Glucose measurement for noobs

Hi there. After watching https://quantifiedself.com/show-and-tell/?project=1121 I’ve become interested in measuring my glucose.
I’m not diabetic so all this is new to me.
Local shop has good reviews for https://www.ceneo.pl/6776120#tab=reviews such glucometer. Reviews mention it has USB port for downloading the data - that grabbed my attention.
I do not, however know what format it will be in and how do I upload it to openhumans. There are couple of integrations mentioning diabetes but I have no idea where to start.
Help? :wink:

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Hey, it’s great to see the interest in this! Together with @MichaelR I’m interested in glucose monitoring as well, see our thread here. Steven Jonas has written a good post about options at the Quantified Self.

Both Michael & I have used the Freestyle Libre sensors. The upside: they give (somewhat) continuous data for around 14 days and the data can be easily read out with a smartphone that can read NFC, the data can be downloaded from the Libre cloud app as a simple spreadsheet. The downside: A single sensor for 14 day usage is rather expensive (~60 EUR) and might not be easily available in your place of the world.

For uploading the data: If the device you found gives you a simple spreadsheet, you can upload it through https://upload.openhumans.org/, which has a specific datatype for glucose monitoring data. But to be honest I wouldn’t worry about the uploading too much at this point, but rather at finding a glucose testing device that works for you and gives data in a format you can use :slight_smile:

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