By Rick Mendosa S omeone on the alt.support.diabetes newsgroup recently generated more heat than anyone else with her message.
Diabetics get treatment from their doctors.
They don't need this meter nonsense. To her husband, using a blood glucose meter is a sign of health fanaticism, she reports. Actually, as misguided as this man is, this is a good reminder that not everyone knows the benefits of tight control and how to get it. To get that tight control you have to know what your blood glucose levels are. Finger sticks with a blood glucose meter help in telling us how we are doing.