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View Poll Results: How many times do you test your sugars? | |
zero-1
|    | 1 | 2.56% | |
1 to 3
|    | 6 | 15.38% | |
3 to 6
|    | 10 | 25.64% | |
6 to 8
|    | 6 | 15.38% | |
8 to 10
|    | 11 | 28.21% | |
10 to 13
|    | 4 | 10.26% | |
13 to 16
| | 0 | 0% | |
16 to 18
| | 0 | 0% | |
18 to 20
| | 0 | 0% | |
over 21
| | 1 | 2.56% |
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12-26-2005, 08:48 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Virginia
Posts: 615
| | | Times testing your blood sugar
Honestly How many times do you check your blood sugar??
Before I got my pump I would just test the week before I went in.
Now I at least check at breakfast and dinner.
Or when I don't feel right.
So I'd say 2-3 times a day
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T1 DX'd 4-16-96
Cozmo blue pump since 7-8-05
Latest A1C levels:
7-30-08 A1C 6.0
4-30-08 A1C 5.9
1-18-08 A1C 5.9
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12-26-2005, 09:27 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: North-Central Indiana
Posts: 3,732
| | | It really varies with me. Usually it is between 3-6 but at times I can be testing happy and do it 20 times in one day.
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Pumping for almost 6 years
MM Purple 722 with Humalog
Symlin
Just because I've been on df for a whole day doesn't mean I'm ADDICTED... my chair is just COMFY... |
12-26-2005, 10:02 AM
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I am a: Type 1.5 | | Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Grove City Ohio
Posts: 2,119
| | | I check 8-10 times a day. Every so often I fall below 8 times a day.
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12-26-2005, 10:55 AM
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I am a: Parent | | Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Palm Harbor,FL
Posts: 1,092
| | | Thomas is down to 8-12x a day.
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Thomas (13) diagnosed Sept 24th, 2003, a week before his 10th birthday, pumping since Deecember 2003 - Animas 1250
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12-26-2005, 11:52 AM
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I am a: Type 1.5 | | Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Vancouver, BC, Canada
Posts: 535
| | 8 to 10 times a day for me, sometimes more (I'm a new pumper).
I haven't really counted but I suspect the past few days it's been even more tho 
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TvBabe (AKA Michelle)
Mommy to Maxmillian,the "send me a Fax" Cat
Using an Pretty Silver Animas 1200 Pump with Novarapid! It arrived November 2, 2005.
Latest A1C 5.3 on May 14/06 |
12-26-2005, 01:30 PM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Do Dah, OZ, aka Kansas
Posts: 4,537
| | | 4 times a day three days a week, 12 times a week, or 48 a month + those times I feel weird or have something unusuall. Type 2 no insulin |
12-26-2005, 01:41 PM
| | Junior Member | | Join Date: Dec 2005
Posts: 31
| | | I test between 4-6 times each day, I am one of those people who shoot up and down several times a day so am always feeiling wierd. Fastings are ok but evening sugars are high and afternoon sugars are low. Think I need to move dinner to lunch or split my lantus.
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12-26-2005, 01:54 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Cincinnati, OH
Posts: 8,300
| | | Right now about 5 times a day, but another goal for the new year for me is to test about 10 times a day. I also plan on doing the fasting plan to get my basal rate set perfect on my pump and then try to figure out my carb and correction ratios to perfection. Right now I'm on the "Give insulin, test sometime later, if needed, correct" method.
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●Type 1 diabetic for 25 years (11 months old)
●Animas pumper since December of 2002
~IR 1000 (Dec. 2002-Jan. 2005)
~IR 1200 (Jan. 2005 - ?)
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12-26-2005, 02:00 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: UK
Posts: 821
| | | I test between 8-10 times a day on average but if driving will test before getting behind the wheel.
I have the added bonus of Addison's disease so have to test more often than would normally be needed.
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Sue
Pumping using bovine insulin. (Pump kindly donated by Solox)
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12-26-2005, 04:21 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: May 2004 Location: NC
Posts: 7,118
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I shoot for 8-10 times a day. Some days it's more, some it's less but NEVER less than 6.
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12-27-2005, 02:19 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: May 2003 Location: دولة الإمارات العربية المتحدة, دبيّ
Posts: 3,059
| | | Usually 3-6 times a day. Some days I'll test a lot more, some days I won't test at all. |
12-27-2005, 03:48 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Ontario Canada
Posts: 3,213
| | | I normally test my 6 times a day, once in a while 5 if I'm busy.
If I don't feel right 7-8 occasionally, more if I'm sick with a fever(always
raises my sugars)which thankfully hasn't happened in some time.
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12-27-2005, 04:05 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Cincinnati, OH
Posts: 8,300
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Originally Posted by KickStart101 I normally test my 6 times a day, once in a while 5 if I'm busy.
If I don't feel right 7-8 occasionally, more if I'm sick with a fever(always
raises my sugars)which thankfully hasn't happened in some time. | Sadly I think that may be what I'm having right now. My sugars are everywhere no matter what I try. I can run 300 one minute, give 4 units of insulin (to drop me supposedly 140 mg/dl) and then be running 50 mg/dl 30 minutes later. Not too mention my nose is stuffed up, I can't sleep, and I'm at work, lol.
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●Blue Ash, Ohio Police Dispatcher
●Type 1 diabetic for 25 years (11 months old)
●Animas pumper since December of 2002
~IR 1000 (Dec. 2002-Jan. 2005)
~IR 1200 (Jan. 2005 - ?)
●LifeScan OneTouch UltraSmart Diabetes is an Art, NOT a Science. You must master the control by skills and not by knowledge alone. |
12-27-2005, 04:52 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Ontario Canada
Posts: 3,213
| | Oh you poor Lad, you should be at home in bed. I don't suppose
you carry a thermometer with ya??  Hope ya feel better real soon.
With mine the extra Insulin doesn't drop my sugars, it just barely brings
me to normal when I have a fever and that's with eating not much. 
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12-27-2005, 05:51 AM
|  | Senior Member | | Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Ohio
Posts: 4,470
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Originally Posted by JediSkipdogg Sadly I think that may be what I'm having right now. My sugars are everywhere no matter what I try. I can run 300 one minute, give 4 units of insulin (to drop me supposedly 140 mg/dl) and then be running 50 mg/dl 30 minutes later. Not too mention my nose is stuffed up, I can't sleep, and I'm at work, lol. | Oh no! Not another bug going around! I just got over one, but have family here from California and they are all sniffling and sneezing. I got up this morning, doing the same and at 229. And I was good yesterday! We are going to Columbus (Ohio) today for another "Christmas", and I am sure we are carrying this bug up there, too.
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