What do diabetic patience use today to keep track of their sugar?

Question

I would like to know any good tips in which one to buy? It would be better if it doesn't require needles. Any information would be helpful, thanks.

Answer 1

ask your doctor for one... they usually have them to give out to their ada patients.  

All of them require needles, but it is not enough to worry about.. it just lightly breaks the skin.

my doctor supplies my strips and all.

Answer 2

Glucose meter, check on the upper arm, it doesn't hurt.

Answer 3

first of all you can't do it without needles cause my brother is diabetic and is helping answer questions so no you can't so get over it. and the best brand is Freestyle.

Answer 4

You can't get away from the Finger Stick Glucose Monitoring System.  Somehow, somewhere, you are going to HAVE TO get a drop of blood.  The ONLY way to measure your blood sugar is with a drop of real, live blood.

There are some new meters now that will let you use your forearm instead of finger tips.  This hurts less.  But you DO have to have a special meter.  The blood in your forearm does have a different glucose level that that in your finger tips, so you need a special meter than can handle it.

Answer 5

I would pick the glucose monitor that uses the least expensive test strips. You're going to use a lot of test strips and they are expensive. When you prick your finger for a blood sample, aim a bit off to the side of your finger pad. Sampling from the middle hurts the most. Use a different finger and area of pad for each test so one finger doesn't get too sore.

Answer 6

I have several different meters and my primary meter is an Accu-Check Compact Plus. I also have a OneTouch Ultra Mini, One Touch Ultra and a Breeze II. Of all of them, the Accu-Check has by far the least painful lancet device. One of the reasons it's my primary. I also like not having to code my meter to my test strips as they come in a cartridge of 17 strips and the meter reads the code off a bar cod eon the cartridge. I also don't have to touch the strip except to get the blood on it, the meter pushes a strip into position for use and then ejects it when the test is completed. Most test strips cast between $0.70 and $1.20 per strip. My insurance covers all but $15/month so the cost of the strip doesn't matter to me. The meters can be obtained for free almost every time so that doesn't matter to me either. I went for convenience and less pain. I also purchased the cable and software for the Accu-Check and have found that to be very helpful to get the best overview picture of my progress in controlling this disease. It downloads all my results from my primary meter, I then manually add in the results from my travel meter and then I get reports telling my how well overall I'm doing by showing me how many times I have been over my limit for any given period of time, how my results look based on windows of time of the day, days of the week, etc. With this information, I look for patterns such as a certain morning of the week that I have a breakfast meeting and how that meal affects my glucose. A bunch of numbers in a booklet is useful but getting averages with these types of breakdowns is unbelievable helpful in keepin me on track and doing well. I was diagnosed with an A1C of 9.9% my test from three months ago was 6.4% and I just got my latest at 5.6%.