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Test Strips

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Outlier

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Type of diabetes
Type 2
Treatment type
Diet only
Is there a knack to extracting just one test strip? My hands aren't too good any more (injury and arthritis) and I really struggle with it. To misquote Ogden Nash: "When you open up the bottle, none'll come and then the lot'll".
 
I'm no better off. I have a Optium Neo meter, so the teststrips come in individual foil packets that are supposed to be torn open. I think I am going to have to carry scissors around with my testing kit. My hands just can't do it any more.
 
Outlier said:
Is there a knack to extracting just one test strip? My hands aren't too good any more (injury and arthritis) and I really struggle with it. To misquote Ogden Nash: "When you open up the bottle, none'll come and then the lot'll".
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If a change of meter could be an option the accuchek mobile has a cassette, not strips. On opening the cover the cassette cycles round to the next testing “zone” and you dab that against the blood drop. (It is a bit of a different knack) No pots, no strips, no constant disposal needs. And the lancer is attachable to the unit. As can a Bluetooth adaptor be if you should choose. The cassettes aren’t cheap though.
 
I leave the strip container in the meter pouch that came with the Contour Next, I do the same with the meter to give me more grip.

I can then flick the lii up, and fish a strip out easier to put it in the end of the meter.

Saves me playing fifty strip pickup trying to get them out now I have the joe blakes from one of my medications.

 
I have transferred my test strips to a small plastic container so my fingers have room to pick one up. As I understand it, the test strip isnt sterile, so any airtight clean container will do the trick.
 
I found Abbott strip containers to be the worst of all the strips I have used, Accu-Chek, Contour have been the best for getting a finger in to get one.

With Abbott you had to shake them out a little bit.
 
Outlier said:
Is there a knack to extracting just one test strip? My hands aren't too good any more (injury and arthritis) and I really struggle with it. To misquote Ogden Nash: "When you open up the bottle, none'll come and then the lot'll".
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LOL! I have the same problem; same with Ketone strips. I think the manufacturer might supply a pincher of some sort. I drop the whole batch evenly near the edge and pick one out nimbly. It's tricky, I agree. You might find something in your desk that can do the job.
 
Get some plastic tweezers and use them.
 
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