wordangel
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- Type of diabetes
- Type 2
- Treatment type
- Tablets (oral)
A little bit flummoxed having had hard time and slept in such a strange pattern. hard to know what's going on since my readings are good. I had a notice of a new message and i can't find it... but one of you told me my a1c was not prediabetic but diabetic and i wondered if i had said it right. and we have talked about the diane kress book. everybody is calling me newly diagnosed and it is 8 months. it feels new but is that really what you would call new?
so ijust reched my a1c records and i was wrong. so i am corrreectingi it. in december it was 8.8. in may it was 6.4. and then i started eating badly again but not as badly... but started to spike when i tested more.
i never followed the kress book completely. i used it as a guide and still got that much change. i think that s a good change??? is it?
now the other things is in the topic of alternate testing sites i had a message i can no longer find from one of you who tested on her own abdomen trying to tell me how to do it and she couldn't get the sample and i did the same and also failed, but it was truly painless and didn't bruise as much as my early awful learning curve learning on the thigh. i said here that a woman on youtube was demonstrating and pricking her abdomen 5 times. it was unclear on the audio and i found an article on alternative testing that cleared up that error for me.
what she actually did i assume was called pumping. leaving the lancet in place but the lancet has already retracted and the technique is to pump the barrel without moving from the exact sight to bring the blood closer instead of trying to pinch the sample out. there is a big difference and i am almost never faili. here is a link to the article. i think there are 3 pp and it might be on any one of them. it has internal clickable links.
http://www.diabetesselfmanagement.com/managing-diabetes/blood-glucose-management/alternate-site-testing-2/
so ijust reched my a1c records and i was wrong. so i am corrreectingi it. in december it was 8.8. in may it was 6.4. and then i started eating badly again but not as badly... but started to spike when i tested more.
i never followed the kress book completely. i used it as a guide and still got that much change. i think that s a good change??? is it?
now the other things is in the topic of alternate testing sites i had a message i can no longer find from one of you who tested on her own abdomen trying to tell me how to do it and she couldn't get the sample and i did the same and also failed, but it was truly painless and didn't bruise as much as my early awful learning curve learning on the thigh. i said here that a woman on youtube was demonstrating and pricking her abdomen 5 times. it was unclear on the audio and i found an article on alternative testing that cleared up that error for me.
what she actually did i assume was called pumping. leaving the lancet in place but the lancet has already retracted and the technique is to pump the barrel without moving from the exact sight to bring the blood closer instead of trying to pinch the sample out. there is a big difference and i am almost never faili. here is a link to the article. i think there are 3 pp and it might be on any one of them. it has internal clickable links.
http://www.diabetesselfmanagement.com/managing-diabetes/blood-glucose-management/alternate-site-testing-2/