My bf and I had a cool doctor who knew we both check our blood sugar. My bf is a type 2 diabetic and checks a few times a day. I have other issues affecting mine. He prescribed us the continuous ones to try.
They were awful. For both of us the numbers were wildly different from the finger prick. I guess people don't check they just trust the device. They were anywhere from 50 to 200 points off over half the time. We both kept lists. It was crazy. I have high fasting blood sugar that drops when I eat and he has regular beetus type highs and lows. His would say he was in the 40s when he was 130. Mine would say I was 300 when I was 104. It was insane. It almost felt like it was picking random numbers. We went through the whole pack and continued regular testing just to see if it was a bad sensor and we even swapped devices and sensors.
When we told the doc and showed him the lists, he said he had never heard of that and we must be doing something wrong. I promise we weren't. I asked if anyone had kept track with the prick method with it. He asked why they would do that. Sigh. So who knows how accurate those things really are.
Sure it could have been two packs out of a bad batch, but if we had blindly trusted it, it could have been dangerous.
“You must be doing something wrong” “Why would anyone do a prick test and verify this safe and secure device I get paid to prescribe”
Fucking trust the God damn science goy.
I asked if anyone had kept track with the prick method with it. He asked why they would do that.
I’m sorry to hear your doctor is mentally retarded. It must have been hard finding that out.
I knew. I liked him because I could ask him to do stuff and he would make insurance cover it. If I wanted bloodwork or metformin or whatever, he was cool with it as long as my justifications made sense to him. I'd bring research papers and he'd make up ailments so I could get drugs that my insurance wouldn't cover because they were off label uses. But he moved a couple hours away and is at a different kind of practice so I'm stuck finding a new one.
I wish I didn't need one at all but buying prescription drugs from India can be hit or miss. At least he renewed my scripts for a year lol.
That is insane how off they can be. I would sure as hell never trust one after results like that. I would maybe consider having it (if you found a more accurate one) as a over time thing to track all day but I would know that its not very close. Its more like "you are low or high" without meaningful numbers.
I see people use them to test foods and how the affect their blood sugar in YouTube and they look reasonable. But they always show the graph and don't check with a finger prick now and again. The graphs for us looked okay if you blurred your eyes and didn't look at the numbers but it was still way off from the finger pricking.
I don't prick much anymore because my numbers were so stable. Messed up but stable. I'm trying to fix some other issues so maybe I a couple of weeks I'll pull the glucose meter out again, but even with the ease of the continuous (it was also expensive even with fancy insurance coving a lot of it), I wont bother asking about one again. I can just poke a few times a day. You do get pretty used to it, even if your fingers look weird up close.