blood glucose monitor

  1. N

    Freestyle libre test strips

    Anyone have any ideas or know of smallish tubs to put my freestyle libre test strips in. I found it so much easier carrying around my meter ect. When the strips were in tubs rather than individual packages so am hoping to find a tub or container or something to put them in ( even if I leave them...
  2. AK2018

    Diabetes and Visual Impairment: A Barrier Free Blood Glucose Meter

    Hi everyone :) I'm a final year Product Design Engineering student at Edinburgh Napier University. I am designing a blood glucose meter for my honours project and I need your help! I'm passionate about inclusive design and I want to design a blood glucose meter that is easier to use for...
  3. Snichy

    Testing Blood Levels

    Hi, I am newly diagnosed T2 and just started my new life on a low carb diet within the last week or so. Been taking 1 x 500g Metformin per day but GP says to up it to 3 x 500mg per day from this week. Prior to 2 weeks ago my diet was high fat, high sugar, sedentary lifestyle and basically...
  4. H

    Is blood sugar reason of my weight loss

    Hi Everyone, I was first diagnosed with blood sugar in feburary 2017 when my sugar levels came 365 first time. I took medicine for one month and then it drastically came down as i was also maintaining my diet. After feburary to august 2017 evertime my blood sugar level remained 140 after meal...
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    Besy Blood Monitor suggestions

    I've recently had my BG monitor changed from a Freestyle Lite to a Accu-check Performa Nano as my old monitor is apparently being phased out. However the Accucheck one needs a big drop of blood compared to my old one and needs it all in one go whereas my old machine gave me 30 seconds to get...
  6. paul.mc

    What BG Tester and Why

    Links would be good...:-) Just been diagnosed T2 and started a low carb diet. I'd like to get an accurate BG tester to educate myself on what foods or mixtures are best for myself, etc... etc. I read on here that most of you use the "SD Codefree BG Monitoring system" from Amazon. But after...
  7. bennycrock

    Freestyle Libre

    Hi, was wondering if someone could help me. My wife and I are both T1 and we finally decided to order the freestyle Libre last Thursday. There was a lack of communication between us and we ended up buying 3. I rang to cancel 1 but they said it was already processed and that I would need to...
  8. N

    meters with integrated usb

    Just done some PC upgrading and discovered that nearly a year after Windows 10 launched, my Accu-chek 360 software is not compatible with it. The Accu-chek careline say "We are expecting a Microsoft Windows 10 compatible version of the Accu-Chek 360° software to be available soon" without...