Getting a reading from one of these tests from your doctor is a first step, an indication that you need to make changes. Your doctor is likely to provide you with a plan to improve your health, which may include dieting, weight loss and medications. As we will reveal later, it is essential to make significant changes to your lifestyle.
Before you can make these changes, though, you must know how to monitor your own blood sugar. Those that have been diagnosed with pre-diabetes or diabetes are likely to be given instructions on taking their own blood glucose tests. If your doctor provides this, you should follow their directions.
Learning how to check your blood sugar is an important part of living with diabetes. Checking your sugar allows you to make changes to your diet and insulin if necessary, to help your body to use sugars the right way. A doctor or nurse should show you how to check your blood sugar until you feel comfortable about doing so.
This is done using a glucose meter (which calculates your blood sugar,) a lancet and lancing device (used to prick the skin to allow blood to be drawn) and a test strip (which is used to collect blood and then is inserted into the glucose meter.)
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