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<blockquote data-quote="evilclive" data-source="post: 1859615" data-attributes="member: 488171"><p>Suck it (or rather stick it) and see. Don't get too hung up on precise accuracy - there's too low, ok, high, too high, and there's the trend of moving between them (going up or down, and how fast). The trend is very useful, and something fingerpricks can't give you.</p><p>Back up with fingerpricks to see how far out it is, and to see if it works for you. If things go well, you'll find it accurate and helpful enough - and I think for most people, it does, so it's worth a go.</p><p></p><p>(other things it can do - it transforms testing when out and about. Another T1 friend and I both stopped to test our sugar while up on a Scottish hill. I pulled the reader from out of my pocket, swiped, read the number. They took their gloves off, unpacked their testing kit from their bag, put a strip in, pricked, etc. The freedom of being able to do that is fantastic. And I've just put a Blucon on mine for low sugar alerts at night too - though that's very much not medically approved...)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="evilclive, post: 1859615, member: 488171"] Suck it (or rather stick it) and see. Don't get too hung up on precise accuracy - there's too low, ok, high, too high, and there's the trend of moving between them (going up or down, and how fast). The trend is very useful, and something fingerpricks can't give you. Back up with fingerpricks to see how far out it is, and to see if it works for you. If things go well, you'll find it accurate and helpful enough - and I think for most people, it does, so it's worth a go. (other things it can do - it transforms testing when out and about. Another T1 friend and I both stopped to test our sugar while up on a Scottish hill. I pulled the reader from out of my pocket, swiped, read the number. They took their gloves off, unpacked their testing kit from their bag, put a strip in, pricked, etc. The freedom of being able to do that is fantastic. And I've just put a Blucon on mine for low sugar alerts at night too - though that's very much not medically approved...) [/QUOTE]
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