Blood glucose monitoring

Pricking your finger every single day - and often more than once a day - is an important part of your diabetes management.

As someone living closely with diabetes, you have heard the diabetes healthcare team talk about the importance of blood glucose monitoring.

Every day, people living with diabetes use their blood glucose monitoring results to make self-management decisions. How accurate should your blood glucose monitor be? What do you need to know about blood glucose monitor accuracy?

If you are regularly checking your blood glucose levels, you can get the most out of your efforts by learning what the results mean.

Should you be measuring blood sugar levels throughout the day? While it’s true that people with diabetes should measure their blood sugar at regular intervals, there are some distinctions regarding how often to test.

Read about target blood glucose levels and how they vary across the course of a day.

First of all, how important is your glucose control early in your diabetes? The short answer is very. Is it easy? Not really.