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04-20-2011, 05:23 PM

I would highly recommend talking to your doctor in person. It could possibly be that your blood is too thick for you to get any blood out. You may need to be on a blood thinner or even 1 aspirin a day as I have been told that it also helps in thinning out your blood.

I certainly am no doctor but that is the only thing I can think of. I know my blood tends to be thick quite often and drs have trouble drawing blood from me sometimes because of it.

So just check that out and I am sorry I could not be of further assistance. Also make sure you are poking in the right spots such as kind of on the tip of your finger. It always works for me there. And occasionally i have to push the stick thing down like into my finger kind of before i push the button to release the pricker as I call it.

Hope you figure something out soon.

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Originally Posted by Andrew, Jr.

I am trying to get blood out of my fingers for the finger stick - glucose testing. I can't. Nothing. I "milk" my fingers - nothing. I run warm water over them. Nothing. So I changed up, and I got a AccurCheck lancet. It lets you lance your hands, forearms, legs, and so on. Well, it works very well, but no blood will come out. So I have been using my toes. I called my doc and she read me the riot act. I am back to the beginning. Any ideas? Yes, I am using the highest no. for the deepest cut.

My one forearm is very scarred up from where I tried to lance it before. I have tried to cover up the scars with lotion to try to heal the wounds, but nothing seems to work on that either. I am using Neosporin now. But the scars are still there. And my fingers are callased.