Happy Saturday, and welcome back to our weekly advice column, Ask D’Mine! hosted by veteran type 1, diabetes author and educator Wil Dubois.
This week, Wil is looking at decisions that pump companies make about the glucose meters that will pair with their devices. This can be a tricky one, especially when we get names like Contour and Contour NEXT that sound so much alike but require different strips… Wil has some thoughts here, of…
Your glucose meter might be keeping secrets from you.
If and when you see a message on the screen alerting you to a “High” blood sugar, the meter probably knows more than it’s telling you, as in the exact numerical value associated with that warning. But the device makers decided that we don’t need that information…
This came to light (in our brains, at least) following the March 25 announcement that almost two million LifeScan…
Welcome back to our weekly diabetes advice column, Ask D’Mine — with host veteran type 1, diabetes author and educator Wil Dubois. This week, some of our readers are pondering some specific glucose meter models and the function of control solution, and naturally, Wil has some advice based on his own experience and a keen eye on the meter market through the years…
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Joe, type 2 from…
Apropos to Halloween last week, a doctor I know — who happens to be an endocrinologist — recently offered me a piece of hard candy. Casually. Without hesitation. When I smiled and noted that my “condition” keeps me off that stuff, he insisted I was being “obsessive.”
Surely one piece of hard candy won’t do much to your blood sugar, right?
Ummm, that’s what I take when I’m low. For me it’s a treatment, you know…?
The…
Apropos to today’s newsflash…
Diabetes advocate and author Riva Greenberg has been on a “meter accuracy kick” lately — researching the heck out of this controversial topic. Very timely considering I’ve been seeing loads of expensive TV ads for Accu-Chek’s new Nano meter, claiming that it’s “23% more accurate” (!)
Riva recently published a piece at the Huffington Post on why meter accuracy is both less, and more, critical than you might think. Truth is, she tells us,…