Oooh tried the little finger today & worked a treat but man its hurting now, so looks like I can use ring finger, sometimes index & the little 1 if I'm feeling brave... but only on the left hand cause the right hand doesn't seem to play the game at all. This afternoon the reading was 5.9 I had a fritata for dinner with some veg & a couple serves of baked beans, just used 1 small potato in the fritata. Sadly I haven't been able to get a reading tonight, tried all my fingers & couldn't get any of them to bleed enough, I tried rubbing them, sitting on them to warm them up & dangling my arm down for a few mins before. I was getting really stressed & then I just thought s*d it, I'm doing the diet, so far none of my reads have gone thru the roof & the stress of all this is probably worse for me & her then any bl**dy sugar read!!!!!!!! I'll try again on Fri but I'm pretty sure things are ok. Do they retest you at all or just trust the figures you provide? Just wondered if there is a double check at any time just to make sure you are doing things right.

Mak I def only use sides of fingers, seems to hurt less there. Feeling a bit of a failure but I don't think its worth getting upset about this, I've not had any weight gain in last 7 weeks so she is hardly a bloater , at least at this stage anyway!