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Sometimes people wonder when it would be "best" to check the blood sugar level. There isn't any single best time, but here are some suggestions:Before meals.After meals (although exactly how long after starting to eat is arguable: some folks say 90 minutes, others 120 minutes).At bedtim...
Hello Doctor Quick
Have you heard of "Jennifer's Advice"? I know some of your fellow experts on this site have. You will find it in many places on the web, but this is probably the main version: Newly Diagnosed
The problem with the testing advice offered by many doctors is that they don't tell their patients how to make good use of the results. If a test doesn't provide information that can either inform the doctor or help us take action to improve, why bother? But if the result is used to analyse what caused it and to try to change things to get a better result next time then it can be very valuable indeed.
I would be interested to read your comments on that method, or on the variant I used myself described here: Test, Review, Adjust
Cheers, Alan, T2, Australia
Alan:
I completely agree: checking blood sugar values is totally useless unless the patient has some guidance on how to use the information that was gathered. As I said, "...that's the subject of another discussion sometime soon."
Very best wishes,
Bill