"7. Rarely did anyone understand the importance of checking his or her blood glucose 2 hours after eating. Most were only doing fasting blood sugars. We explained to them that checking blood glucose 2 hours after eating, will show us if their diet, exercise, or medications are working. The reading 2 hours after they eat is 100% in their control, They will learn something new every time they check their blood glucose after they eat. Whether they ate too much, or they ate the wrong foods, or is their medicine working? If it is too high, they can go for a walk and drink some water. They can have an immediate impact with those blood glucose readings."
My husband's doctor should read that article, especially the above quote from it. When he went to the docs yesterday, she looked at his bs records and was amazed that he checks his levels at fasting and at the 2hr pp time after breakfast, lunch and supper. She said that is wasn't necessary to check that often.
What????
Well, like the article states, how else are you supposed to know if what you are doing is helping or hurting if you don't check your bs?
