On Thu, 21 Apr 2011 22:43:09 -0400, "Josepi"
wrote:

Anybody got a Canadian equivalent of those sugar readings? Ou scales go from
about 4.0 to 20-30.


Funny the Canucks always use different scales for all medical reading than
the US does.

Must have something to do with the weird gallon they use...LOL


It's the Yanks that use strange numbers. When the rest of the world
still used gallons, it was only the USA that used the "short" gallon -
and now that the rest of the world has gone metric, it is basically
ONLY the US that is holding out using their "weird" measurement
system.

The USA uses mg/dl, the rest of the world uses mmol - and to convert
mg/dl to mmol you devide by 18. To convert mmol to mg/dl you multiply
by 18

mmol is milimole per liter.
mg/dl is .01 grams per liter.

Approx .18 grams/mmol

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"Michael A. Terrell" wrote in message
...
My back is fine. It was diabetes and other problems that sidelined
me. The pain I have is Diabetic neuropathy in my hands which has
nothing to do with lifting and moving heavy things for decades. I can
still lift and move heavy things, but I tire faster than I did 40+ years
ago. The diabetes causes my blood sugar leves to be unstable, wich can
drop like a rock and make me very dizzy. I've had it drop from 224 to
79 in les than two hours.