How Many of You Stick Your Finger To Monitor Your Blood Sugar? / myLot

United States

December 29, 2025 4:02am CST

I'm not diabetic, but I'm pre-diabetic, so I monitor my blood sugar. Once a week I stick one of my fingers with a lancet and use the glucose monitor to see where my blood sugar situation stands. I used to have one of those spring-loaded devices that ejected the needle to poke my finger, but now I just manually take a lancet and jab myself. How do you do it? I alternate fingers and hands. This morning I hit pretty deep and bled a lot. But at least I didn't have to jab myself multiple times trying to get enough blood. Do you have scars on your fingers from years of jabbing yourself? How often do you check your blood sugar?

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@DaddyEvil (164611)

• United States

29 Dec

The doctor calls me diabetic even though my blood sugar is still in the pre-diabetic range. I stick my left thumb for the blood drop needed to check my blood sugar because it's the only finger I don't use to type with. I use the spring-loaded lancet to jab myself with. The spring-loaded lancet is pre-set for my thumb. I just bleed the one drop and I'm done. Nope, no scars even though I jab myself twice a day. I'm sorry you have scars from it.

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LooeyVille

@LooeyVille (42)

• United States

29 Dec

I don't know if I have scars or not - none on the outside, but I assumed the multiple stabs would cause scarring on the inside. Interesting about your thumb. I had always heard you can't use your thumb for blood sticks. I don't know why but that's what was in my head.

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@DaddyEvil (164611)

• United States

29 Dec

@LooeyVille It's not "recommended" but when I offer my thumb at the doctor's office, they accept it as the site for the jab. (It's not recommended because you can easily stab too deep and cause excessive bleeding.)

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Amber

@AmbiePam (109186)

• United States

29 Dec

I don’t have any problem with my blood sugar, thank goodness. That’s all I’d need. However, my dad is diabetic, so he has to do it although he doesn’t do it as often as he should.

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May2k8

@May2k8 (19497)

• Indonesia

29 Dec

I don't have any problems with blood sugar, when I last checked it was probably a bit low.

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Xavier Bage

@franxav (14357)

• India

29 Dec

Perhaps I too am a prediabetic though no one has told me so. I get my blood sugar test at two to three months interval. I call a blood sample collector. He takes the samples to a lab and gets the tests done. It's perhaps an old method but I'm comfortable with it.

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