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<blockquote data-quote="JohnnyBaker87" data-source="post: 1528068" data-attributes="member: 296408"><p>My Nurse Practitioner at my health centre recently expressed her concern for a number of times I was testing my blood glucose. She said that when on diabetes treatment of an incretin mimetic like Lixisenatide, which I'm on, it's not essential to test blood glucose about 5 times a day (which I'd been doing it or more) but once a week. She said the only three factors for regular testing of blood glucose, to avoid hypoglycaemia, is:-</p><p></p><p>* When the patient is on insulin</p><p>* When the patient drives a motor car</p><p>* When the patient is on an anti-hyperglycemic medication called Gliclazide which can cause hypoglycaemia.</p><p></p><p>So, we've agreed I only test my blood glucose once a week every Tuesday morning before breakfast.</p><p></p><p>My blood glucose reading before seeing the Nurse Practitioner who expressed concern for the cost of all the test strips I've had over the past month was 5.4 millimoles per litre after eating my lamb doner kebab.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="JohnnyBaker87, post: 1528068, member: 296408"] My Nurse Practitioner at my health centre recently expressed her concern for a number of times I was testing my blood glucose. She said that when on diabetes treatment of an incretin mimetic like Lixisenatide, which I'm on, it's not essential to test blood glucose about 5 times a day (which I'd been doing it or more) but once a week. She said the only three factors for regular testing of blood glucose, to avoid hypoglycaemia, is:- * When the patient is on insulin * When the patient drives a motor car * When the patient is on an anti-hyperglycemic medication called Gliclazide which can cause hypoglycaemia. So, we've agreed I only test my blood glucose once a week every Tuesday morning before breakfast. My blood glucose reading before seeing the Nurse Practitioner who expressed concern for the cost of all the test strips I've had over the past month was 5.4 millimoles per litre after eating my lamb doner kebab. [/QUOTE]
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