Blood sugar / glucose monitor?

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YY1 said:
My meter goes to 600 and the first time I checked mine it read "HI", meaning it was over the range!
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holy frijole man! I read you are supposed to go to the ER when over 240.
I saw 340 after I was prescribed budesonide and panicked.
Lately I noticed eating a lot of meat, drinking much water and brisk walking keeps the number lower. Managing to stay in the pre-diabetes zone or near it and that is while taking prednisone. I don't want more medications, especially shots.
 
DodgeLad said:
holy frijole man! I read you are supposed to go to the ER when over 240.
I saw 340 after I was prescribed budesonide and panicked.
Lately I noticed eating a lot of meat, drinking much water and brisk walking keeps the number lower. Managing to stay in the pre-diabetes zone or near it and that is while taking prednisone. I don't want more medications, especially shots.
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240 ain’t nothing. Thats like turning your SB 4000 RPM. Most meters will read to 300-400 then the meter will say Hi. Most diabetics are lucky to keep theirs between 100-200.
 
SGBARRACUDA said:
240 ain’t nothing. Thats like turning your SB 4000 RPM. Most meters will read to 300-400 then the meter will say Hi. Most diabetics are lucky to keep theirs between 100-200.
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I'm feeling even better. Too bad at others' expense. Sorry
 
This is a day where I checked mine alot.

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In a roundabout way, at present I can go to the blood lab, orders from my doc. But that is not very helpful, Sometimes I get to 'feeling bad' on a weekend, etc, I don't want "a months" readings, I want to know WTF is going on. Since I KNOW I'm borderline, I'd like to find out "if that is it" or is it something else.

From about 25 until maybe? 15 ? years ago I was hypoglycemic, and I could tell in the last years that "things were changing" and then of course blood tests confirmed that.
 
67Dart273 said:
In a roundabout way, at present I can go to the blood lab, orders from my doc. But that is not very helpful, Sometimes I get to 'feeling bad' on a weekend, etc, I don't want "a months" readings, I want to know WTF is going on. Since I KNOW I'm borderline, I'd like to find out "if that is it" or is it something else.

From about 25 until maybe? 15 ? years ago I was hypoglycemic, and I could tell in the last years that "things were changing" and then of course blood tests confirmed that.
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I can tell you from experience. High BS is bad for you but doesn’t really make you feel bad. On the other hand low BS is dangerous and will make you feel really bad. Shakes, sweat, delirious, confused.
 
SGBARRACUDA said:
I Shakes, sweat, delirious, confused.
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That is exactly what I USED to get occasionally when I was younger, more hypoglycemic. Nowadays I sometimes have just "beat down" "low energy" some of this is difficult to describe. Sleepy, lethargic sometimes. I'd like to eliminate what I can so far as causes.

It damn sure isn't old age LOLOL (I'm 73)
 
SGBARRACUDA said:
240 ain’t nothing. Thats like turning your SB 4000 RPM. Most meters will read to 300-400 then the meter will say Hi. Most diabetics are lucky to keep theirs between 100-200.
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My Doctor says as long as my AIC is under 7 She is happy. That means an average number of 154 will keep you at 6.99. I'm normally at 5.9.
 
My last A1c was 7.5 before that it was 6.6. It is hard for me to keep it cause eating is one of the things I have as I grow older.
 
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diymirage said:
You sound just like the infomercial

I'm gonna have to look it up on YouTube now, to make sure the old geezer wasn't wearing a pair of bear paw slippers
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I don't know how else to say it. I've told everybody about it that asked. Those infomercials are right. It's all no cost to people on Medicare. If you're on Medicare and don't take advantage of one of those programs, well, you're mission out to say the least. I just tell people about it. I'm not gonna beg um to try it.
 
RustyRatRod said:
I don't know how else to say it. I've told everybody about it that asked. Those infomercials are right. It's all no cost to people on Medicare. If you're on Medicare and don't take advantage of one of those programs, well, you're mission out to say the least. I just tell people about it. I'm not gonna beg um to try it.
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no man, i get it
(in fact, ask me about a little product called the "tick key", and i sound the same way)

it was just funny, i totally saw you in your slippers doing the commercial
 
diymirage said:
no man, i get it
(in fact, ask me about a little product called the "tick key", and i sound the same way)

it was just funny, i totally saw you in your slippers doing the commercial
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lol yeah immediately after I typed it I said to myself "I sounded like Joe Namath". LOL
 
RustyRatRod said:
I don't know how else to say it. I've told everybody about it that asked. Those infomercials are right. It's all no cost to people on Medicare. If you're on Medicare and don't take advantage of one of those programs, well, you're mission out to say the least. I just tell people about it. I'm not gonna beg um to try it.
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Yeh, but what I'm seeing you have to be "BEING TREATED" for diabetes before they will pay. Using it as a borderline "preventative" tool does not seem to buy you in I'm pretty sure I ask'd my doc about this
 
67Dart273 said:
Yeh, but what I'm seeing you have to be "BEING TREATED" for diabetes before they will pay. Using it as a borderline "preventative" tool does not seem to buy you in I'm pretty sure I ask'd my doc about this
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Ok, so what's the problem with being treated? Am I missin somethin? Pre-diabetes is also a treatable condition and that sounds like what you have.
 
Evidently (unless my doc is missing something) you have to be using insulin. Maybe I'll revisit this issue
 
And some of the stuff isnt covered for me until I'm on the needle! WTF?? Not covered as preventative? Again here we go with pharmaceuticals lol.
67Dart273 said:
Yeh, but what I'm seeing you have to be "BEING TREATED" for diabetes before they will pay. Using it as a borderline "preventative" tool does not seem to buy you in I'm pretty sure I ask'd my doc about this
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67Dart273 said:
Evidently (unless my doc is missing something) you have to be using insulin. Maybe I'll revisit this issue
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Your doctor is missing something. We've never been on insulin. Metformin in pill form was all we were ever on and in fact, now we've been taken off of it because our diet has our numbers where they need to be, but our supplies are still paid for.
 
Well I certainly intend to bang on her door about this. It may also be that in the past I"ve been consistently below the A1C that is the "threshold"
 
67Dart273 said:
Well I certainly intend to bang on her door about this. It may also be that in the past I"ve been consistently below the A1C that is the "threshold"
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Keep in mind, it may not necessarily matter what your doctor says, but what the PLAN says you may be looking at. They are all about preventative maintenance.
 
I don’t know of a medicare provider that doesn’t cover diabetes supplies. Now to get the Freestyle Libre and other non needle stick methods takes aproval for them to cover.
 
If you go for blood work you have to do a12 hours fast usually.
If you want your numbers up so you can qualify for the libre, or what every device they will play for.
Then when they ask sir when's the last time you ate.
Uh around 14 hours ago. :rolleyes:
 
Old man ray said:
If you go for blood work you have to do a12 hours fast usually.
If you want your numbers up so you can qualify for the libre, or what every device they will play for.
Then when they ask sir when's the last time you ate.
Uh around 14 hours ago. :rolleyes:
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Just eat a big candy bar about an hour ahead of time.
 
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