New blood glucose monitor

Everything is either going wireless or getting implanted. Some are doing both.

But I’m here today to show you this story, about a new blood glucose monitoring device. It’s a tiny implanted piece of metal. Put a magnetic device up next to it, and it’ll read your blood sugar lever by the vibration frequency of the implant. Click through for the more technical explanation.

If it means having to prick my finger tips six less times a day, I’m willing to try an implant.


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3 Responses to “New blood glucose monitor”

  1. John C.
    29. September 2005 at 12:39

    I’m curious, if you feel like sharing. How does that work, exactly? Do you have lots of little scars, does the skin just get tougher, what? It seems like that much pricking must have some kind of long-term effect.

  2. Soon
    30. September 2005 at 02:45

    Skin doesn’t quite toughen to the repeated prickings. Healing is slower for diabetics. Ask a diabetic to squeeze their finger tips and you’ll see little balls of of blood pooling from the many pricks. Same thing for the gut.

  3. Augie De Blieck Jr.
    30. September 2005 at 09:08

    Well, I don’t quite have the blood pools forming…

    But, yeah, the fingertips heal over very quickly. Every now and then you’ll get a bleeder that just won’t stop, but I haven’t had one of those in months now. (I also like the ones that, when pricked, send a jet stream shooting out. Haven’t had one of those in months, either.)

    The fingers I use most often for testing are maybe slightly less sensitive at the tips where I prick them, but I’m not numb there or anything. The biggest trick is to check your blood sugar from the sides of the finger tips, and not on the pads. The pads are sensitive and take longer to heal.

    Each finger has a few itty bitty black dots on them from the repeated shots. You don’t see them unless you look for them, though. It feels a little harder in that area (scar tissue, I guess?) than elsewhere on the finger, too. But, again, it’s nothing that impacts my ability for fine motor control, gripping things, feeling things, etc.