Weird question time! This is the morning's silliness, I suspect. Relevant info: I have a CGM (on day 8 of 14) that's been pretty accurate when compared to my morning KM blood sticks... until this morning... Also, I am playing the "make a flat line" game; my CGM rarely goes over 95... The situation: This morning, before breakfast (which is coffee with cream), I did my usual KM blood tests. Since I only test once a day in the morning, and since I'm very right-handed, I usually just prick one of my left fingers for this purpose. I always wipe off the initial blood drop before testing. This morning, my glucose was reading pretty high (112); this was extra-weird because the CGM was reading 80 and I had eaten almost nothing yesterday (trapped at a swim meet in a place that was *so* hot). I checked again on the same hand and got another similar reading; and then I decided to make a hole in my right hand and check a third time. And that time the KM read glucose as 90 (and also read ketones as 0.8 higher than in previous readings). This is more in line with what I expected based on doing this daily for 6 weeks. The question: Would (or should) it really matter from which finger I extract the drops of blood?

Posted by Jenifer Anderson at 2023-11-19 15:12:26 UTC