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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CantThinkOfAUsername" data-source="post: 198034" data-attributes="member: 34757">The GlucoRX Nexus, which is fairly new has quite cheaply priced strips. I have been using a One Touch Ultra for a long time but my GP gave me a GlucoRX Nexus because she wanted me to switch to it as it will save the practice quite a bit of money on every carton I have. They are about £12 for 50 strips compared with around £20 for strips for the One Touch Ultra, so a big saving.I had some doubts about them after reading about the previous GlucoRx meter and it's inaccuracy. I have done some comparison tests against the One Touch Ultra using blood from the same sample and the results are almost identical at normal blood sugars and are slightly higher than the OTU when with higher blood sugars of around 11/12. I have tested the OTU against my hospitals results in the past from the same sample and it did tend to read about 10% lower so the Nexus could be closer to the true value. I will have to test it against the Hospitals results on Thursday, when I go for a checkup.One downside to the Nexus is that it's usable temperature range is more limited than the OTU, which is my main gripe.Why are people having to pay for strips? Can you not get them from your doctor?</blockquote>

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