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View Poll Results: How many times do you test on a regular day? | |
1-3
|    | 11 | 16.67% | |
4-6
|    | 22 | 33.33% | |
7-8
|    | 22 | 33.33% | |
9-10
|    | 11 | 16.67% |
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04-06-2008, 07:43 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Texas
Posts: 61
| | | How many Times do you Test a day
Just curious How many times do you test on a regular day??
Me probably 8 times a day just depends
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Molly, 15, Type 1 for 13 years
Pumping with Animas 1200.
Daughter to my dad Clay a type one diabetic for 40 years.On shots
Older cousin to Mandy also type 1 diabetic for 1 year. Pumpin with Cosmo. |
04-06-2008, 07:54 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Auckland
Posts: 215
| | | I test about 7 or 8, depending.. but never less than 6. |
04-06-2008, 08:45 PM
|  | Senior Member
I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Kansas, US
Posts: 884
| | | Record low: Three, done only once. I've managed 4-6 a few times.
Past 7 days: 40 --> 5.7/day.
Past 14 days: 99 --> 7.1/day.
Past 30 days: 248 --> 8.3/day.
Days 15-30 ago had more testing while I was switching from Lantus to Levemir.
Shortly after DX: I'd blow through a box of 100 strips each week. I extensively researched insulin and food profiles.
I voted "7-8".
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Eddy
DXed 2007/04 = presented with advanced-stage DKA, A1c of 12.9%, and BMI of 21.3 kg/m^2
Post-DX A1c = ?.?% @ 2008/07; 5.2% @ 2008/04; 5.3% @ 2007/12; 5.3% @ 2007/08
current BMI = 26.0 (86kg on 182cm); want to get back to 23-24
basal = 2U human N @ 0630, 6U detemir @ 0630, 8U detemir @ 1130, 18U detemir @ 2030 (tweaking again/still as of 2008/07/03!)
bolus = 1:15 I:C ratio; varying mix of aspart, human R, human N
not a low-CHO eater... not even close!
last updated 2008/07/03
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04-06-2008, 09:53 PM
|  | Senior Member
I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Universe, Planet Earth :P
Posts: 818
| | On a typical day i test 10-12 times, but sometimes only 6-8 times if i'm lazy 
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22 years old, diagnosed T1D on october 14th 2004.
On MDI, Novorapid and Levemir, using the NP4 
Currently back to pumping with my IR1200, April 2008.
Been using D-tron and Animas IR1200 but prefer the pen |
04-06-2008, 10:34 PM
|  | Senior Member
I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Kent, WA USA
Posts: 2,561
| | There's no option for me.  I'm between 12 and 16 times a day... |
04-07-2008, 12:39 AM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Beijing, China
Posts: 400
| | I test 4-6 times a day depending on how good/bad the last reading was and how well I have kept to eating well! |
04-07-2008, 01:37 AM
|  | Senior Member
I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Spotsylvania, VA (USA)
Posts: 1,100
| | 6-8 times a day, depending  |
04-07-2008, 03:22 AM
| | Junior Member
I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Florida
Posts: 71
| | | 10-14 really, my non-exercise day is usually the lowest.
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You must get rid of the life you have planned to live the life you have. |
04-07-2008, 04:07 AM
|  | Junior Member | | Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: St. Louis, Mo
Posts: 40
| | | 8-10 but it varies depending if I am battling highs |
04-07-2008, 04:59 AM
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I am a: Type 1.5 | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Milton Keynes. U.K.
Posts: 666
| | | 7-8 on a normal day. More if anything is unusual.
Heather.
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Anne Herbert.
Sing, dance, love and laugh. These are the true foods of life.
Unknown.
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04-07-2008, 05:22 AM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Dublin, Ireland
Posts: 1,548
| | | I generally test 6-7 times, Morning, before lunch, 2 hrs after lunch, before I drive home from office, if I don't have dinner when I arrive home I'll test before dinner, 2 hrs after dinner and before bed.
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" This above all,--to thine own self be true; and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man."
William Shakespeare
Diagnosed Type II on 26th November 2007
Metformin 500mg twice daily
Enap 5mg
Initial A1c (14th Dec07): 11.6%
15th Jan'08: 9%
3rd March'08 6.8%
6th June'08 6.1% |
04-07-2008, 05:59 AM
| | Senior Member
I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Rhode Island
Posts: 4,333
| | | I test a minimum of 8 times a day and upwards of 12, depending on whether or not my BS is running high or low.
Karen |
04-07-2008, 06:22 AM
|  | Member | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: England
Posts: 412
| | | never less than 4, usually 5-8 depends on what i'm doing,eating etc.
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type: MODY 3
diagnosed: feb 2000
using: lantus and novorapid
last Hba1c: 5.7% July 2007
previous HbA1c:5.6% April 2007
previous HbA1c: 6.2% Febuary 2007
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04-07-2008, 06:51 AM
|  | Senior Member
I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Hastings Melbourne Australia
Posts: 2,489
| | | I just test when I about to eat or do something physical or curiosity and that's 10 times a day.
__________________ We inject to stay alive!!! So that i can enjoy what you enjoy!!!  Peter... Insulins Novorapid and Levemir.
So I am well armed to enjoy food of any kind!!!  |
04-07-2008, 08:40 AM
|  | Senior Member
I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: St. Charles, IL
Posts: 525
| | You didn't include a vote for less than one. 
I'm down to a couple times a week because test after test I'm consistently 90-130 and my last A1c was 5.7 so I'm good to go.
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