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Blood Glucose Monitoring Smart Watches - Scam or not highly accurate

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GrahamRS

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I am Type 2 (Metformin, Dapagliflozin and weekly Mounjaro injections). Not great control atm but working on it .

I'm getting loads of adverts on Social Media about Smartwatches that can measure Blood sugar levels. (Not simply picking up the readings from a patch)
Having googled them It seems FDA in America is not recommending them saying they are not accurate but not saying they don't work at all,
Obviously a non invasive monitor would be marvelous and they are retailing at around £30-40.
If they would be accurate to within a couple of points I would be happy rather than pricking my finger. I might be happy to purchase one and monitor alongside pricking my finger. Has anyone tried them and if so what's the result?
 
Hi @GrahamRS ,
They are a waste of money.

Here's a thread on them, with a link to some articles by one of our members who tried them: https://www.diabetes.co.uk/forum/th...se-sugar-monitoring-watch.199820/post-2648047

It's also good to keep in mind that social media targets their advertising based on the things you click on, and even on the things you keep looking at for a longer time.
So you've basically taught the algorithm that you're interested in those watches, which is why you're getting loads of adverts on them.
 
Seen YouTube videos showing them to be a waste

Apple has been trying to add it for a few years now if with all their R&D budget can’t make it work how can some tiny Chinese company?
 
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