{"id":2368,"date":"2005-12-16T19:01:34","date_gmt":"2005-12-16T19:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/how-often-shoul\/"},"modified":"2005-12-16T19:01:34","modified_gmt":"2005-12-16T19:01:34","slug":"how-often-shoul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/how-often-shoul\/","title":{"rendered":"How often should you test?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Diabetes - How Frequently Should You Test?\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.healthcentral.com\/diabetes\/david-mendosa\/1370-2005-11-18\">Diabetes &#8211; How Frequently Should You Test?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>My primary care physician and I went around and around on this, and I finally solved the problem by going to a endo who is a pump expert.<\/p>\n<p>If you look at my logs, I tend to test 6-12 times a day.  The 6 is on the way low side.  I&#8217;m having a bad day if I am testing 12.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s my schedule.<\/p>\n<p>I always test first thing in the morning.  That&#8217;s going to tell me how I did the day before, and tell me how today is going to go.  If I am high, I screwed up yesterday.  Also, I&#8217;ll have high blood sugars all day.<\/p>\n<p>I test 2 hours after each meal, that way, I can adjust any dosage that I was off on, and I often test before my meals &#8212; that&#8217;s often 2 hours after the last correction.<\/p>\n<p>I tend to test if I am driving and I haven&#8217;t eaten recently &#8212; that&#8217;s usually right after school.  I also try to test before I go to bed.<\/p>\n<p>If I haven&#8217;t eaten recently, I will also test during exercise, and sometimes after, just to make sure I&#8217;m not going too low.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure my phamarcy service would prefer I tested less, but they haven&#8217;t given me a problem over it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Diabetes &#8211; How Frequently Should You Test? My primary care physician and I went around and around on this, and I finally solved the problem by going to a endo who is a pump expert. If you look at my logs, I tend to test 6-12 times a day. The 6 is on the way [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diabetic-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2368\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}