As a diabetic you understand the pain and annoyance of testing your blood. An innovative product called Ascensia Glucose monitor has entered the market. The testing strips will take a tiny amount of blood, and that is all it needs. You will need fewer strips in the long run, because you are not wasting your strips with an overabundance of blood on it. You also won't have the associated pain in your fingertips, which is the biggest comfort to most patients. The numbing feeling can be very uncomfortable, and you will find that you have less fine control over things with the older method of testing. The sipping action of the test strips that the Ascensia Elite means less deep punctures, less blood, less mess, and less hassles. This translates into a desire to take your blood sugar as often as you truly need it. The other feature, which makes this testing monitor the best there is, is the fact that it needs such a minute amount of blood allows you to change locations of where you will draw blood since it needs so little in the first place. Imagine you can now test on your palms, and on your abdomen. This is unprecedented and a great benefit to you as it will lead to less finger pain. It means you have greater control over your disease, and your life will have much better quality.  Both you and your physician will be pleased that your blood glucose monitoring is more accurate because you tend to be more agreeable to using it at all the necessary times to keep track of your sugar levels.