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View Poll Results: Do you test your sugar before driving? | |
Always
|    | 9 | 16.07% | |
Most of the time
|    | 23 | 41.07% | |
Seldom
|    | 18 | 32.14% | |
Never
|    | 6 | 10.71% | |
Whats a test?!
|    | 0 | 0% |
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01-06-2007, 05:30 PM
|  | Junior Member
I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: California
Posts: 95
| | | Driving
I try to test every time before I get in the car, but I admit to not being perfect, so let's take a poll!
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01-06-2007, 05:43 PM
|  | Senior Member
I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Southern USA
Posts: 1,500
| | | The only time I don't test is if I've recently tested and well within my driving comfort zone. Normally, though, every time. I'm totally paranoid at the thought of going hypo while driving. |
01-06-2007, 05:55 PM
|  | Senior Member
I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Cincinnati, OH
Posts: 8,291
| | | I test if I feel low or if I have been doing alot of heavy activity prior to driving.
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01-06-2007, 06:21 PM
| | Member
I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Ottawa, ON
Posts: 205
| | I only do when I know I haven't eaten in a while. I'm not one to get many hypos though so I don't worry so much about it. I laughed at the "What's a test?" option. I guess one would have to be in the wrong place. 
__________________ Nada
Type 2, hoping to be pregnant in the new year
Pumping with my Minimed 722
A1C 12/06 - 5.8%  |
01-06-2007, 08:20 PM
|  | Senior Member
I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Rothesay, New Brunswick Canada, eh
Posts: 6,812
| | | After work, when I typically go low, or after exercise. |
01-06-2007, 09:13 PM
|  | Senior Member | | Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Manassas, in the Old Dominion
Posts: 6,534
| | | When I voted most of the time, it's like 95%. The few times I don't, it's because I tested in the last two hours, knew I was stable, etc.
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01-07-2007, 02:47 AM
|  | Senior Member
I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Ottawa, ON
Posts: 1,217
| | | Wow, I never test beforedriving. On a long road trip I will test during a pit stop to see where I'm at, but I never test before driving, unless i think i feel low.....
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01-07-2007, 03:11 AM
|  | Senior Member
I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Santa Rosa Texas
Posts: 724
| | | No !!!
hhmmmmmmmmm........ No, It really hasn't crossed my mind... Gee, how sad... I'm normally not your low BS kind of person... Being super HIGH is probably just as bad too... huh...?!  I'm always rushing about though....Now you have me thinking....  |
01-07-2007, 03:58 AM
|  | Senior Member
I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Portsmouth UK
Posts: 1,607
| | | i usually know what's going on with my bg, so i only really test when i feel low, or if im not sure what it is. Naughty really.
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Type 1 Since - 24/7/2006 HbA1c
13/10/2006 - 7.2%  | 15/12/2006 - 6.0%  | 29/06/2007 - 7.1% | 02/11/2007 - 7.8% | 29/02/2008 - 6.5%  | 07/08/2008 - 6.8
Insulin - Levemir and NovoRapid | Meter - LifeScan OneTouch Ultra smart  Pasta is a gift that just keeps giving... |
01-07-2007, 04:29 AM
| | Ex-moderator
I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: May 2003 Location: دولة الإمارات العربية المتحدة, دبيّ
Posts: 3,055
| | | I'm like Stu, I can generally guess my BG quite well. However, most of my car journeys (when I had a car) were pretty short anyway - I live about half and hour away from pretty much everything. On longer journeys though I will test, and I'll probably test mid-journey too. I've lost track of the amount of times I've pulled over at Taunton Deane services on the way to Exeter. |
01-07-2007, 04:30 AM
|  | Senior Member | | Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Tennessee
Posts: 2,371
| | | I don't test UNLESS I am going on a long trip...over an hour away. I then normally test when I get up, 2 hours after (which is when I am on the road) and depending upon the result I set a schedule (in my head) of how often to test there after.
__________________  Belinda
"- work as if you don't need money, - love as if you've never been hurt, -
dance, as if nobody can see you, - sing, as if no one can hear, - live, as
if the Earth was a heaven."
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01-07-2007, 05:55 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Baltimore, USA
Posts: 187
| | | I always try to know what my BS is while driving, which like some others only means testing sometimes right before driving. |
01-07-2007, 10:45 AM
|  | Senior Member
I am a: Type 1.5 | | Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Orlando, FL
Posts: 7,835
| | | I said "most of the time" only because sometimes I've checked close enough before I'm driving that I know I'm ok. I is very unsafe for a type 1 to drive without knowing what their bg is...
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01-07-2007, 10:54 AM
|  | Senior Member
I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: B.C., Canada
Posts: 1,878
| | Quote:
Originally Posted by Cyborg  I said "most of the time" only because sometimes I've checked close enough before I'm driving that I know I'm ok. I is very unsafe for a type 1 to drive without knowing what their bg is... | I'm the same as Cyborg. I check about every two hours so I feel confident of where my bs are. Plus I have sugar and candy in the truck as well as in my purse, just in case!
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01-07-2007, 11:41 AM
| | Senior Member
I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Rothesay, New Brunswick Canada, eh
Posts: 6,812
| | | I should mention that I pretty much always know where my BGs are. It is rare that I get into a car without having tested recently anyway. |
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