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A great solution for you would be the Genteel lancing device. It generates a vacuum to draw the blood drop out and it is also suitable for other sites and for example pricking from your palm gives the same reading as fingers as it shares the same blood supply. Best of all it's almost always pain...

Absolutely its a personal choice. The thing is with my Genteel device it's not painful because I only need to make a very tiny and shallow prick and the vacuum it generates pulls up a neat drop.

Mine is the Genteel. It's a wonderful painless pricker and not restricted to finger pricking only and can prick from many places on my body. I usually prick on my palms

So important to wash hands properly. Below is an abstract from a definitive article published by Dutch researchers in 2011. Diabetes Care. 2011 Mar;34(3):556-60. doi: 10.2337/dc10-1694. Epub 2011 Feb 2. Self-monitoring of blood glucose: the use of the first or the second drop of blood...

Hi Andy I would recommend that if you intend to measure yourself only once a day you should do this before taking your dog for a walk AND before breakfast. The reason for this is that even moderate exercise requires your muscles to have Glucose and your body will generate this and your levels...

Nothing wrong with them but they don't compare to the Genteel. Genteel is much more painless and also perfectly suited to alternative site testing.

There is a perfect and inexpensive way to save your fingertips. Your fingers will heal up in days and you will get your sensation back. The Genteel gentle lancing device is perfect for this.

There's more to it than that. Capillary BG readings are still the accepted "gold standard" for measuring blood glucose. Did you ensure to take the proper precautions before measuring yourself? This means washing your fingers with soap and water and not wiping with an alcohol swab, milking the...

It infuriates me and is quite scary to see how an excellent product like the Hypoband can be "trashed" by people who do not know how use it according to it's intended use, It is meant to be for indoor use only and is non water resistant. The Hypoband watch is an intelligent Bluetooth interface...

Depending on which country you are in, you may be able to buy yourself the GlucoTrack. It's completely non invasive and will allow you to readily monitor yourself any number of times per day and consequently learn what amounts of food intake you can tolerate and what the effects are of exercise...

If you go into the Freesyle Libre and its capabilities you will discover that it is really designed more for Type 1's rather than Type 2's. And remember it also includes a blood glucose meter because you cannot rely on it entirely and still need to prick yourself if in doubt. Its nevertheless a...

Its not only about fasting but about knowing and understanding your body.. You need to get to know and understand more about the effect of the size of your meals, the carb content and the benefit of exercise in making yourself more receptive to the insulin that you are still producing. You need...