Does anyone know more about testing your blood sugars at home using needle free methods?

Question

I heard something about being able to test your sugar levels buy rubbing a special strip on your finger and that it reads the sugar in your sweat! Does anyone know more about this? I Failed my pregnancy diabeties testing and I'm HORRIFIED at the idea of using needles!!

Answer 1

I have never heard of anything that you're describing. Maybe you read about research into testing in the future? At this time there is no way to get around testing blood and the only way to test blood is to prick yourself. There continuous glucose monitors that have a sensor that is inserted just below the skin that reads the fluid there and is worn for several days at a time...but even those require calibration through finger sticks. You have no choice. I do not like sticking myself and I am sure I never will. Believe me, if there were a no evasive device on the market that I could get my hands on I would have it!!! I have use almost all the different glucose monitor/meters and lancet devices (the dreaded part). I recently got an Accu-chek Aviva. I like meter, it doesn't require much blood..which means you don't have to go in as deep with the lancet device...but what I like the most is the lancet device itself. It is by far the least painful device I have used. It's called the Multiclix, uses "drum" of six lancets that you never see and to get a fresh lancet all you do is twist the top of the device until you've used all the lancets in the drum, then you insert a new drum. It's possible you might need insulin, but then you may not. What's important is the health of your baby and high glucose levels can cause a lot of problems for both of you. I know you'll do whatever you have to do...just know that if you do have to take injections the needles and pen needles for insulin are nothing like those that you're probably used to seeing...and being stuck with. They're much shorter and much finer and most of the time you don't even feel them, honestly. The thought is so much worse than the actual injection. You'll be fine, don't worry.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

The way to test blood glucose is to get a sample to blood, not sweat. Sweat has a different composition to blood.

If you are talking about the little finger prick lancets as the needles. The best method I have found (and I think the way the most glucose tester meters use) is to hide a covered small needle in the machine, you press your finger against the place where the needle comes out. You then press a button which releases the lancet and then retracts it back. The sligth pain only lasts for a second, then you don't have to think about it.

Depending on how often you check you sugar, I suggest using a different finger each day.

You should never have to use insulin needles, but if your doctor recomends them, they don't hurt (and I'm not a diabetic, so never become accostumed to it) and the benefits to your baby are immesurable. If nothing else, wouldn't you want to do everything you can for yoru baby.

Answer 4

I don't know anything about a way to check blood sugar without a fingerstick, and even if you could, you would still probably have to inject insulin, so I'm not sure that you'll be able to get away from needles altogether even if there does turn out to be a way.
On the bright side, the needles used for subcutaneous insulin injections aren't much wider than a hair, they're almost completely painless, many people are very apprehensive about giving themselves injections and taking fingersticks when they start, but few people who have started it complain, it's one of those things that sounds scarier than it ends up being.

Answer 5

You can avoid the horrible practice of sticking yourself for a blood glucose measurement by simply tasting your urine.

That is how they did it in the olden' days when there were no test strips and meters.

After that, there were the urine chemistry sets where you drop a pill into a test tube of urine, observe a chemical reaction, and match the color to a scale to determine your bg. The tube would heat up to sun-like temperatures. The problem with this method is that real-time feedback correlation was poor due to a time differential in renal filtering. Those were the days.

Go ahead and get back to basics. You have our blessing.

There are some companies trying to develop noninvasive real-time feedback bg monitoring devices. These techniques involve monitoring reflected light scatter from biological tissue. However, progress in these areas is difficult due to individual biometries and associated moving correlations. It is difficult to manufacture custom tweaked units for everyone. Then that person's biometry will vary over time, requiring constant recalibration of the instrument.

Oh, one more thing. In a pinch, you CAN use a hypodermic needle to prick yourself for a bg test. I have done this before when I couldn't find my finger pricker device. You have to lay one hand flat on a surface and hold the needle with the other hand at the base of the needle. Use a firm, but not too deep, quick jab.

Hypodermic needles are also great for popping pimples and extremely long range sniper squirt guns.

Answer 6

OK - Get a grip and get over it - sorry but the finger prickers are tiny and you dont even see the needle. If you have to inject insulin again they do not hurt whatsoever, comes in a little pen and you can get someone else to do it for you - The thing that you should be HORRIFIED about is that high blood sugar can KILL OR SERIOUSLY DEFORM YOUR UNBORN CHILD - and that should have you grabbing for the needles RIGHT NOW

Answer 7

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Answer 8

I truthfully know of no other way to check your blood sugar but to needle test your finger or if your Lucky enough to have a blood meter that will check the blood from your forearm of wrist and that's the only way i know.

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Answer 10

Are you referring to insulin needles or those needle pens that you use to check your blood glucose level? Anyway, both are rather painless. Unless you have super hyper sensitive nerves. 8-)