Blood Sugar Testing

Why self-test blood glucose levels?

Blood sugar testing enables you to see how certain foods, activities, and situations may impact your blood glucose levels. It can also help you and your diabetes care team evaluate how effective, or ineffective, a new treatment routine or change in blood sugar medication is. For people who take insulin, blood sugar testing allows for more accurate dosage adjustments.

The ADA suggests that people taking multiple insulin injections or using insulin pump therapy should test three or more times each day; this includes those with type 1 diabetes, some pregnant women with diabetes, and people with type 2 diabetes who take multiple injections of insulin daily. There is no official recommendation for blood sugar testing frequency for those with type 2 diabetes who are on oral medication or who control their diabetes through diet and exercise only; however the ADA does state self-monitoring of blood glucose may be appropriate in order to achieve blood glucose targets.¹

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