Living with Diabetes and Lapband

Everyone is passing on DLife's tip of using a Clinistix or Diastix urine glucose test strips to test whether or not a drink is diet or not.

Well, those aren't on my list to carry.

However, I do carry a blood glucose monitor and use mine to test drinks. If you don't want to download a "false" reading -- hit the calibrate button when you do and it won't be included on your download.

I usually end up doing it about once a month.

I guess the thing next thing to check is the cost of those test strips versus blood glucose strips. However, in my case since the insurance covers a sufficient supply, the glucose test strips are cheaper.