Since I don't take insulin, do I have to do all of that urine and blood sugar testing?
Absolutely. Even though you don't generally have a problem with low blood sugar, you do have one with high blood sugar. As you know, it's the high blood sugar that causes the damage. You have to know when it's high, so you can do something to bring it down exercise, change your diet, etc. When we first learned about home blood sugar testing, we thought it wouldn't be necessary for non insulin dependent diabetics. Urine tests, we thought, would do the job for them. We've since changed our minds. Home blood sugar testing is equally important for noninsulin takers. Most are older when they're diagnosed, and remember, the older you get, the higher goes your renal threshold. You might take a urine test when your blood sugar is, say, 215, and the test will tell you that your blood sugar is normal when in reality it's dangerously high. For example, we talked to the daugher of a diabetic woman who, according to her daughter, "loves to eat, especially at ...