We hope the above meter comparing the viscosity of your cars motor oil with the sugared up stickiness of your diabetic affected blood helps explain blood glucose levels and the need for testing.

Just why your blood sugar (glucose) percentage is important, like oil is crucial to flow readily to prevent damage, so is your bloods flow ability crucial.

Example:

If a nerve controlling your heart beat does not get enough blood flow through tiny veins, due to being too thick a blood viscosity to survive, when the nerve dies, then your heart stops.

Explanation of what an A1c test is:

A standard every three month diabetes lab test ordered by your doctor and used to determine by most, your progress in controlling your blood sugar levels percentages.

It actually is a blood "stickiness" measure since Sugar sticks to your hemoglobin red blood cells over time circulating in your blood stream and these cells live about three months.

Thus this lab test is recommended every three months to sort of keep a score card on how you are doing in controlling your blood sugar levels.

The normal range is 4-6 % blood sugar "stickiness". Some people with poorly controlled diabetes, its as much as 10.% or above,

To be classed as controlled blood sugar, means you are always under 7%. Preferably under 6 or getting closer all the time.

This being tested every (3 months), helps because the reading does not fluctuate around and drive you crazy as much as the finger stick tests bounce all over the place.

With the finger prick test the idea is to keep your blood glucose levels near the range of 70 to 120 mg/dl before meals (considered normal) and preferably under 140 mg/dl at 2 hours after eating. That if everything went perfect.

Note: You will often have a high reading on arising due to liver supplied sugar in the blood stream to cover your morning get going.

The finger prick test tells you to a degree what you are doing right or wrong by giving you some what of a window to be observing the result.

This needs a lot of explanation what you are observing which we wont tackle here and it still wont be an exact science.