How do you figure the BG??

[CShirley]

I see people say their BG was 18.4 or 7.9 or 5.2... I have only known about the sugar readings 123, 72, 101 or the A1C's 17.5, 11.4, 11.2, 9.8... I know BG is blood glucose but how do you figure it?? is there a meter that tells you??


Please answer.. Curious

[princesslinda]

There's a "converter" you can use to the right of the screen under "site navigation" that will allow you to see both results. Here in the states, we use mg/dl for our results, while other places use mmol/L.

[davef]

It's kind of like miles and kilometers ;)

As Linda says there's a converter in the right panel, to convert mmol/L to US (mg/gl) multiply by 18.

Funny thing is since joining the forum I often find myself looking at my meter and converting it to the US units. Completely threw a friend last weekend when we were talking about numbers and I started speaking American :)

[Evermont]

If I was a sexy glucometer user interface designer... I would display both numbers and let the user configure which number shows up with bigger print.

[sparrow1]

There's a "converter" you can use to the right of the screen under "site navigation" that will allow you to see both results. Here in the states, we use mg/dl for our results, while other places use mmol/L.

I don't have a converter under Site Navigation. Am I using the wrong skin? My screen is grey and blue. It shows:
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[princesslinda]

Using the gray screen, you'll have to go under "tools" at the top left and you'll find the converter there.

[Lizzie G]

i never knew there was a converter tool on the site but a simple calculator does the same job! take your reading that you get on you US calibrated machine and divide by 18 and you have the mmol reading.

[Eddy]

The "American" units aren't American enough for my liking. I want a glucometer that displays output in ounces per gallon. Bonus points for binary display of IEEE floating point numbers.

:D

[Evermont]

1.00010101100000E-00000110... like that?

[Eddy]

1.00010101100000E-00000110... like that?


At the risk of seriously hijacking this thread, and being wholly unhelpful... you forgot to drop the leading "1", which is implied in IEEE representation. :vroam:

I'll go back to my corner now. :whistling:

[RobiJo]

I see people say their BG was 18.4 or 7.9 or 5.2... I have only known about the sugar readings 123, 72, 101 or the A1C's 17.5, 11.4, 11.2, 9.8... I know BG is blood glucose but how do you figure it?? is there a meter that tells you??
Please answer.. Curious

Here in the states, we use mg/dl for our results, while other places use mmol/L.

We just have to be different don't we?

take your reading that you get on you US calibrated machine and divide by 18 and you have the mmol reading.


CShirley I think it's also important to note that mmol is not the same measurement as A1c's (which are percents) A reading of 7 mmol/L (126 mg/dl) is not the same as a A1c of 7.

Likely in the set up in your meter when you set the time and date, one of the options is mg/dl or mmol/L. All of my current meters have this option. Somehow I changed it when I was much younger and was severely confused.....

[fgummett]

I think it's also important to note that mmol is not the same measurement as A1c's (which are percents) A reading of 7 mmol/L (126 mg/dl) is not the same as a A1c of 7.
Good Point... I'm sure too many folks fall into that misconception that an A1c (aka HbA1c) of 7% is the same as an average Blood Sugar (BS) of 7mmol/l ...when it is actually closer to an average of BS of 9.5mmol/l or 171 mg/dl :)

Likely in the set up in your meter when you set the time and date, one of the options is mg/dl or mmol/L. All of my current meters have this option. Somehow I changed it when I was much younger and was severely confused.Reminds me of the time I was playing with my insulin pump and discovered you can change the menu language to some that don't even use the Alphabet that I recognise... and I do mean it changes the language for ALL the menu options... even the ones needed to change the language back to English :stupido2: