Recommened a good/ cheap monitor.

[Sunflower11]

Hi,
Both my parents had diabetes. Consquently once/ twice a year I test my own levels. However, due to the pandemic I'm not going to my GP for testing.
I have used at home the urine strips in tubes in the past, but I'd like to get an inexpensive blood monitor to see if I'm still within good levels. Also my husband has pre-diabetes. So could someone kindly suggest a good testers?
Thank you.

 

[Antje77]

Hi @Sunflower11 , and welcome to the forum!
All available glucose meters work fine. For most of us, the sensible thing to do is get the meter with the cheapest strips, as that's the ongoing cost. In your case, your strips will be long out of date before you've used them.
Most starter packs come with 10 teststrips, which is more than enough to keep testing twice a year until the test strips get too old.

 

[Sunflower11]

Thank you for the fast reply. So something like Diastix would be just fine. I don't know of anything cheaper.

 

[Antje77]

Thank you for the fast reply. So something like Diastix would be just fine. I don't know of anything cheaper.

Those measure glucose in urine, not blood glucose. I'd use a blood glucose meter if I were you, glucose only starts to spill in urine when you go above 10 or 11 mmol/l.

 

[bulkbiker]

I use this meter

https://shop.spirit-health.co.uk/collections/tee2
The strips have gone up in price recently but I still rate it as pretty accurate for my requirements.

Cheaper to run (but in my view less accurtae) is the SD Codefree
From here
https://homehealth-uk.com/all-products/codefree-blood-glucose-monitoring-system-mmoll-or-mgdl/

 

[Riva_Roxaban]

Most meter manufactures Accu-Chek, Abbott, Ascencia, will give you one for free you cannot get cheaper than that.

I have not paid for a meter yet.

 

[Sunflower11]

Thank you everyone. I'll look into your suggestions.