Checking your Glucose

So this is not a recipe post but one for my fellow Type II’s out there. So as you know monitoring glucose is a day choir we do as a diabetic. for many of use it involves pricking our finger, using strips and a meter to check our sugar levels. It is not fun but a part of our lives now. In many cases we have to do this multiple times a day. This can also be painful and starts getting expensive for the cost of supplies that are needed. Not only you have to carry this stuff around with you and take the time to do your checks.

Well my Dr. turned me on to another way of checking my sugar levels. I don’t have to remember to carry anything else but my smartphone. This was a game changer for me, because before what he prescribed I was horrible at checking my glucose levels. Not only doing it once a day, there were weeks in between checking my glucose level. This is not a good thing to be neglecting to do for a diabetic.

So here it in FreeStyle Libre 14day this is a sensor that place in a area on the back side of your upper arm and is active for 14days. I now don’t have to remember to keep all my strips, lances and reader with me. You also wont have to prick you fingers several time a day. I now just open the app on my phone and take a reading. With the app on your phone it gives you get a great visualization of what is going on with your glucose levels. It can show you line and bar grafts so you can see what your levels are doing throughout the day.

Above are views of the graft and report information that is provided with the application.