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Glucose monitor problems

NaziaB

NaziaB

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Hi guys, Nazia here!

As you guys know by now I'm working on my business proposal.

I was wondering about what kind of problems people have with their glucose monitors? So far I have researched these problems with a glucose monitor:

- Fear of needles which can stop diabetics from doing third testing
- Forgetting to take their kit with them outside
- Forgetting to check blood sugar levels generally
- Glucose monitor taking up space in handbags and bags
- The whole process of checking blood sugar levels can be long
- Monitoring serves as an opportunity for friends and family to bother you (they ask questions, etc.)
- Monitoring can be inconvenient
- Expiration of test strips
- Test strips not being fully inserted so having to do the whole process again
- Temperature
- Contamination
- Low battery
- Not enough blood has been applied/having to squeeze fingers because no blood is flowing
- Inaccuracy (May lead to (no) false alarms?)

I was wondering are these the sort of problems people do have and also what other problems do people have with their glucose monitors that I am missing?

Thank you very much for your responses! :)
 
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Many people are dismayed to find that although the monitor reads within its legal limit of accuracy it is invariably reading high. I have yet to find one that reads low but in either case people have to "learn to live with it".

A possible problem can occur with a high reading meter in that it might indicate that you are not hypo when you are.
 
Can't think of anything wrong with my monitor. I tended to not monitor a lot and guess my insulin intake depending on the food I was going to eat. I only really tested when I felt high/low.

I test all the time now, as I'm doing LCHF.

My monitor is a Freestyle InsuLinx
 
Squire Fulwood said:
Many people are dismayed to find that although the monitor reads within its legal limit of accuracy it is invariably reading high. I have yet to find one that reads low but in either case people have to "learn to live with it".

A possible problem can occur with a high reading meter in that it might indicate that you are not hypo when you are.
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So inaccuracies of results and (no) false alarms? Ok, thanks :)
 
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