I was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes in August of 2008. Type 2 diabetes is in my family; my mother had it and my sister has it. I was bound to get it. I have been in a pre-diabetes stage for a few years now but really think if I had paid more attention to prevention I would not have diabetes. But alas, during a routine doctor’s visit in August my sugar measured 218. As it should be between 90 and 130 mg/dl before meals and under 180 mg/dl two hours after the start of a meal according to the American Diabetes Association, see diabetes.org. I could no longer consider myself as pre-diabetic. After the shock and realizing that for breakfast I had eaten a fresh peach with oatmeal and including drinking a glass of orange juice for breakfast it is no wonder that my blood sugar was so high. The doctor prescribed the equipment for me to test at home.

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i just recently got a one touch ultra test kit and i have noticed how expensive the test strips are. i noticed at alot of stores they sell generic strips- can these be used in any machine to test sugar???
thanks

In recent years, the incidence of type two Diabetes Mellitus has been on the rise. Some countries are now facing a wide spread epidemic if the numbers continue to increase at the current rate. For instance, in China, the predicted rate of the population to develop type two Diabetes Mellitus is at ten percent.

When you calculate that the population is at 1.2 billion people, you can see that the rising trend of Diabetes development can be staggering. If this number of people were to develop diabetes, the impact would be catastrophic on the social and economic structure of the country.

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Diabetes mellitus is a disease that causes higher than normal blood sugars in its sufferers. It is of two types: (1) Type I diabetes, which normally affects young people. It occurs when the body doesn’t make enough insulin to rid the body of excess sugar. The only way to treat that disease is to provide insulin to make up for the lost insulin from the pancreas. (2) Type II diabetes generally affects older people and is a condition where the body makes insulin but the cells of the body don’t respond to the insulin in the body.

The disease of diabetes mellitus affects 20.8 million people in the US or 7% of the total population. Nearly 6 million of them do not know they have the disease. Both genetics and environment and heredity play a role in who gets diabetes and who doesn’t. Poor dietary habits and obesity play a large role in the development of type II diabetes.

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a friend of mine was just recently diagnosed with diabetes. she got a monitor that can test on either your finger or any other part of the body. the directions were to check first on a finger tip, then on another part of the body (she chose her arm). the device then calculated the difference in the readings so she can use her arm for future testing.

my question is…. why is there a different reading from her finger tip and her arm? any ideas?

This time when I went on vacation to India I took a Blood Sugar Testing machine for my father. Even after having tablets his reading was 269. After seeing that he was worried, I thought he would control his diet. Instead after a month when I checked his reading was 328.

My relatives visited me on my birthday. In the evening, randomly I started checking for my aunties. To my surprise all of them had Diabetes. One of them read 428. She was not even taking tablets.

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Campbell’s Russian Dwarf Hamsters (Phodopus campbelli) are prone to diabetes. It is thought to be a genetically inherited disorder, although one hamster autopsied by a vet the UK thought it was possibly secondary to a virus that destroyed pancreatic cells. But since it is thought to be genetic, all responsible dwarf hamster breeders test their stock for diabetes. Most of us test using home urine test strips for ketones and glucose. My question is: How accurate are urine test strips meant for humans going to be in hamster urine? Hamsters concentrate their urine much more than people do – wouldn’t this affect the reading (giving a falsely high result)? If not, why not? If so, what are some other methods to test for diabetic hamsters? Most vets don’t deal with pocket pets, and even when they consent to treat them, many don’t even know the healthy blood glucose level for a dwarf hamster. What are our options?

My grandma is getting sick of poking her finger everyday, is there a daily test thing that doesn’t poke your finger?