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Different Reading on Each Hand

Amal Sayed

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Location
Saudi Arabia
Type of diabetes
Type 2
Treatment type
Tablets (oral)
Hello, I am a type 2 diabetic, I am on hypoglycemic medications, however, as I got pregnant recently I switched to insulin, I do that every time I get pregnant, my problem is that now I noticed a 10 points difference between my two hands (I use mg/dl measurements ) and in my left hand I find that is also higher by 10 points, so if my blood sugar is 118 on my right hand, it is 128 on my left hand. Now that is not a problem often times, but in pregnancy I have a very short range for my numbers. what should I do, how do I base my insulin intake at this point? should I consider the higher readings or the lower reading?


thanks,
 
Hello Amal
10mg/dl converted to the units we use in the UK is just 0.6mmol/l, that is well within the +/-15% level of accuracy that the meters are manufactured to. It is such a small difference that you really can consider them to be the same reading.
You could take two readings from the same spot of blood and have a similar discrepancy, the plus or minus 15% applies to every strip you use.
Occasionally the meters can give wildly inaccurate readings because of a faulty strip, or maybe something on your fingers that contaminates the test.
But unless your meter gives a result that is way outside the range you were expecting, there is not much point repeating the test because as I said, the second one could vary by 15% either way.
Hope this helps
https://www.diabetes.co.uk/blood-glucose-meters/blood-glucose-meter-accuracy.html
https://www.diabetes.co.uk/blood-sugar-converter.html
 
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