checking blood sugar?

brandyII · 04-15-2008, 10:56 PM

This may sound dumb to most of you who know more about the subject than I do but how often do you all check your blood sugar if you have type 2 diabetes and what would you say is a normal morning reading?

Is it different for everyone or is there pretty much a standard I could go by?

Any info would be appreciated. I see my doctor on Monday and the endocrinologist in a month and haven't really been good at checking it and am off metformin at the moment and hope to get back on it again.

I had to leave another thread that got me all engrossed in their bickering back and forth, thanks brandyII

**Jack** · 04-15-2008, 11:19 PM

re: "haven't really been good at checking it and am off metformin at the moment and hope to get back on it again."

Answer 'why' you aren't checking it if there has been a problem?

And if you are 'off' it why would you hope to get back on it if you don't know whether you might need it or not?

The only way to make clinical decisions is to have clinical information.

I was injecting insulin for 15 long years and currently only take orals.

In no way do I 'hope to be back on it'....

And I take mine at least once daily to help make health care decision each and every day.

Ask your PCP what yours should be and then strive to keep it there.

brandyII · 04-15-2008, 11:27 PM

Long story short, as soon as my primary care p. found out I was getting the lap band he didn't renew my script. Neither he or the endocrinologist he sent me to had every had me check my blood sugar etc... I was put on metformin and took it 3x a day and that was that.

Then during all the preop testing I was sent to a different endocrinologist and she found me to have a under active thyroid and put me on meds for that and I told her how my script was not renewed for metformin and she thought that strange. She asked me if I checked my blood sugar and I said no one ever told me to or showed me how or anything.

She then whips out one of those One touch ultras and showed me how and told me to keep track. Anyway I kind of did and was going to go back to see her and then she moved to a different city and I'm searching for reasons why I'm having a hard time with the band and since my doc told me he thought I had PCOS that I started researching and asking people questions and people have suggested that going off the metformin may be affecting my weight loss. So of course I don't get an appointment to see the endo until the end of May so I'm trying to get as much info from people about this to see what to do since I have to wait so long. Does that make sense? I know I have a tendency to ramble.

I know you don't want to take your insulin injections, I can't blame you but I maybe insulin resistant and may need the medication. I would rather be on it and lose weight than not on it and not lose the weight.

Thanks brandyII.

TulipStar · 04-19-2008, 10:00 AM

I don't really check my blood sugar regularly bc it has never been a problem. I don't have diabetes, but my entire family does, so I am at high risk.

When I do check it in the morning it is between 75-95.

brandyII · 04-19-2008, 11:21 AM

Tulipstar, thanks for the info, brandyII.