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<blockquote data-quote="Robbity" data-source="post: 2129228" data-attributes="member: 93179"><p>The most useful times to test are immediately before you start each meal to get a base line figure, and (in general) two hours after this test, which will give you a post meal figure to see how what you've just eaten affects your glucose levels. If you also keep a diary of what you eat, you should start to see patterns emerging which will help in identifying both OK foods and those best avoided as they raise your glucose too much. The smaller difference you see between the two tests, the better, but try to aim for a maximum difference of two points. The other test that is useful to do, but which you'll have less control over initially as it's determined by what your liver "thinks" you need in the way of glucose to provide fuel to get you started in the morning, is a fasting test done soon after you wake up. Have look at figures <a href="https://www.diabetes.co.uk/diabetes_care/blood-sugar-level-ranges.html" target="_blank"><strong>here</strong></a> on our main Diabetes.co.uk site to see target glucose levels to aim for.</p><p></p><p>If you only have access to a limited supply of test strips, my personal preference would be to choose different days to test before and after every meal, but other people may have suggestions for alternative strategies. </p><p></p><p>There are a few meters available that have cheap test strips, so it 's possibly worth considering a change to one of these, and [USER=400972]@Rachox[/USER] can give you details for them.</p><p></p><p>(I never had a meter for the first couple of months, but managed to reduce my glucose levels from 62 to 47 purely by being very strict and cutting right down on all obviously high sugar and high starch foods, but I was much more confident when I could actually <strong>see</strong> whether I was managing to control things.)</p><p></p><p>Robbity</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Robbity, post: 2129228, member: 93179"] The most useful times to test are immediately before you start each meal to get a base line figure, and (in general) two hours after this test, which will give you a post meal figure to see how what you've just eaten affects your glucose levels. If you also keep a diary of what you eat, you should start to see patterns emerging which will help in identifying both OK foods and those best avoided as they raise your glucose too much. The smaller difference you see between the two tests, the better, but try to aim for a maximum difference of two points. The other test that is useful to do, but which you'll have less control over initially as it's determined by what your liver "thinks" you need in the way of glucose to provide fuel to get you started in the morning, is a fasting test done soon after you wake up. Have look at figures [URL='https://www.diabetes.co.uk/diabetes_care/blood-sugar-level-ranges.html'][B]here[/B][/URL] on our main Diabetes.co.uk site to see target glucose levels to aim for. If you only have access to a limited supply of test strips, my personal preference would be to choose different days to test before and after every meal, but other people may have suggestions for alternative strategies. There are a few meters available that have cheap test strips, so it 's possibly worth considering a change to one of these, and [USER=400972]@Rachox[/USER] can give you details for them. (I never had a meter for the first couple of months, but managed to reduce my glucose levels from 62 to 47 purely by being very strict and cutting right down on all obviously high sugar and high starch foods, but I was much more confident when I could actually [B]see[/B] whether I was managing to control things.) Robbity [/QUOTE]
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