How often should I check my blood sugar if I am diabetic?

If you are diabetic, it is important to maintain your blood sugar regularly, to do this you should first buy a glucometer and if you already do not know how, make sure you ask your Doctor and find out how to use it correctly. Doing this will help take better care of your diabetes. Checking your blood sugar levels at home is going to determine on various factors to your special needs and the doctor is going to be the best person to tell you how often you need to test your sugar levels.

A person that is new to being diabetic or a person whose blood sugar is out of control should test more frequently. If you start feeling dizzy during the day this maybe a sign of your blood sugar being low, other symptoms may include, sweating, shakiness, or dizziness. You might need to check more often in the day if you get sick, have the flu or become pregnant, or ofcourse if you change your eating habits in any way.

Usually a person checks their blood sugar levels right after waking up before they eat breakfast, then check it 1-2 hours after breakfast, before you eat lunch, 1-2 hours after lunch, then right before dinner and 1-2 hrs after dinner and then at bedtime. www2.niddk.nih.gov/ drug3k.com/forum_health/Diabetes/I-have-... ndep.nih.gov/media/KnowNumbers_Eng.pdf.

I check my blood sugar 8 to 9 times a day. What’s been the worst thing about living with diabetes for you? Before I graduated from high school in 1937, nobody would hire me because I was a diabetic.

I had to earn my living by being in business for myself. I made wooden bowls and wooden plates and sold those. No one would hire me because they thought a diabetic wouldn’t live that long.

Before the war nobody hired me because the insurance companies wouldn’t allow them to! What would you say is the best thing about living with diabetes?

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.

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