sugarless sue said:
Now the excuse is OCD, before it was too much testing causes stress, the worst one I've heard was testing too much causes callouses and when you go blind you wont be able to use braille !! :evil:
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That was me who got told that, when very newly diagnosed with type 1, by a paramedic (not my Dr or diabetes team thank God). And I believed it, too, and repeated it once on this forum a while ago, until at some point it dawned on me that my fingers haven't got the slightest sign of callouses... nothing! I used to play the guitar - now
those were callouses, I had grooves in my fingertips and the upper tips were hard as rock, when I tapped my fingers on the table it sounded like proper drums. I know a callous on my finger when I see one, and testing doesn't do it! Who knows where he got that from.
Having said that, he wasn't actually advising me to stop testing, but to do it on the sides of the fingers, so that I could still read braille even with these supposed callouses... and even though it's clearly rubbish in hindsight, I'm grateful because doing it on the sides is better for me and I've stuck to it. Doing it in the middle means I sometimes hit the bone - it reverberates through my finger and is a pretty hideous sensation :evil: