It's to test your iron levels - and I agree self testing for BG is much less painfulNot impressed. (Much better than someone else doing a pin prick to me to test for who knows what every time I donated blood)
It's to test your iron levels - and I agree self testing for BG is much less painfulNot impressed. (Much better than someone else doing a pin prick to me to test for who knows what every time I donated blood)
Too bad they didn't check glucose. Would have sped up my diagnosis.It's to test your iron levels - and I agree self testing for BG is much less painful
oops just realised you wanted one word:I was diagnosed in 1978 and used a little test tube to check urine for sugar. In 1982 I was sent home from a clinic appointment with BM strips, lancets and the address of where I could buy the finger-pricking device for those lancets (it cost £5). I was told to start testing, as my insulin had been changed and there were lots of hypos, so I felt I couldn't wait a week for the device to arrive.
The first time I tested, I washed and dried my hands, prepared the strip (we had to half them) and twisted off the cap of the lancet . I breathed in and pulled back the lancet, ready to prick my finger and then realised I couldn't do it. I asked my brother to prick my finger instead, which he gladly did. When the device arrived it was so much easier, it wasn't a problem.
IhateneedlesandwouldrathernotdothisbutIneedtososhuteyestightthinkofEnglandandjustbloomingDOIT!
One word version - FAINT
Funny side of the story- I am not good with blood and needles, so asked Hubby to do the first one for me...got the blood and hadn't set the meter up properly so had to start again - but by then I felt faint, everything went bright and I just laid on the floor til it passed...and burnt my Sons pizza in the meantime but within a few attempts I mastered it and am a pro now
Men are more sensitive. I know this because my wife had an amniocentesis and was very blasé about it. She was however a bit put out when the nurses abandoned her to look after me feeling faint..It didn't bother me, I just did it (using a Fastclix) BUT when I tested Mr. Blue it was a different matter. He yelled a lot, and that was before he had pressed the top of the pen. Then when he did press it he was very brave and only yelled a bit.