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GLUCOSE MONITORS, NOT CCM TYPES.

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George C.

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DOES ANYONE HAVE A RECOMMENDATION ON A TOP OF THE LINE GLUCOSE MONITOR THAT WOULD READ CLOSE TO WHAT YOUR DOCTOR'S OFFICE WOULD READ IN TERMS OF RESULTS.
 
THANKS FOR THAT. I'M CURRENTLY USING ONE CALLED, OXILINE. AND ANOTHER ONE FROM TELEDOC CALLED LIVONGO. THEY BOTH READ QUIT A BIT DIFFERENT FROM EACH OTHER AT TIMES.
 
George C. said:
WELL THANK YOU ANYWAY RACHOX,YOU'RE PROBABLY RIGHT. WAS ANY OF THEM CALLED ACCU CHECK? I'VE HEARD A LOT OF GOOD ABOUT THEM.
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I have heard of Accu Check, I think it is available in the U.K. but I’ve never used it, it’s not on my list as I try and keep suggestions to the cheaper ones. Some one here may have used the Accu Check so you may get some opinions.
 
@George C. I'm in Canada. I currently use Contour next One . The accuracy is well within the acceptable error range. The strip quality is at 100% with no dud strips. I would choose the same metre again if I had to get another one. I have also used the Accu check, but that was several years ago. The Accu was also a very good meter.
 
George C. said:
THANKS FOR THAT. I'M CURRENTLY USING ONE CALLED, OXILINE. AND ANOTHER ONE FROM TELEDOC CALLED LIVONGO. THEY BOTH READ QUIT A BIT DIFFERENT FROM EACH OTHER AT TIMES.
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In the UK at least glucose fingerprick meters have an allowable inaccuracy of up to 15%, 95% of the time. So a true value of 6.0mmol/l could show as anything betweem 5.1 and 6.9 mmol/l. For the US in mg/dl you might think of a true value of 100mg/dl showing as anywhere within a range 85-115 mg/dl.

I'd expect most readings to cluster around the true value, but you should expect variation. And one in 20 readings is allowed to be outside that +/-15% range, and still be acceptable in accuracy terms.

I recently had my HbA1c taken by my GP and their machine result was very far away from what I expected. I've been in normal BG range for five years now, so wasn't expecting the highest HbA1c result I've ever had. I challenged it, and they agreed to do a further blood draw which would be lab tested. Lab test confirmed that the GP machine was wrong. So two blood samples taken within minutes of each other produced results which were very different.
 
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