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<blockquote data-quote="SallyEzra" data-source="post: 1796989" data-attributes="member: 473136"><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Hi Al60733,</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">It's great to see you are being so proactive in trying to get yourself sorted out with blood sugars, food diaries etc. Each time in my life I have decided to give my T1 diabetes some extra focus, it has usually paid off. So hope it is the start of a useful new chapter for you too.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">As <span style="color: #ff0000">[USER=427646]@Barrowbakers[/USER] </span><span style="color: #000000">has already mentioned, the Accu-Chek Mobile blood sugar meters are really quite good to take your blood sugar with one hand. I have been perfecting it myself in the last couple of years whilst running after a toddler & dealing with him with one arm & then my blood sugar with my other hand (I have been getting a lot of hypos so have needed to stick close to it). The really good thing about the Accu-Chek Mobile is that there are no test sticks to fiddle about with, so with one free hand I find I can hold the meter, click on the pricker, which is attached to the meter, get the droplet of blood & then take my finger to the bottom of the meter which absorbs the droplet of blood.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #000000"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #000000">I also use a Freestyle Libre device most of the time now, so as others have said, that would be really convenient & easy for you to continually scan the sensor on your arm, so you can get blood sugar readings easily. I don't know however about how to get these funded by the NHS & so I just buy them myself, but find it really worthwhile. Equally however, if you are about to make big changes in how you manage your diabetes, then the Freestyle Libre will be an excellent tracker of all the changes & good work you are doing, as it records your blood sugar throughout the day & gives you a profile, so you can see exactly what is happening & when.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #000000"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #000000">Good luck.</span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SallyEzra, post: 1796989, member: 473136"] [FONT=Arial]Hi Al60733, It's great to see you are being so proactive in trying to get yourself sorted out with blood sugars, food diaries etc. Each time in my life I have decided to give my T1 diabetes some extra focus, it has usually paid off. So hope it is the start of a useful new chapter for you too. As [COLOR=#ff0000][USER=427646]@Barrowbakers[/USER] [/COLOR][COLOR=#000000]has already mentioned, the Accu-Chek Mobile blood sugar meters are really quite good to take your blood sugar with one hand. I have been perfecting it myself in the last couple of years whilst running after a toddler & dealing with him with one arm & then my blood sugar with my other hand (I have been getting a lot of hypos so have needed to stick close to it). The really good thing about the Accu-Chek Mobile is that there are no test sticks to fiddle about with, so with one free hand I find I can hold the meter, click on the pricker, which is attached to the meter, get the droplet of blood & then take my finger to the bottom of the meter which absorbs the droplet of blood. I also use a Freestyle Libre device most of the time now, so as others have said, that would be really convenient & easy for you to continually scan the sensor on your arm, so you can get blood sugar readings easily. I don't know however about how to get these funded by the NHS & so I just buy them myself, but find it really worthwhile. Equally however, if you are about to make big changes in how you manage your diabetes, then the Freestyle Libre will be an excellent tracker of all the changes & good work you are doing, as it records your blood sugar throughout the day & gives you a profile, so you can see exactly what is happening & when. Good luck.[/COLOR][/FONT] [/QUOTE]
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