a triple op 2 weeks ago and they were doing blood work so I asked them to pull a few extra vials for my GP at the same time, who wanted to test me for high BP (which I...

You could have something there ellagy :-D - but i'm a one man gal and I don't intend to look elsewhere ever - but I am beginning to think insecurity might play a part.

I'm so pleased with myself - I've had my lowest reading so far of 6.3 this evening and previously my lowest reading have been 6.8 and 6.9 which were my first tests of the day (first thing in the morning before eating anything). My 6.3 was after a day of eating :-) I feel like things are...

hahaha good point bulkbiker...I was worrying about that too. Can I ask you another question aside from this one please? You mention no more meds after 3 weeks of Metformin hell...and when I see the nurse they are talking about putting me on this stuff as well as statins. I'm going to insist on a...

I am not entirely convinced that they shouldn't have a quick clean off first ... there has got to be bacteria growing afterwards?! Still...it's not hurt either of you so far - so I can breathe a little easier knowing I've used it twice after applying TCP. Thanks everyone - that really helps. LOL :-D

@AndBreathe - yes that's what I was doing. Good point you make and very true as well. But I do like the earlier suggestion of putting it in the bottle for the testing strips - and then if I had a project where I needed to cut paper (ideal for art projects cutting around paper - I tried it the...

When you all reuse the lancets do you clean them off at all?

Hip hop. Afterlife or no afterlife?

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Thanks Julie - that's far more sensible - I'll do that :-)

I'm erring towards God on the basis that I have always sat on the fence but now because I feel like I'm going to have a short life I want to play safe and try to get my head around Him. It's a work in progress as you can see. I don't believe what most people tell me and I usually have to see it...

Creative heathens everywhere, sanctimonious twaddle! kayak

and I also poke the needle into the lid of the next lancet so no-one can catch themselves on it if they put their hands into the bin, but should I be throwing it away in my general household waste or should I be using a more safe way of disposing? I've not had my 1st meeting yet with my Diabetic...

I've read that many people reuse their lancets and although it seems to me to be a bad idea my lancets didn't turn up last week so I cleaned off my needle today with tcp and used it twice as I only have 1 left. How many people here reuse their lancets out of interest?

Thank you Shar67 - great explanation :-D much appreciated xx