I have a glucose monitor machine. And you get, you have little lancets, like little needles. And you turn the machine on, it whizzes round, and a little strip comes out the end. You prick your finger with the lancet. You put the machine with the little thing that comes out the bottom on to the blood. It soaks up a bit of blood, takes about two seconds. It then does something in its machine and a reading comes out. So it's very simple.
But I think the cylinders for the little tabs are probably not cheap. Well, I know they're not because I've bought some. But I think it's my way of, that's my way of keeping my sugars down, my sugar levels down, is to do it every day. I mean maybe it will come a time when I don't feel I have to. But it's working at the moment and that's okay. And I don't mind the needle, I don't mind the pinprick every morning, you know. That's fine.
Do you use a different finger every time?
Yes. And, but even so they do start to get (looking at fingers), because I don't, I mean I don't know what people, I've not really examined what people do who are on insulin and have to check their bloods four times a day. Presumably there's, they use different parts of their bodies or something, I don't know. But, no, that, that seems to work for me at the moment. |
