{"id":619198,"date":"2010-01-03T19:58:24","date_gmt":"2010-01-04T00:58:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.diabetesforums.com\/forum\/monitoring\/47213-i-suck-monitoring-help.html"},"modified":"2010-01-03T19:58:24","modified_gmt":"2010-01-04T00:58:24","slug":"i-suck-at-monitoring-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/619198","title":{"rendered":"I suck at monitoring-HELP"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Hey guys-<\/p>\n<p>I am recently diagnosed pre-diabetic.  Prescribed Met.  I was really sick for awhile and suspected my blood sugar was too low.<\/p>\n<p>After scouring these forums and others.  Everyone recommends TESTING.  Fasting, pre-meal, post meal etc.  Everyone says test, test, test.<\/p>\n<p>So, I went to Target and got an Easy Pro (cheapest)  took me a while to figure it out and I wasted tons and tons of strips.  One try in 8 I would get a reading.  I figured it must be the meter.<\/p>\n<p>So, I went and bought an ultra-mini.  Same thing.  I just can&#8217;t get a good drop of blood for the meter to take.  Er 5.  I bought a the Ultra Mini on Sat and I&#8217;ve already wasted about 25 strips!  AND my forearms and inner wrists are bruised.  I try an average of 6 times before I get a reading.  Is this normal?  <\/p>\n<p>How can I improve?<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s the DEAL?:mad: \ud83d\ude41<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey guys- I am recently diagnosed pre-diabetic. Prescribed Met. I was really sick for awhile and suspected my blood sugar was too low. After scouring these forums and others. Everyone recommends TESTING. Fasting, pre-meal, post meal etc. Everyone says test, test, test. So, I went to Target and got an Easy Pro (cheapest) took me [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-619198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2B54","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=619198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=619198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=619198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=619198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}