Mon, Aug-04-03, 19:32
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Getting Healthy!
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Plan: General LC
Stats: 213/169/166
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Progress: 94%
Location: Tuscaloosa, AL, USA
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Originally Posted by kay3osu
hello,
now i am really confused. i have hypoglycemia BAD and i use the accucheck complete to measure my blood sugar. Is this number 10-12% higher than the reading I would get having my blood drawn? So, when I read 70, it may really be more like 61-63? Hope not!  |
If you bought your glucometer within the past 4 to 5 years, it should be plasma calibrated and therefore read on the same scale as that used by your doctor. Even though your doctor draws whole blood, the measurement his lab makes is on blood plasma.
And, if you have an old meter that is whole blood calibrated, it will read low not high. |