Hate Checking your Blood Glucose in Public? Here’s a Tip!
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Your diabetes is your business and it should not be anyone else’s unless you want it to be. However, finding a private place to check your glucose can be difficult. Look for a quiet corner, or even a restroom stall if that is the only private place you can find. However, you may be surprised how few people even notice when you check your blood in public. Some of the new blood glucose monitors are smaller, quicker, and quieter, and that can help make the process less stressful. Finally, if there is no place at all where you would be comfortable checking your glucose while you are out, check just before you leave the house, and check again as soon as you get home. That way you’ll have at least some information for making decisions while you are out. But remember, having diabetes is nothing to be ashamed of, and you have the right to take care of yourself when and where you need to.
Rarely do I leave the house without one of my blood glucose monitors. If you’re out and about and you suddenly feel light headed, nauseaus or jittery, what would you do? Eat some sugar and hope you got the dosage right? No, you check your glucose and then take some OJ, sugar water or medication, wait ten minutes and check again.
The public doesn’t generally care when, how or where you check your blood glucose. I normally do it on my lap or right in front of me. It’s nota big production and hardly anyone notices.
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