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<blockquote data-quote="Brunneria" data-source="post: 2148156" data-attributes="member: 41816"><p>Yes.</p><p>It is very easy to forget how confusing and contradictory and downright intimidating it is when you first start testing.</p><p></p><p>We get thread after thread here on the forum with people who have got a glucometer, either from their surgery, or self funded, who post to ask 'when should I test?' and 'what are normal blood glucose levels?' and 'what does this reading mean?'</p><p></p><p>These are all perfectly reasonable questions, but unless the healthcare team has provided this info, they have to fall back on forums like this one for the answers, or scour the internet for reliable information. Often they are told to take their FBG with no explanation of why or what it means.</p><p></p><p>Very often that patient has been told to eat Weetabix for breakfast and carbs with every meal. So of course their readings are high, and they lack the knowledge to appreciate that levels rise and fall throughout the day, according to what we eat. Numerous posters have thought that their bg stays steady, and that their FBG reading is representative of the whole day. No one has told them differently - until they get here.</p><p></p><p>So unless the central message to T2s from the medical profession is that lower carb levels => lower blood glucose AND the healthcare professional is fully on board with it, and able to explain clearly to the patient when/how/why to test, handing out glucometers will not benefit the patient. Not everyone is as proactive as members of this forum, or has internet access, or is even interested in investigating the science. (I am thinking of 3 family members as I type. One won't test EVER because it will hurt. One has been shown how to test by myself multiple times, and doesn't do it because he 'forgets' to test before meals and then 'there is no point in testing after'. And I gave the third a test kit but it has never been used.)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Brunneria, post: 2148156, member: 41816"] Yes. It is very easy to forget how confusing and contradictory and downright intimidating it is when you first start testing. We get thread after thread here on the forum with people who have got a glucometer, either from their surgery, or self funded, who post to ask 'when should I test?' and 'what are normal blood glucose levels?' and 'what does this reading mean?' These are all perfectly reasonable questions, but unless the healthcare team has provided this info, they have to fall back on forums like this one for the answers, or scour the internet for reliable information. Often they are told to take their FBG with no explanation of why or what it means. Very often that patient has been told to eat Weetabix for breakfast and carbs with every meal. So of course their readings are high, and they lack the knowledge to appreciate that levels rise and fall throughout the day, according to what we eat. Numerous posters have thought that their bg stays steady, and that their FBG reading is representative of the whole day. No one has told them differently - until they get here. So unless the central message to T2s from the medical profession is that lower carb levels => lower blood glucose AND the healthcare professional is fully on board with it, and able to explain clearly to the patient when/how/why to test, handing out glucometers will not benefit the patient. Not everyone is as proactive as members of this forum, or has internet access, or is even interested in investigating the science. (I am thinking of 3 family members as I type. One won't test EVER because it will hurt. One has been shown how to test by myself multiple times, and doesn't do it because he 'forgets' to test before meals and then 'there is no point in testing after'. And I gave the third a test kit but it has never been used.) [/QUOTE]
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