Re: damage from lows?/testing strips

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> : My endo dr has told me several conflicting things about when he

> wants me to take my blood sugars during the day. It started out 8x/day,

> when I got up, 2 hrs after breakfast, before lunch, 2 hrs after lunch,

> before dinner, 2 hrs after dinner and when I went to bed. Then it

went to

> waking up, 2 hrs after each meal and before bed. now he says

2x/day but I

> can do it 3 if I want to. I have been more or less doing 4 because

I want

> to see how what I am eating is affecting my after eating sugar levels.

Did he change the amount because he read your results and saw what was

going on and figured he knew how to proceed with treatment or what?

Usually after taking all those readings they look thru them. If you

want to continue testing more often you can.

>

> One of the people on his team said she had no idea how people in general

> take their blood sugar so often because the ins cos won't pay for

the test

> strips.

That's really why a lot of them tell you to stop testing so often but

if your insurance company was already paying for that amount then you

can keep doing so.

>

> I really want to understand the interaction of the specific foods I

eat with

> my sugar levels especially since now the endo dr says I don't need

to be on

> med.

You are right on that. It is the way I discovered the most

information and was able to change my way of eating and exercise

levels. It also helped me discover that some symptoms I thought were

lows really weren't. It was actually that I went high and had a huge

drop and my body thought it was too low. In the past I would have

just eaten more thinking I was hypo when in reality I went back up too

high again. So you see I was never able to control my numbers that

way by guessing. Just tell them you want to still try out some new

foods and see about exercise and how it affects you. They really can't

deny writing the prescription if your insurance indeed will pay for

it. The original amount of testing was the best way unless of course

you already have all the info you need to keep your numbers level.