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Spiral

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I started testing last Thursday.

However, I'm a bit unclear about the best time to test to make best use of my very precious and mostly self-funded test strips. I am testing on waking, 1hour and 2 hours after food, and before going to bed. I have also tested after exercise :shock: :D , there is motivation to exercise regularly.

Now I'm back at work, it is sometimes difficult to keep to a testing schedule. I try to test in private and this appears to be the loo :? unless i'm out of the office, in which case I do it in the car. My plans to test are affected by incoming phone calls and meetings :?

Any advice as to how I make my testing meaningful and cost effective?
 
Hi spiral,
I test when i wake up, 2 hours after evening meal!
After i have exercised or been out walking alot, If i feel the signs of hypo shaking etc!
And a hour before bed!
Hope this helps a little
Sandy
 
My usual, also with self funded strips, is once a day at random times, but in the heat, I had to use several to getme back onto my (around 5) target. I dropped to 3.1 on one day. Didn't feel at all well, but was not impaired functionally. So had a bit of shortbread and waited.
 
http://loraldiabetes.blogspot.com/2007/ ... udget.html

this might help

My FBG is seldom out of range, mine tends to peak at around 1 hour postprandial and the 2 hour tests don't tell me much. Your best bet is to test as intensively as you can afford at first until you have worked out your specific pattern, then you can limit your tests to the times that provide most data. You could pick one meal each day and do the preprandial and 1 and 2 hour post, then do the FBG and inter-meal tests another day etc.

My habit nowadays is not to bother testing routinely, unless I am doing or eating something unusual, then every couple of weeks I run a whole day to check for long term changes. But then I've been doing this for about five years now and have become disgustingly predictable. There's no way I would be able to do this if it weren't for the initial intensive testing, and learning from the results.
 
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