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To test or not

Thank you @Moggely, I do understand. And whereas I can put in a correction dose of insulin to deal with a highish BSL you will have less control of what you can do right away. They say that necessity is the mother of invention, so I am hoping for a less painful way of measuring BSLs. At some point you may find bsls monitoring is needed for you but may the 'evil' day be far away.
I put up a saying in Diabetes R Us: My diabetes is like a spelling test: Full of corrections.
 
I will certainly continue to measure but just giving my mind rest as it's always on numbers for a short time. I saw your.."
My diabetes is like a spelling test: Full of corrections". Truer word has never been spoken. lol.
 
Testing the blood is all part of the learning process - I am sure that when starting to drive a car everyone is looking down at the speedometer quite regularly, but now I've been driving for decades if I glance at the speedo it is just as a check when slowing down after being on the motorway and it usually shows near enough 30 MPH
It is exactly the same with my controlling blood glucose. Now I have got the hang of it, if I do test it is about right.
The problems can be that for some people not so lucky as myself, low carb foods don't do the trick, and for others the evidence that a meal has spiked their BG is not acted upon.
I had just 80 days between diagnosis and my first Hba1c test, but I dropped from 91 to 47 in that time, by testing and acting on what I saw. I was already low carbing, so it was fine tuning, discovering that legumes are best avoided for instance.
 
Congratulations, admire your style of control and its working for you, and you have a sensible approach to the whole situation.
Sorry to hear your fingers, a little tip, I have one, why not google and see Genteel, finger prick tester, you can test on fingers, palm hands, arm, top of knee it provides with 6 different gradings for different parts of the body, no pain, just a click as its a suction technique, and biggest bonus to help you overall no sore fingers, and happy fingers all the time...May be of help to you.
 
Thank you! I use an Accu chek multiclix at the moment but many thanks for the recommendation! Much appreciated
 
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