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Different results on different kits

khovell

khovell

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Hey guys

So I'm wondering if anyone else has the same experience as me. I have 2 different BG kits and I get wildly different results from each of them. My fasting BG this morning was 10.2 on 1 (true you), and 12 on the other (Bayer contour next USB). I'm now not sure which kit to use, which is more accurate! Any suggestions??
 
I would say they are both within an acceptable tolerance.....

you should try and use just one meter though and tweak your medication in sync with it....
 
Every meter has a 15% variable allowance - so your results are within that tolerance, and even blood drops have some variability even from the same prick.

A man with one watch knows the time, a man with two watches is never quite sure. :D
 
I use the contour next one and the contour USB and find them great although I have to fund the strips myself as the GP practice switched all of us to the True You meters. I found the True You to be a nuisance in that you can't log carbs or insulin nor meal markers properly. The next one is brilliant and I would recommend it to anyone. I also found the True You to be a bit of a pest as it constantly changed dates on me and didn't always keep the battery door closed.
 
You also need to know that as your blood circulates the amount of glucose in it will change too, so you're not necessarily going to get the same result from different drops of blood at slightly different times even with the same meter, and this together with the slight variations you may get from the different metes are normal. Look insread for patterns and trends over time rather than individual figures. And if any result on either meter is significantly higher (or lower) than you'd expect from what you've eaten, etc, then it's certainly worth (a) washing hands and re-testing, and (b) thinking hard about anything else that might cause an odd reading - exercise, stress (both good and bad), pain, illness... can all affect our glucose levels.

I've mainly used Contour meters, first the XT and currently the Next, and have found both very good at recording data and trends for me and have both been quite consistent in their levels of accuracy.

Robbity
 
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