Posted by Dinah on February 6, 2007, at 19:00:12
Yesterday I did a rare thing and took my fasting blood sugar. My last quarterly results were fine, 6.5, so I haven't been worried. To my surprise the results were rather high, and I started rethinking my thirstiness lately and remembered that it's time for my next quarterly test so I went and had my blood drawn.
This morning it was 172 fasting, and I was a bit concerned that my meter might be off. So I called my doctor's office to see if maybe I could come in, they could do a test, and I could do one, and see if my meter's ok. But they want to wait to see if it's in line with the blood test results. I should know tomorrow or so.
But the darndest thing was that I checked the results against a meter that I don't use anymore, and the results were much lower on that one. So I tested both with control solution, and both were fine. Then I retested myself, and not only were they still different from each other, but there was over a ten point difference from the results of a few minutes earlier.
Are these things any good at all? Surely my blood sugar doesn't rise and fall in minutes. And if it does, what good are tests anyway? And if the margin for error is that wide, what good are tests.
I'm completely fed up. Both brands are models that claim to be fool proof, and let you know if you don't have the right amount of blood or have done something wrong.
poster:Dinah
thread:730568
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