INCORRECT reading with KENETIC WELLBEING

[wannaknow]

INCORRECT reading with KENETIC WELLBEING

Has anyone had or has problems with Kinetik Wellbeing Blood Glucose Monitoring System - in Association with St John Ambulance?

I feel disappointed, I bought already two Kinetik Wellbeing Blood Glucose devices ( as thought the first was faulty) and none of them gives me the incorrect readings, the company does not even reply and doesn not want to hear about it once you paid.

The readings make no sense like 156, then, 107, then 180, then 86, every morning no conclusive results on both machines.
more each finger shows completely different glucose level. I followed all instructions, original strips, not out of date, clean fingers, clean machine, testing liquid etc

Maybe the company is not worthy anything?

 

[bulkbiker]

Sounds like your meter is set to mg/dl which is the unit used in the USA rather than mmol/l which is what is used here in the UK.
To convert divide by 18. Might be something to be changed in the settings.

 

[searley]

INCORRECT reading with KENETIC WELLBEING

Has anyone had or has problems with Kinetik Wellbeing Blood Glucose Monitoring System - in Association with St John Ambulance?

I feel disappointed, I bought already two Kinetik Wellbeing Blood Glucose devices ( as thought the first was faulty) and none of them gives me the incorrect readings, the company does not even reply and doesn not want to hear about it once you paid.

The readings make no sense like 156, then, 107, then 180, then 86, every morning no conclusive results on both machines.
more each finger shows completely different glucose level. I followed all instructions, original strips, not out of date, clean fingers, clean machine, testing liquid etc

Maybe the company is not worthy anything?

Each finger will give a different result.. In fact 2 tests from 1 drop of blood can give a different result due the the accuracy tolerances of home testing kits

It's being made worse but the fact that the meter is showing the USA units

The accuracy percentage that it has to comply with us 15%

So it your blood is 100mg/dl the meter can show between 85 and 115mg/dl and be considered correct

100mg/dl is about 5.5mmol

So the 15% would be between 4.6 and 6.4 does seem so bad does it..

I would suggest going to the pharmacy and getting a UK meter

 

[ert]

The UK meters are only accurate to a certain measuring percentage range also. I was recently on a Nexus RX machine trial and the results were plus or minus 1.5 mmol/l (which are better than what you are seeing). They took my blood in a blood test and then used 15 handheld machines to get readings from one finger prick which they kept squeezing blood from. Then repeated it on four different fingers.
So the results aren't technically incorrect. They are as accurate as the handheld machine can measure.
My Freestyle Lite is one of the best on the market. It measures plus or minus 0.5 mmol/l. I'm on insulin, so if I'm 3.5 mmol/l I could be between 3 and 4 mmol/l. So If I have hypo symptoms I know I am below 3.5, so take a dexter. If I don't have symptoms then I know I am 3.5 or above so eat fruit.
It's still much better than peeing in a bottle and testing for glucose like in the good old days, which would only tell you when your blood sugars were really high.