Alternate testing sites

[Gemstone]

Do you use them?

To give a well earned rest to my fingers from time to time I test near the thumb as shown in my Freestyle booklet. Even though it's not painful at all, it leaves bruises and puncture wounds even at the lower setting. I change the lancet more often to avoid that but it does show anyway. I do it only for one or two days and let the wounds heal before using those places again.

Gemstone

[Anita]

I wonder - in the past two years there have been stories about a testing kit that will test you without puncturing at all.
Anyone knows what's up with that?

[juliedevos]

THey do exist. Although they cost about 10k and they are not portable. They are the size of a small computer. So they arent really all that useful. Unless you have boatloads of money and want a new toy.

Hopefully soon they will come out with a smaller more affordable one.

[Anita]

Do you know how do they work?
I've heard stories that sounds like SF, as testing with a light beem through the skin and other funny stuff. Can that be true?

[juliedevos]

Not too sure how they work. I do know its a laser beam that shines through the skin. I would imagine the technology is similar to the way that blood oxygen saturation is taken. You know that little device that you clamp onto the tip of your index finger.

I have a feeling it doesnt directly read your bg level but through a light absorbtion rate or something can then tell you what your bg level is.

I found a site that shows the device
http://www.diabetes123.com/d_06_e10.htm

Check it out...
Julie

[sweet-tooth]

I've read somewhere they are developing contact lenses for measuring bg by looking into a hand held device -- far out

[Anita]

Are those tools accurate?
What if I'm sweeting or just had a cream on my finger - it would tell me I'm already dead...