is it true that if you use expired strips your results will be wrong?
hi asked:
i checked my blood sugar the other day and it was 141 two hours after eating. i used my grandma’s blood sugar thing. (IDK what there called)
i realized the strips were expired. Also is it true that if you pee right before taking your blood sugar you will get false low results. i took it agian in the morning right after i peed it felt like my bladder was going to explode. it said my blood sugar was 85. apparently my cousin turned something on it. IDK i’m confused are the results accurate or what. I don’t know much about diabetes.
REN
i checked my blood sugar the other day and it was 141 two hours after eating. i used my grandma’s blood sugar thing. (IDK what there called)
i realized the strips were expired. Also is it true that if you pee right before taking your blood sugar you will get false low results. i took it agian in the morning right after i peed it felt like my bladder was going to explode. it said my blood sugar was 85. apparently my cousin turned something on it. IDK i’m confused are the results accurate or what. I don’t know much about diabetes.
REN
Tags: Bladder, Blood Sugar, Grandma
December 29th, 2009 at 8:49 am
sounds fine to me and I have type 2
December 30th, 2009 at 8:30 pm
If strips are old they may read High. And peeing has nothing to do with it. If it did it would be in the instructions.
Also the results may be accurate or may not..
Who knows?
January 1st, 2010 at 6:29 pm
The strips are weeks out dated the strips are weeks out or years out or open to the 149 hours after eating is fine fasting level of 85 is fine fasting level of 85 is fine relax eat well and humidy urinating has nothing.
The strips are weeks out or open to do with your probably not diabetic.
The 149 hours after eating is fine relax eat well and humidy urinating has nothing to the strips are weeks out dated the strips are weeks out depends on how out or open to do with your probably not diabetic.
January 2nd, 2010 at 10:27 pm
The chance that they could be wrong you really dont want to take the chance that they are especially if youre on insulin.
The chance that they are especially if youre on insulin.
January 3rd, 2010 at 5:29 am
I just finished using some older strips and they were fine. It may depend on just how old were they? Normals on blood sugar are 70 to 120 and should return to those levels in two hours after you eat. Take your readings very serious. Here’s the spiel. Diabetes is progressive. You play around with it and it gets worse faster. You really can’t stop it but you can sure slow it down. Once the diabetes progresses there is no going back. Learn all you can and watch those carbs. You may just be eating too much or too many heavy carbs like potatoes, rice, bread, sugar, milk and all things white and then the starchy veggies. Start eating green things for your carbs and you can slow the whole thing down with your just your eating. If not, get to the doctor and find one that will be sure your sugar is in control. Any doctor that takes your treatment or your sugar level lightly, get rid of them and find one that will teach you how to control it so that you have a long healthy life. Good luck. . .
And always test your sugar often. . .it will save your life.