Accuracy of blood meters

Looks like your meter's working within the accepted margin of error. If I've got my sums right, that's an average of 5.15 recurring. Pretty good news.

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RPNKW said:

Sorry, meant "6 shots of"..... Novo rapid, I am obsessed with lantus given the number of pharmacies in the uk who never have it to hand, getting benylin is easier.

RPNKW

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That may be a local thing, check out your PCT for their formulary and you may find they use NPH because it's cheaper. Elsewhere where it is used widely you may not find this problem

Pharmacies should be able to get whatever you want the same day if you drop the prescription off in the morning, or at least they always have in my experience. The larger ones like large Boots shops etc tend to have most things too.
I've never found anywhere (except Boots, but I prefer to go to the little specialist pharmacists) that has enough of the right dose of Actos there and then, I've always had to go back to get the rest

regarding your post just this week l had problems with my meter which was giving me very high readings and intially my gp was adjusting my insulin in accordance with these l felt terrible for a week ,my gp then came to the conclusion my meter had been faulty ,as these high readings were going from 24.7 and down to 16. 2 within minutes ,l emailed meter company who supplied this and told them ,with the result l spent 1 hour on the phone answering a whole range of questions ,the outcome is the company now have to carry out an official report regarding this as its a medical device.and because my insulin was adjusted round those faulty readings causing me to be ill.the company were relly nice though and have gave me replacement meter free of charge ,and my diabetes nurse replaced the one l had .so now if l have any doubts l can do comparasons between both meter readings,the lady from the company told me the ratio between reading was 31.6 percent which was well over the 15 ,indicating a fault problem ,she said they work this out with the readings.hope this helps ,

Anne, I don't know which meter you're using, but mine (an Accu-Chek Aviva from Roche) comes with a couple of control solutions which allow you to check that it's working properly. Did your supplier offer anything like that?

hi thirsty regarding your question when l got my meter there was no control solution with it to allow me to check meter ,company has now issued me with some x

I recently had cause to doubt the accuracy of my Optium Xceed blood glucose meter so I conducted a
comparison test with another meter of exactly the same model.
Both meters were calibrated with the same calibration strip and both meters were checked with a Hi and
a Lo control solution. They were both shown to be well within specification.
I compared results with these meters by taking blood samples from the same site and at the same time.
The results were quite alarming as they showed variations in the readings of between 1% and 20%!
I thought at first that this was a result of careless blood sampling but no matter how meticulous I was with the sampling I still got wide variations between the two meters.
Has anybody else conducted similar experiments on these meters or any others?