Thank you for your information and I'm sorry to hear you have so much trouble with the pain on testing with your hands. My hands are starting to get neuropathy but they don't hurt that bad yet.When I went to my endocrinologist she wanted to put me on a continuous glucose monitor. Medicare won't pay for it they also turn down the four strips a day they will only give me one strip a day. I'm going to use a 3-month supply to get the information for my endocrinologist and write it down on paper so she can get a better picture of my blood sugar. I sometimes tend to be low in the morning and in the afternoon it will be low but then at night time is can Skyrocket if I dont test before eating a snack I feel like I need ..probably because sometimes I eat the wrong things during the day. I'm trying really hard, I eat blueberries, I eat avocados, I try to eat spinach sometimes and salads. I eat Ezekiel 4:9 bread it has no flour and it's no preservative I really like it I toast it and put peanut butter on it. My A1C is not really the best gauge at what my glucose level is, up and down spikes, thanks for the advice about GoodRx I'll look into that. One thing that I do when I run out of my test strips from Medicare for my meter that they supplied ..I bought a $10 meter at CVS and I can get 25 strips for a little over $6 and I've gotten them free before by using some of the coupons from CVS God bless you I pray that I get to go to Loma Linda Medical University neuropathy Clinic as the neuropathy in my feet and legs is getting worse because they have had to raise my Gabapentin. I don't want to reach the limit.Loma Linda claims that they've had success rejuvenating dead nerves thanks again God bless you