Checklist for Diabetes Self-Management

Managing diabetes requires good self-discipline and regular visits to your doctor or diabetes care team. Following is a checklist for your diabetes care — what you or your doctor should be checking on a daily, every three–four monthly or annual basis.

Picking up complications early is key to managing your diabetes. The earlier you or your doctor realise a health problem exists, the earlier that problem can be addressed and managed. Some of the investigations included in the following list are required more frequently if being actively treated.

Daily:

• Blood glucose self-monitoring, at the following frequencies:

  
  
  
  

  • Before meals and bedtime for person with type 1 diabetes

    
    
  
  

  • Before breakfast and at least one to two additional times through the day, preferably two hours after meals for person with type 2 diabetes on tablets.

    
    
  
  

  • Once daily for person with stable type 2 diabetes

    
    
  
  

  • Before and one hour after meals for pregnant woman with type 1 diabetes or gestational diabetes

    
    
  
  
  
  



• Maintenance of healthy eating and exercise plan

  
  



• Medication (if required)

  
  

Three–four monthly:

• Blood pressure

  
  



• Blood test for HbA1c

  
  



• Foot exam if neuropathy is present

  
  



• Weight

  
  

Annually:

• Dental review

  
  



• Diet review

  
  



• Dilated eye exam by eye doctor

  
  



• Education review

  
  



• Fasting lipid profile

  
  



• Filament test for foot sensation

  
  



• Medication review

  
  



• Microalbuminuria measurement

  
  

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