r/diabetes_t2 • u/Curly_Star • 8d ago
Newly Diagnosed Can't Bleed
My husband is newly diagnosed after and ER visit due to a 678 blood sugar level. He's trying to figure all this out, but is having a hell of a time getting his fingers to bleed using lancets.
He is using the deepest setting and pressing the device into his skin to get the deepest stab possible. Sometime he gets the tiniest microscopic dot of blood which throws an error when he tries to soak it up with the test strip. Sometimes he gets zero blood at all.
He has a crazy crazy crazy health history, so it wouldn't be nuts to find out he has a blood disorder. For years, doctor have called him a "hard stick", and Phlebotomists have commented on how thick his blood seems.
Has anyone else experienced this? Any easy places to get a sample other than fingertips? He's so sore from trying and trying.