difference in test strips
Any body have any input on the difference in test strips? I had been using a
walmart brand relion ultima and a friend gave me an ultra one touch with
strips. I used that for months. When those ran out I went back to my relion
meter and my BS started going from the 80’s in the morning to upper 90’s and
over 100. I broke down and bought another packet of ultra one touch strips
and the walmart meter always reads 10 - 20 points higher!
Any one else have this experience?
belinda
June 30th, 2007 at 7:36 am
I use the freestyle flash - and as long as I use the proper lancet
setting anmd not one thagt makes a blood flood - it reads VERY accurately.
I did a lot of testing to see what was accurate. This meter is my number
one pick. I need something I can rely on. The onyl time it gives a wrong
(too high) reading, is if I use too much blood and flood it.
The lancet device has 4 settings for how much of a prick a person
needs. Me personal correct setting is 2, for forearm use. So as long as
I do that - perfect results.
(I tried other meters - and they are in my view not worth using!)
The only other one that gave reasonably reliable results was the old
dinosaur thing that requires about a pint of blood per reading - fingers
only - and takes a week to tell you the reading - and wastes half the
strips as they shoot out too fast and don’t go back in - so it is no go
for those reasons in my book - but that was the Bayer thing that uses a
circle of test strip things. Ascencia breeze - can’t pay me to use it
any more.
Get a freestyle flash and LEARN your prick setting by experimenting.
It’s a nice meter:-)
Namaste,
IRene
June 30th, 2007 at 3:33 pm
age of strips matters
Any one else have this experience?
belinda
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July 4th, 2007 at 3:27 pm
Kirk McLoren wrote:
> age of strips matters
With which brand?
I use freestyle strips, they come packaged in a nice sealed container
and I use some that are over a year old before I open them - and I
sometiems take many months to go through a set. No problems with accuracy.
…..Irene