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David104844

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Hi, when I take a reading from one finger, is is different if I take another immediately after from another finger, for example, just taken reading from right finger at 13.5 and on left finger it is 14.8, this happened the other day too with a 7.9 reading and on other finger 10.6 reading, would this mean the machine is faulty or should I just be taking a reading from one hand only, sorry its a bit of a daft question but new to this and wondering why this would happen. I only found this happened because my children wanted a go at doing the blood sugars and it surprised me that I had had two diffrent readings.
 
Sometimes it can be contamination on your skin that can affect the reading.I think we have all done this and found different readings!The meters are not pin point accurate so fluctuations in readings are not uncommon.
 
Hi, I was only diagnosed last week, so been taking readings 7 times daily , they have fluctuated between 20.04 and 6.3, have only been taking medications metformin and simvastain since last week, I go back on Friday but with each reading I have made a note of what foods I have eaten, I was having for breakfast a small bowl of malted wheat cereal with semi skimmed milk, no sugar but also a glass of fresh orange juice, the reading were high when I had the fresh orange at 20.04 but with the cereal and diet coke instead the reading came to 13.03, for lunch I will have a brown bread sandwich 2 slices with flora light, ham and tomato and a yoghurt, the readings are between 17.00 and 9.08 but this depends if I have been busy round the house, for the evening meal it is usually a stew of some kind and varies between 19.4 and 10.03, this again depends if I have managed to burn energy off, I am disabled so it is difficult to burn energy off if I'm not feeling well. When I was originally diagnosed on the 26th of November the reading was almost 30.00, so I feel with the new diest also the medication it is coming down, I am seeing a difference in the readings, I am able to pinpoint the reason if it is reaching a higher figure, and the side effects are reduced i.e no more blurry vision, not thirsty and not as tired. I am hoping when I go back on Friday because I haven't reached the 30.00 figure and managed to keep the readings much lower that they keep me on tablets rather than injections of insulin.
 
Hehehe, i done some research on this, all in the aid of being very bored one night :lol:
I used different meters ( 3 ), the same meters, same and different fingers, within seconds of each other for about an hour. Most were different by an average of 1.9 mmol, some upto 4 mmol and the overall result was very sore fingers :shock:
 
Make sure you wash your fingers, also sometimes squeezing to get a drop out may express more interstitial fluid, both factors on top of the general level of meter variance may affect readings.

Your numbers are still pretty high, try doing this for a while

http://www.alt-support-diabetes.org/NewlyDiagnosed.htm

http://loraldiabetes.blogspot.com/2006/10/d-day.html

it will take time to get them down as you are still spending a lot of time at the level of "glucose toxicity", but by paying close attention to avoiding things that spike your BG you will hopefully break through this into more reasonable numbers.
 
Any reading above 7 is showing that your micro blood vessels are at risk of damage.
Metformin doesn't lower blood sugar by much, only about 1 - 2 mmol
NICE protocol for treating newly diagnosed T2, begins with 3 months lifesyle changee, then Metformin, gradually increasing the dose to a maximum of 3 x 850 mg per day and then adding pioglitazone or Gliclazide. Going straight to insulin isn't in there, although I know it happens.
Have you tried reducing your carbs? It's well worth a try. Numbers like you quote are high.
 
In this part of the woods the thinking is that they hit you early with medication. In my case 2*500 Metformin. Result: down bg from around 15 to 7 within a few weeks plus some weight loss; about 7 lbs. First Hba1c after that below 7.

Its lifestyle. Smaller portions, no biscuits, cake, chocolates, sweets; less rice pasta potatoes. Not really a problem - will power. If its not lifestyle, the relatively small changes do make a big difference - well they did for me. It might just be the application of common sense in eating what you need rather than what you can afford to feel happy on.
 
hanadr said:
Any reading above 7 is showing that your micro blood vessels are at risk of damage.
Metformin doesn't lower blood sugar by much, only about 1 - 2 mmol
NICE protocol for treating newly diagnosed T2, begins with 3 months lifesyle changee, then Metformin, gradually increasing the dose to a maximum of 3 x 850 mg per day and then adding pioglitazone or Gliclazide. Going straight to insulin isn't in there, although I know it happens.
Have you tried reducing your carbs? It's well worth a try. Numbers like you quote are high.
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Some authorities in the States will use insulin initially and temporarily to break out of glucose toxicity. This is pretty much guaranteed to work but one problem with the use of high initial levels of meds is when the patient gets better too quick and soon becomes overmedicated.

A rare problem may be retinal damage (usually reversible but frightening) from a too rapid drop in BG
 
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