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<blockquote data-quote="Oldvatr" data-source="post: 1022872" data-attributes="member: 196898"><p>I believe it is possible to have hypo symptoms at relatively high bgl readings like 4.8, and it is usually associated with a sudden drop in bgl if you have normally been running high levels. It is more like a shock response rather than a clinical hypo. Have you changed medication or diet recently?</p><p></p><p>The other possibility is that your meter may be reading high. I have two meters that I run in parallel, and one is always 2 or 3 mmol higher than the other. So when I had one reading 2.1 the other was reading 5.3 Also, I can get a 1 or 2 mmol jump in readings when I change pack of strips, which is why I run two meters so I can detect this and allow for it. </p><p></p><p>Meters nowadays are suppposed to conform to an ISO standard that requires an accuracy of + /- 20% so when taking a reading that is really 4/0 mmol/L then any reading between 3.2 and 4.8 is acceptable. The ISO standard is shortky to be updated and meters will need to be accurate to + / - 15% from 2016 onwards</p><p></p><p>Just to complicate matters,older meters used to be calibrated for blood plasma levels (i,e fingerpricking) but meters that can be used with alternate sites are nowadays calibrated for whole blood and will read higher by a factor of 1.12</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Oldvatr, post: 1022872, member: 196898"] I believe it is possible to have hypo symptoms at relatively high bgl readings like 4.8, and it is usually associated with a sudden drop in bgl if you have normally been running high levels. It is more like a shock response rather than a clinical hypo. Have you changed medication or diet recently? The other possibility is that your meter may be reading high. I have two meters that I run in parallel, and one is always 2 or 3 mmol higher than the other. So when I had one reading 2.1 the other was reading 5.3 Also, I can get a 1 or 2 mmol jump in readings when I change pack of strips, which is why I run two meters so I can detect this and allow for it. Meters nowadays are suppposed to conform to an ISO standard that requires an accuracy of + /- 20% so when taking a reading that is really 4/0 mmol/L then any reading between 3.2 and 4.8 is acceptable. The ISO standard is shortky to be updated and meters will need to be accurate to + / - 15% from 2016 onwards Just to complicate matters,older meters used to be calibrated for blood plasma levels (i,e fingerpricking) but meters that can be used with alternate sites are nowadays calibrated for whole blood and will read higher by a factor of 1.12 [/QUOTE]
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