Type 2 Personal glucose meter reliable or not?

[Farzand Ali]

Few days back I went a lab for blood glucose fasting test. Result was 117. I checked it on my personal meter as well and result was 105. What could be the reason? Are domestic glucose meter reliable to give accurate results? Or there could be little deviation from actual result?

 

[EllieM]

Most glucose meters claim to be accurate to about 10%, so there will be some differences between different meters....

 

[bulkbiker]

Those two results are well within the margin of error of your meter and the labs. Neither probably showed your exact level which can vary by the minute anyway.. Don't worry about it.

 

[Resurgam]

As meters in the hands of type twos are mostly for gauging the over meal increase in BG, or comparative progress from last week, month etc, then their accuracy is not all that important. As long as you can see how a meal affects you or that averages are going the right way, or not, it should be fine.

 

[luv2spin]

Your personal meter and lab results will always be different, within certain ranges. The reasons are; How the blood is taken, what kind of equipment they are measuring it with in the lab and the stress factor of this process of getting it done in the lab environment. I am sure that for the fasting test, they have not used a domestic meter but, taken blood from your arm by an injector and did the test results in a special computerised machinery that you do not normally see. If you are using a reliable brand of personal meter, you are okay.