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<blockquote data-quote="michaeldavid" data-source="post: 385007" data-attributes="member: 57211"><p>One might say that a pencil and paper is old-fashioned alongside a printing machine, or a needle and thread is old-fashioned alongside a modern sewing machine. (But 'outdated'? Really?!) So, you're some kind of engineer. And what would YOU use to leave a note out for the milkman? ... or to sew a button on your dress or shirt?</p><p></p><p>One might speak of 'reverse-Luddism': I've experienced precisely this form of unthinking prejudice expressed directly towards me by the leading professor at the diabetic centre I attend. And I've every reason to believe it's very common amongst medical professionals. (Otherwise, doctors would be prescribing the visually read strips more than they do - which, barring my own case, is not at all.) So it certainly doesn't surprise me that it infects the thinking of the diabetics they look after.</p><p></p><p>Okay, so there's no decimal point in the result one gets from the visually read strips. That doesn't make them inaccurate. And just because the result from a meter-read stick may contain a decimal point, that doesn't make the reading accurate. (You're supposed to be an engineer, so you must know that to be the case.)</p><p></p><p>There's a thread under this very section ('Blood Glucose Monitoring') entitled, 'Blood sugar testing machine': the thread concerns a machine called 'GlucoNexus'. There are pictures of the machine giving results one of which, very clearly, must be seriously inaccurate. (Indeed, both of the results pictured in the first posting may be inaccurate.) Moreover, unless you had some way to check the result that the machine delivers, you might never get to know that the result was inaccurate: it might already be too late - you might lose consciousness, or indeed you might even lose your life.</p><p></p><p>For anything under 7mmol/l, the results that the Betachek Visual strips deliver are very accurate, and thoroughly dependable. (If I want accuracy for anything above 7mmol/l, then I use the meter-read sticks.) Moreover, if the pad on which one places the drop of blood is contaminated, then one tends to get a smudgy result; so then I KNOW that the result is inaccurate. You never get that feedback on a false result from ANY machine.</p><p></p><p>My blood-sugar is stable because of what I eat (see my other postings, especially one I posted a few days ago under the thread entitled 'test strips' in the section 'Diabetes Soapbox - Have Your Say'), and also because I test my blood-sugar a lot.</p><p></p><p>Indeed, I test my blood-sugar 15-20 times per day. And naturally, I use a meter too - if I need to. But testing with the visually read strips works out to around 1/20 of the cost of the meter-read sticks. To use the meter when you don't need to is simply a waste of money. And if the money comes from the NHS, then that's a waste of everybody's resources.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="michaeldavid, post: 385007, member: 57211"] One might say that a pencil and paper is old-fashioned alongside a printing machine, or a needle and thread is old-fashioned alongside a modern sewing machine. (But 'outdated'? Really?!) So, you're some kind of engineer. And what would YOU use to leave a note out for the milkman? ... or to sew a button on your dress or shirt? One might speak of 'reverse-Luddism': I've experienced precisely this form of unthinking prejudice expressed directly towards me by the leading professor at the diabetic centre I attend. And I've every reason to believe it's very common amongst medical professionals. (Otherwise, doctors would be prescribing the visually read strips more than they do - which, barring my own case, is not at all.) So it certainly doesn't surprise me that it infects the thinking of the diabetics they look after. Okay, so there's no decimal point in the result one gets from the visually read strips. That doesn't make them inaccurate. And just because the result from a meter-read stick may contain a decimal point, that doesn't make the reading accurate. (You're supposed to be an engineer, so you must know that to be the case.) There's a thread under this very section ('Blood Glucose Monitoring') entitled, 'Blood sugar testing machine': the thread concerns a machine called 'GlucoNexus'. There are pictures of the machine giving results one of which, very clearly, must be seriously inaccurate. (Indeed, both of the results pictured in the first posting may be inaccurate.) Moreover, unless you had some way to check the result that the machine delivers, you might never get to know that the result was inaccurate: it might already be too late - you might lose consciousness, or indeed you might even lose your life. For anything under 7mmol/l, the results that the Betachek Visual strips deliver are very accurate, and thoroughly dependable. (If I want accuracy for anything above 7mmol/l, then I use the meter-read sticks.) Moreover, if the pad on which one places the drop of blood is contaminated, then one tends to get a smudgy result; so then I KNOW that the result is inaccurate. You never get that feedback on a false result from ANY machine. My blood-sugar is stable because of what I eat (see my other postings, especially one I posted a few days ago under the thread entitled 'test strips' in the section 'Diabetes Soapbox - Have Your Say'), and also because I test my blood-sugar a lot. Indeed, I test my blood-sugar 15-20 times per day. And naturally, I use a meter too - if I need to. But testing with the visually read strips works out to around 1/20 of the cost of the meter-read sticks. To use the meter when you don't need to is simply a waste of money. And if the money comes from the NHS, then that's a waste of everybody's resources. [/QUOTE]
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