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<blockquote data-quote="Scott-C" data-source="post: 1979126" data-attributes="member: 374531"><p>You can be reasonably confident that your bg was generally in the 6 to 7 range. </p><p></p><p>For practical purposes, that is good enough.</p><p></p><p>I'm T1, so I have to inject insulin several times a day to not die, meter readings help me with clinical decisions about dose amounts, so you might think the accuracy matters to me.</p><p></p><p>It does, but not that much. If I read at 6 and then 7 the bolus amount would be about the same.</p><p></p><p>If I'm running at around 5, there's about 1 gram of glucose per litre of blood in me. The test strip is sucking up a tiny, tiny part of a litre, absolutely minute parts of glucose. It's amazing that bg meters get as close as they do.</p><p></p><p>All I'm interested in is whether I'm in a broad range - sub-4 is bad, 4 to 7 is good, above 9 is bad.</p><p></p><p>Even though I know meters are not that accurate, I know that they are close enough to indicate which general range I'm in, and that's good enough.</p><p></p><p>T2s expect too much from meters. They indicate broad ranges. The decimal points don't matter. When T2s attach some significance to a reading being 6.2 one day and 6.5 the next, we just kinda roll our eyes. Any number between 5 and 7 is more or less the same.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Scott-C, post: 1979126, member: 374531"] You can be reasonably confident that your bg was generally in the 6 to 7 range. For practical purposes, that is good enough. I'm T1, so I have to inject insulin several times a day to not die, meter readings help me with clinical decisions about dose amounts, so you might think the accuracy matters to me. It does, but not that much. If I read at 6 and then 7 the bolus amount would be about the same. If I'm running at around 5, there's about 1 gram of glucose per litre of blood in me. The test strip is sucking up a tiny, tiny part of a litre, absolutely minute parts of glucose. It's amazing that bg meters get as close as they do. All I'm interested in is whether I'm in a broad range - sub-4 is bad, 4 to 7 is good, above 9 is bad. Even though I know meters are not that accurate, I know that they are close enough to indicate which general range I'm in, and that's good enough. T2s expect too much from meters. They indicate broad ranges. The decimal points don't matter. When T2s attach some significance to a reading being 6.2 one day and 6.5 the next, we just kinda roll our eyes. Any number between 5 and 7 is more or less the same. [/QUOTE]
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