Ophelia wrote:
Jim wrote:

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.


Was that meant for me Jim? If so, I am in UK




Yes, you had mentioned being in the UK before where not everything is
the same as the USA, even though we both misspeak the English language.