Yorksman
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- Type of diabetes
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- Diet only
Home glucose meters are required to be within 20% of the true reading for 95% of the readings. In other words, 1 in 20 readings is likely to be way out.
Quality of capilliary blood sample is often an issue whilst skin contamination is also frequent.. Poor calibration of meter is yet another issue.
When I get readings higher than expected, I always do another test on another finger. Sometimes I do a third as well. Mostly you get to see some sort of pattern emerging.
See how it goes. It has happened to most of us at sometime or other. I even had an 'Out of Range' message once.
Quality of capilliary blood sample is often an issue whilst skin contamination is also frequent.. Poor calibration of meter is yet another issue.
When I get readings higher than expected, I always do another test on another finger. Sometimes I do a third as well. Mostly you get to see some sort of pattern emerging.
See how it goes. It has happened to most of us at sometime or other. I even had an 'Out of Range' message once.