Aaron Baugher wrote:
"Ophelia" writes:


I don't have a clue what my bg is. Ought I to know, or would know if
there was a problem?


I think it's a very useful thing to know. If you're overweight, there's
a good chance that your blood sugar isn't well controlled. If your BG
doesn't come back to normal within two hours after eating, that means
either A) your pancreas isn't producing as much insulin as it should, or
B) it's producing insulin like crazy, but you're insulin resistant
enough that all that insulin isn't able to convince your cells to pull
the glucose out of your blood. The latter may eventually wear your
pancreas out to the point of Type II diabetes.

A doctor can do a fasting BG test, but for $50-$100 in equipment and
strips you can test yourself multiple times: fasting, when waking up,
one hour and two hours after meals, after exercise, etc. That'll give
you a much better picture of how your body handled glucose than a single
test will. You can also test after foods like sugar alcohols, which
seem to cause a BG spike in some people and not others, to see how they
affect you.


Someone here said that the best deal on a blood sugar tester is to get
the Sams Club meter and their test strips.

I went into my local Sams CLub and the pharmacy guy agreed and said that
the prices were as much as 50% below the competitors.

There are many "free" offers for meters, but they stick you in the end
for all of the higher cost test strips.

I haven't bought one yet. But, I might soon.

This advice is assuming you have access to a Sams Club.