Type 2 diabetes isn’t the best condition to have, but then it isn’t the worst and what’s more you get to control it. Now you have your diagnosis you realize diabetes isn’t just about lowering your weight… it is also about lowering your blood sugar levels.

Your laboratory blood tests revealed high blood sugar levels and maybe you are wondering why a simple positive result isn’t enough. Now why do you need to self-monitor your blood sugars also?

Take Charge:

You are really the CEO of this deal! You need to take charge of your type 2 diabetes and monitor just how well your medications (if prescribed), eating plan and lifestyle changes… a fancy name for exercise program, are working to help you lower your blood sugar level. Amongst people with type 2 diabetes, its been found self monitoring leads to them having much better control of their blood sugars.

The Groovy or Gory Glucometer:

Which is it to you? Do you see the glucometer as a help, as a way to view your body’s response to the efforts you have been making to overcome your type 2 diabetes? Or do you just see it as a “pain”?

It is actually a clever little device that has only been available in the last thirty years. Until then urine testing was used… this was probably one of the reasons many diabetics had hypoglycemia or hyperglycemia so often.

The glucometer reads the amount of sugar in your bloodstream at a given time and expresses it in milligrams of glucose per deciliter (mg/dL) or millimoles per liter (mmol/L). The US uses mg/dL as the standard measurement for blood glucose, whilst Canada, the UK, Australia and many other countries use mmol/L.

The glucometer provides an instant picture, not an average over a period of time. It gives you your blood sugar reading specific to different times of the day under different circumstances. For example, before your meal which is a fasting reading, or after any meal is postprandial.

The readings are really useful and are used as a diagnostic tool to see whether you are moving from pre-diabetes to type 2 diabetes, or as a reflection of an improvement in your blood sugar levels. Each reading will show you how effective your exercise was or how well you have adjusted your eating plan to help lower your blood sugar level.The readings you get with your glucometer can help you manage your diabetes day by day or even hour by hour… it makes it less difficult for you to control your type 2 diabetes.

Show-off Your Results:

Keep a record of your test results and review it at each visit with your health care provider. When you have lost weight and your blood sugar levels are down to around 84 to 89 mg/dL (4.6 to 4.9 mmol/L), if you are taking anti-diabetic medications, your health care provider may trial you off your drugs.

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