meters

[kotli63]

Hi have been on the forum for quite a while as I was diagnosed in 2010 my sugar levels have been okay until recently they just started playing up and I was told to start taking 4 metfor min a day instead of the one I was taking all these years.

So I started checking my blood glucose levels which started to show high specially the morning ones around 8.5 to 9 and my recent hbac1 came up as 8.7.
I have changed my lifestyle taking up regular exercise which is showing good results.
My question is that I am currently using one touch ultra easy and with my recent visit to the clinic they have handed me glucome aero as I was told it's cheaper, as I have adequate number of strips I started measuring sugar with both in order to check the accuracy and was astonished with the results with both machines were well out e.g, one touch ultra this morning showed 6.2 and glucome results were 8.3 same last night came back from gym and one touch showed 5.1 while glucome n showed 6.5.
I am really confused now as I thought according to my one touch I was getting in grip of the levels with less medicine dependency.
Any idea why this is and what to do.
Thanks

 

[Scimama]

Hi @kotli63 there are a number of reasons you might get different readings from two meters, test strips not stored properly, or out of date, contamination etc. All meters have to meet certain standards but even then there is a range of error associated with them. But even if they read differently its the rise in your BG levels and which foods give lower or no rise in BG and which give big changes in BG levels that are important.

Have a look at http://www.diabetes.co.uk/blood-glucose-meters/blood-glucose-meter-accuracy.html