{"id":167080,"date":"2010-01-11T18:28:02","date_gmt":"2010-01-11T23:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.diabetesforums.com\/forum\/monitoring\/47514-help-cut-down-steps.html"},"modified":"2010-01-11T18:28:02","modified_gmt":"2010-01-11T23:28:02","slug":"help-cut-down-steps-it-takes-to-check-sugar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/167080","title":{"rendered":"Help CUT DOWN steps it takes to check sugar"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>I am a senior at the United Nations International School and have Type 1 Diabetes since April 2009.  For my senior project, I am developing a glucose meter case.  My aim is not only to create a pouch that will reduce the steps and time of testing, increasing the convenience, but to also make it easier to do \u0093on the move\u0094 and in unlikely situations and places.<br \/>\nIf you could answer a couple questions that would help me out tremendously, thank you!<\/p>\n<p>You do not have to answer all the questions, but the more the better!<\/p>\n<p>1) Name:  <br \/>\n2) Email:<\/p>\n<p>3) Date of diagnosis: <br \/>\n4) Do you have Type 1 or Type 2 Diabetes \u0096 or other?<br \/>\n5) Do you use insulin injections or the pump? \u0096 or are you not on insulin? (T2)\t<\/p>\n<p>6) What glucose monitor do you currently use?<br \/>\n7) Have you used others in the past?  If so, which one\/s? <\/p>\n<p>8) Which has worked best for you and why?<br \/>\n9) Which has caused the least hassle overall and why?<br \/>\n(including its case design and necessities sold separately such as test strips)<\/p>\n<p>10) When you\u0092re feeling especially tired of it all, do you sometimes neglect to replace the pricker, clean the surface of your skin before testing, and\/or not test all together before eating?  Do you think if steps were cut down\/the process was subtler, you would pay more attention to doing it properly every time? <\/p>\n<p>11) What is the worst thing about checking your blood sugar? <br \/>\n(Examples: the embarrassment of taking it out in public, the pain of the prick, the hassle of it all, etc)<\/p>\n<p>12) In what situations\/places is it specifically a hassle to check your blood sugar? (Ex: Sports, temperature, rain)<\/p>\n<p>13) How do you record your sugar levels, insulin intake and food consumption?<br \/>\nA. In a notebook or sheet<br \/>\nB. Electronically (through what device?)<br \/>\nC. I don\u0092t record anything<br \/>\nD. I only record when my numbers are out of range<br \/>\nE. I rarely record my numbers<\/p>\n<p>14) Additional comments\/suggestions:<br \/>\nDescribe your ideal case.  What would\/n\u0092t it have?  What aspects are most important and\/or are most annoying?<br \/>\nWhat part of the process is most consuming or sometimes complicated to do while on the move?<br \/>\n(Examples: recording the numbers, throwing out the trash, finding sharps container, alcohol swabs, filling the sterile pads)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am a senior at the United Nations International School and have Type 1 Diabetes since April 2009. For my senior project, I am developing a glucose meter case. My aim is not only to create a pouch that will reduce the steps and time of testing, increasing the convenience, but to also make it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-167080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167080\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}