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About Alternate-site Testing
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About Alternate-site Testing


If you're like many people with diabetes who are bothered by the pain of blood glucose testing, you may be looking for alternate test sites that could be less painful than your fingertips. But don't stop testing altogether! Researc ...
Activity and Blood Glucose Monitoring
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Activity and Blood Glucose Monitoring


For people with diabetes, being physically active helps insulin work more efficiently and generally lowers blood glucose levels. But exercise has additional—and essential—health benefits: ...
Avoiding Low Blood Glucose Levels During Exercise
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Avoiding Low Blood Glucose Levels During Exercise


Exercise, along with diet and medication, is key to lowering your blood glucose levels. But what happens if, after starting an exercise program, you think that your blood glucose levels are dropping too low (hypoglycemia)? What shoul ...
Coping and Blood Glucose Monitoring
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Coping and Blood Glucose Monitoring


Dealing with a chronic illness, on top of daily responsibilities and life events, can be challenging. People with diabetes are twice as likely to experience depression, and stress - in any form - can make it difficult to stay in your ...
Getting Smart About Blood Glucose Testing
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Getting Smart About Blood Glucose Testing


When it comes to diabetes, the maxim "knowledge is power" has never been truer. Yet as a physician, I'm surprised by the number of people who aren't adequately trained to use this important diabetes management tool. ...
Good Control
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Good Control


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How Testing Can Help You Make the Most of Your Meds
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How Testing Can Help You Make the Most of Your Meds


Living with diabetes means having high blood glucose results from time to time. There are several causes for this, including: ...
How to Overcome Obstacles to Checking Your Blood Sugar
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How to Overcome Obstacles to Checking Your Blood Sugar


Most likely your doctor has asked you to test your blood glucose daily or perhaps just a few times a week. You've given it thought, even bought the meter and strips—but there it sits on the bathroom shelf. Whether you are new to d ...
Learning to Trust Your Meter
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Learning to Trust Your Meter


Have you ever looked at the number on your meter and thought, “What? That can't be right! My blood glucose level is 238 mg/dL and I haven't eaten anything.” ...
Love the Skin You’re In!
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Love the Skin You’re In!


By Janis Roszler, R.D., C.D.E., L.D./N. ...
Making the Most of Your Blood Glucose Readings
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Making the Most of Your Blood Glucose Readings


By Paige Reddan, M.S., R.D., C.D.E. ...
Monitoring Your Body's Responses to Treatment and Medication
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Monitoring Your Body's Responses to Treatment and Medication


If you are taking insulin or diabetes pills to help control your diabetes, you may already be aware that checking your blood glucose is one way of helping you know if your medicine is effective. Your body reacts to medication based o ...
Reducing Coverage Confusion
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Reducing Coverage Confusion


Many people with diabetes aren’t sure which Medicare card to use for meters, test strips and other supplies. Understanding your test strip coverage—and how to access the benefits you’re entitled to—could really save you money. ...
Talking to Your Doctor About Testing
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Talking to Your Doctor About Testing


If you have diabetes, it's all but certain that your doctor has said you should test your blood glucose. This is because not everyone with diabetes responds the same way to medications, food, exercise and stress. A collection of bl ...
The Importance of After-Meal Testing
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The Importance of After-Meal Testing


As a person who has lived with diabetes for 35 years and as a physician specializing in taking care of people with diabetes for over 20, it has always made perfect sense to me to try and mimic what happens to the post-meal blood su ...
The Numbers Game
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The Numbers Game


By Paige Reddan, M.S., R.D., C.D.E. ...
Your Logbook: How to write the book on good control
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Your Logbook: How to write the book on good control


When it comes to controlling your blood glucose levels, one book will serve you better than any other—the one you write yourself! Once you understand how your glucose numbers reflect what you're doing, feeling and eating, your logboo ...
Diabetes and Your Heart
Staying in control

Diabetes and Your Heart


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Food and Blood Glucose Monitoring
Staying in control

Food and Blood Glucose Monitoring


The food you eat directly impacts blood glucose levels. In order to create a meal plan that works best for you—one that helps you stay within your target range and eat the foods you like—you should be aware of how the foods you eat c ...
Get Off the Blood Glucose Roller Coaster
Staying in control

Get Off the Blood Glucose Roller Coaster


Dramatic fluctuations in your blood glucose levels have significant physical symptoms and increase your risk of diabetes-related complications. Often, the first signs that your levels may be off-target are changes in your thinking ...
Hypoglycemia
Staying in control

Hypoglycemia


The definition of hypoglycemia—or “low blood glucose”—is a blood glucose level that falls below 70 mg/dL. Some situations that can result in hypoglycemia include: ...
Pass This Test!
Staying in control

Pass This Test!


Before reading any farther, stop and estimate your blood glucose level. Write down the figure. Now test your glucose. How did your guess and the results of the actual test compare? If you underestimated or overestimated your blood g ...
Random Blood Glucose Test
Staying in control

Random Blood Glucose Test


The way to test for diabetes is to measure your blood glucose level. A random test is done at any time, to get a "snapshot" picture of the glucose concentration in your bloodstream. In general, this can be determined from the few d ...
Sick Days
Staying in control

Sick Days


Pay close attention during periods of illness, when stresses on your body can make it difficult to maintain good glucose control. The body can respond to an illness by sending out stress hormones. These hormones create an environmen ...
Sick-Day Solutions
Staying in control

Sick-Day Solutions


By Lance Porter Pay close attention during periods of illness, when stresses on your body can make it difficult to maintain good glucose control. ...
The 7 Healthy Behaviors
Staying in control

The 7 Healthy Behaviors


Managing your diabetes is a lot of work, and requires a lot of knowledge and skills in order to manage it. Oftentimes, the person we look to for guidance is our diabetes educator. But, in a 15-minute visit, are you really learning ...
What to Do When You're Sick
Staying in control

What to Do When You're Sick


It's no fun being sick. But when you have diabetes, you need to take special precautions. When you're sick, it's just more difficult to maintain your blood glucose levels in your target range. Your body releases hormones that can rai ...
A1C and Monitoring
Understanding your numbers

A1C and Monitoring


There are two ways to monitor your blood glucose levels: the glycosylated hemoglobin test (the HbA1C test or “A1C” for short), and home self-monitoring of blood glucose (SMBG). ...
Fasting Blood Glucose Test
Understanding your numbers

Fasting Blood Glucose Test


The fasting blood glucose test is the test most commonly used to diagnose diabetes. It measures blood glucose levels after a period of fasting, usually at least eight hours without food or liquid (except water). This test is more def ...
How to Get an A on Your A1C Test
Understanding your numbers

How to Get an A on Your A1C Test


Regular blood glucose testing isn't the only important indicator of your control. The hemoglobin A1C test, which measures the amount of glucose in your red blood cells, provides an average of your glucose control over a period of t ...
Keeping Your Numbers in a Healthy Range
Understanding your numbers

Keeping Your Numbers in a Healthy Range


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Taking Care: Preparing for Lab Tests
Understanding your numbers

Taking Care: Preparing for Lab Tests


As a person with diabetes, you know that testing is a part of life. But some blood or radiological tests may require you to change your regular eating times or perhaps modify your medication schedule. If you have any doubts about how ...
What You Don't Know Can Hurt You: Learning to Help Yourself
Understanding your numbers

What You Don't Know Can Hurt You: Learning to Help Yourself


It's a whole new world out there when it comes to diabetes. Each month brings more exciting developments: more information about causes, treatments and cures; new medications for keeping blood sugar, fat and pressure levels as clos ...
 
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