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SD Code Free Strips Batch no. S0318075.

garyb888 said:
i am looking into the Caresens product line and I see there area few different kinds of meters available. Does anyone know if different Caresens meters require different strips?

Thanks for any advice...
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I have the Caresens Dual which takes the Caresens Pro Strips, you can also buy ketone test strips for use with this machine.
 
garyb888 said:
registering with WHICH company??
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There’s usually a tick box to acknowledge you are diabetic whatever company you buy from on line. You just declare you’re diabetic and the VAT is deducted.
 
Rachox said:
I have the Caresens Dual which takes the Caresens Pro Strips, you can also buy ketone test strips for use with this machine.
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thanks Rachox. Checking on the Caresens website, it looks like the Dual meter does NOT have a memory for previous tests. How do you manage to live with that??
 
garyb888 said:
i am looking into the Caresens product line and I see there area few different kinds of meters available. Does anyone know if different Caresens meters require different strips?

Thanks for any advice...
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Gary, I ordered 200 strips, I phoned them up and they sent me the meter for free.
 
Rachox said:
I’m not sure where you read that but it says it stores 1000 readings on the fact sheet on line here:
http://spirit-healthcare.co.uk/site/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/CareSens-Dual-Fact-sheet.pdf
I haven’t taken a thousand readings yet but the ones I have taken are all safely stored :)
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Thanks again Rachox, and you are right: the pdf shows it has a memory. the reason i thought it didn't have a memory is because on the Caresens site it omits the memory in it's spec sheet for the dual. http://www.i-sens.com/html/proN/CareSens_Dual.php. It DOES show the memory for some of the meters that have it. Hmmm.

But.. i just checked again on the spirit site, and at least one other of the meters that don't show as having memory on the Caresens site show as having memory on the spirit site. This is a bit reassuring because it's hard to believe that in this day and age a company smart enough to make a glucose meter would make some models WITHOUT memory.

Maybe it's a smart company, but bad (sloppy) product marketing. Shame, shame, shame.

This is a very difficult thing to be shopping for (big swallower of time).... arrghh!!!
 
bulkbiker said:
Pretty poor service from HH did you send them a link to this thread? I'll happily send them my data through too..
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Not Home Health. They do their best but ask the manyufacturer to do0 the testing. It is the manufacturers report, not Home Healths.

I suspect the reason why the manufacturer's testing seems the opposite of what you all have found is due to the fact they are using factory strips. I think the corruption happens during shipping. It is a long way from Korea. The conclusion HH came to last time this happened was that bad weather or bad transport conditions were to blame during transit.
 
Bluetit1802 said:
Not Home Health. They do their best but ask the manyufacturer to do0 the testing. It is the manufacturers report, not Home Healths.

I suspect the reason why the manufacturer's testing seems the opposite of what you all have found is due to the fact they are using factory strips. I think the corruption happens during shipping. It is a long way from Korea. The conclusion HH came to last time this happened was that bad weather or bad transport conditions were to blame during transit.
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I agree that HH have approached this all in a friendly and professional manner. And I agree that neither the manufacturer nor HH can control the conditions when the strips are transported from manufacturer to HH or indeed HH to our houses. Maybe the problem is deeper in that the strips are too sensitive to environmental factors, however the fact remains that the strips do have problems whatever the cause.
 
Rachox said:
I agree that HH have approached this all in a friendly and professional manner. And I agree that neither the manufacturer nor HH can control the conditions when the strips are transported from manufacturer to HH or indeed HH to our houses. Maybe the problem is deeper in that the strips are too sensitive to environmental factors, however the fact remains that the strips do have problems whatever the cause.
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Then how come other brands (such as CareSens) that are also manufactured in South Korea or other "far away places" don't suffer the same problems?? Or do they? Am i right in thinking that at least the Caresens strips have acceptable levels of accuracy? What is the answer to this significant dilemma? After a month of parallel testing with the Codefree (vs. my Abbott Freestyle Lite) i had to give up on it, with regrets. And now i have 400 unused codefree strips on my shelf. :eek:))
 
garyb888 said:
Then how come other brands (such as CareSens) that are also manufactured in South Korea or other "far away places" don't suffer the same problems?? Or do they? Am i right in thinking that at least the Caresens strips have acceptable levels of accuracy? What is the answer to this significant dilemma? After a month of parallel testing with the Codefree (vs. my Abbott Freestyle Lite) i had to give up on it, with regrets. And now i have 400 unused codefree strips on my shelf. :eek:))
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I don’t know, but I wonder if the more expensive strips are more robust? I notice the Caresens Pro strips I’m now using have to be used within 18 months of opening whereas the Code Free ones are use within six months.
 
Rachox said:
I notice the Caresens Pro strips I’m now using have to be used within 18 months of opening whereas the Code Free ones are use within six months.
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On my Freedom Lite strips that I am using now, they are marked use by 2020/03. So you may be right on the button with your idea.

I had an thought that all strips were made by one or two strip manufacturers, that produce for all of the brands. I do not know if this right or not, but I could imagine them being mass produced in third world countries.
 
Tipetoo said:
On my Freedom Lite strips that I am using now, they are marked use by 2020/03. So you may be right on the button with your idea.

I had an thought that all strips were made by one or two strip manufacturers, that produce for all of the brands. I do not know iif this right or not, but I could imagine them being mass produced in third world countries.
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This thread is getting very interesting! It would be nice if after a bit more experimentation, analysis, and contemplation we could actually come up with something like a "summary report" on what the status quo really is with the issue of inexpensive strips vs. acceptable accuracy (I mean ACTUAL accuracy, not the BS statements of the flakey manufacturers). Given what i imagine the status of DiabetesUK to be maybe the final result could be something like a Consumer's Report that could be very helpful for diabetics all over the world. I'm surprised that something like that hasn't been published already. It certainly is very much needed. Just putting the thought out there...
 
I have been on this forum for about 3 years and for almost all that time the SD Codefree has been recommended by multiple posters. If the recent problems are due to the cheapness of strips or the distance from Korea then I am surprised that it hasn't been reported before. It would be a pity if the idea that only expensive strips were accurate was to be accepted without evidence and burden those self funding with even more expense. I didn't have any trouble with the SD during the 18 months I used it but I now use the TEE2+ which I prefer because of the smaller blood sample. I would recommend it if anyone wants to get a cheap to run meter and has been put off the SD.
 
Mr_Pot said:
I have been on this forum for about 3 years and for almost all that time the SD Codefree has been recommended by multiple posters. If the recent problems are due to the cheapness of strips or the distance from Korea then I am surprised that it hasn't been reported before. It would be a pity if the idea that only expensive strips were accurate was to be accepted without evidence and burden those self funding with even more expense. I didn't have any trouble with the SD during the 18 months I used it but I now use the TEE2+ which I prefer because of the smaller blood sample. I would recommend it if anyone wants to get a cheap to run meter and has been put off the SD.
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I was very happy with my Code Free til recently when, aside from this dodgy batch S0318075 which caused me to start this thread, I started getting more and more unexpected reading, which I felt needed retesting. I was beginning to use two or even three strips for most tests which defeats the object of using a meter with cheap strips. I’ve been using the Caresens Dual for just over a week now and haven’t once felt the need to retest.
 
garyb888 said:
registering with WHICH company??
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Spirit Healthcare
garyb888 said:
thanks Rachox. Checking on the Caresens website, it looks like the Dual meter does NOT have a memory for previous tests. How do you manage to live with that??
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Yes it does store past readings, and you can manually scroll through the memory, or you can upload it to a computer for full analysis by their App. I personally do it manually but have used their APP auccessfully.
 
Mr_Pot said:
If the recent problems are due to the cheapness of strips or the distance from Korea then I am surprised that it hasn't been reported before.
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It has been reported before. It was reported during the winter of 2014/15. The Korean manufacturer's report was dated February 2015. There was a very similar thread to this one at that time with problems of one particular batch. I was involved in this and was given loads of pots of strips by Home Health to do some comparison cross checking with my Accu Chek Mobile. (similar to what @Rachox has been doing. ) I have always thought the Codefree was a bit dodgy, requiring too many double and triple tests, no matter which batch. In the end I gave up on it completely. I have continued to recommend it to newbies(along with the Tee2) simply because of the cost but have used my Accu Chek exclusively for the last 2 years .
 
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