Checking your Sugar levels- frequency

The American Diabetes Association recommends testing your blood sugar at least three times a day if you need multiple daily insulin injections. But for the rest of those with type 2 diabetes, testing frequency should be "dictated by the particular needs and goals of the patients," the ADA says.

That means that frequent testing is clearly necessarily for some people with type 2 diabetes and all type 1 diabetics who take multiple daily insulin injections also  need to monitor blood sugar frequently.

Some studies suggest that frequent monitoring is not always helpful for people with type 2 diabetes. But that research is still being debated. Your doctor or diabetes educator can help you determine how often and when you should be testing. The other factors that needs to be taken into consideration when you need to check your sugar levels are :

Medication: Some classes of oral drugs can cause hypoglycemia or low blood sugar, so you may need to test more often.  Changes: If you've just been diagnosed with diabetes, started on a new medication, added a new type of food, or recently changed some other factor (for example, you have gained or lost weight, or are exercising more or less often), then you should test more frequently.