blood glucose monitoring diary / printout

Welcome to the forum,Kasabian (any relation to the pop star?)

What kind of monitor do you have? I use One Touch and you can download their software.Check your monitor instruction booklet for a website.There is also one you can download to a mobile.(There is a link to that somewhere on the forum)

Knowledge is the key to control

Hi Kasabian,

Your monitor is made by Lifescan, which is part of the US drug conglomerate Johnson & Johnson. Here is a link to their website
http://www.lifescaneurope.com/uk/

in my experience they absolutely love it as it shows you are taking this thing seriously!

If you have a spreadsheet (excel, lotus or whatever) you can easily key in the readings to create a timeseries. If you monitor on a fixed time basis you can also key in the results according to the stream and plot the information to show the relationship between each stream. It is also informative to plot the trend lines which indicate how you are performing against your chosen benchmark.

I test twice a day, pre-breakfast and pre-eveing meal. I have set the levels in the graph to show the range between 4 and 6 which is the target I wish to achieve, I have linear marks at 6.5 and 7, the upper levels that personally I do not wish to exceed. I plot the morning and evening readings separately and as a single series together with the daily average and the trend *******ysis for each data stream.

If nothing else its good for the morale and lets you see what is happening over time rather than just looking at numbers in a diary. It also helps you focus on what has been eaten in the period before the test is taken. I am now down below 6 for both daily readings only 7 months since the nasty diagnosis. Saw the Doc this afternoon and she is well pleased - so am I, but its hard work.

Does anyone know where I can find / buy a diary which I can <i>write</i> the records in? I have One Touch Ultra 2, which does not include a record diary, and the software but my printer never works so I would be unable to take a printout to the diabetes nurse or doctor.

thanks

david

Thanks for the quick reply. I phoned them and they are sending me some record books.

Thanks

david

Hi Kasaiban.
If you have a Accu-Chek meter there free from there web site, also a computer program to download the info from your machine to your computer, also all the equipment you need to do this is free.
Whitevanman.

Hi, Folks
I read the recent contribution from Bauchaille (29.01.08) with interest since he/she is doing just what I have been doing for the past two and a half years, since I was diagnosed Type II.
I test every third day and record both my BG data and also my BMI values. The two things that are particularly important to me are the trends in both my BG and, since I am over weight, my BMI but also to know (and record) why a particular reading is at bit or a lot higher than expected. It is pretty soul destroying to be doing all the right things and find that the BG has suddenly shot up. If you know that yesterday you had rather more white bread than normal and the next BG and BMI are high, it’s not so bad and you are less likely to become depressed.
Both my doctor and diabetic nurse have always shown great interest in my recorded data. Initially I was prescribed diet control and metformin, which combination had a moderate effect on my BG but when Gliclazide was added to the prescription the effect was quite dramatic, was clearly shown on the data-plot.
I would urge anyone who has a personal computer and a working knowledge of spreadsheets to build their own system. Not only does it keep your record in the way that is most useful to you, but also increases the interest and awareness of cause and effect.
Best wishes to all.

What i done was logged my results for a week then transfered them into excel and propagated a line gragh to see what on average my BG was doing through out the day. :idea: