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Good evening one and all.
Been a tad busy recently with this and that. Missing the chats, trials and tribulations of the forum.
So why am I here now?
Well ......
New home,
New doctors surgery.
New blood glucose monitor :banghead::banghead::banghead:.
Now I’m always happy to give anything a chance, but I’d like any feedback on the new meter I’ve been prescribed.
It’s a Nipro Trueyou.
My initial thoughts are.......cheap, tacky, probably unreliable and affordable ( nipro’s big selling point:))
I’m currently 4 hrs in with it so obviously things could change, especially with what some of you people may offer as feedback.

Please someone tell me that this is a great piece of kit and not a whole load of s**t.
 
therower said:
Good evening one and all.
Been a tad busy recently with this and that. Missing the chats, trials and tribulations of the forum.
So why am I here now?
Well ......
New home,
New doctors surgery.
New blood glucose monitor :banghead::banghead::banghead:.
Now I’m always happy to give anything a chance, but I’d like any feedback on the new meter I’ve been prescribed.
It’s a Nipro Trueyou.
My initial thoughts are.......cheap, tacky, probably unreliable and affordable ( nipro’s big selling point:))
I’m currently 4 hrs in with it so obviously things could change, especially with what some of you people may offer as feedback.

Please someone tell me that this is a great piece of kit and not a whole load of s**t.
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I’ve never heard of that one! My GP surgery issued me with a Gluco Rx Nexus, which is a cheap, tacky, unreliable, affordable POS. Readings are regularly 2mmol away from my Libre scanner and Omnipod’s built in meter, which both use Freestyle strips, albeit different ones - these two usually pretty much concur with each other. The Nexus also can’t be downloaded, which makes it next to useless when I go to clinic, as you have to manually scroll through the readings. Not much good for spotting patterns when you can have a dozen a day. Unsurprisingly it’s now in a cupboard, on the advice of my hospital team.

As T1s, we have the right to choose whatever blood meter we want, iirc.
 
@therower never heard of it, but it looks more fancy than my very cheap mylife puraX
 
Diakat said:
@therower never heard of it, but it looks more fancy than my very cheap mylife puraX
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Not sure I want or need fancy:):):).
Who thinks up the names for these devices?
Trueyou.??? mylife puraX???.
Guess I’ll just see how it goes.
Best feature is the “ ejector button”. No need to touch the test strip after you’ve tested. Just press the button and the strip is ejected. Great if your standing next to a waste bin, otherwise you just end up picking the strip up from wherever it lands.
 
helensaramay said:
Absolutely.
As a red-head, I am very used to slathering up the sunscreen before leaving the hotel room and re-slathering throughout the day.
I also wore a hat most of the time (a 8-year old boy's one because I have a pin-head) and kept my shoulders covered.
Following the "slip slop slap" mantra at all times.
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Good on you. The Aussie slogan has been extended to: Slip, Slop, Slap, Seek (shade), Slide (on some sunglasses).
And I add Sip (water) to that. I hope the transition back to Autumn reality is not too upsetting !!
 
kitedoc said:
Good on you. The Aussie slogan has been extended to: Slip, Slop, Slap, Seek (shade), Slide (on some sunglasses).
And I add Sip (water) to that. I hope the transition back to Autumn reality is not too upsetting !!
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I just stay indoors. I turn to ash in the sun ;)

Morning all, smooth night in the 5s, tiny blip to 7 at 1am so had a unit to deal with that. Diabetes clinic at the hospital today, let’s see what they say about my 40 HbA1c and ketone levels...
 
Morning y'all, 10 till around 5am and a 1u correction had me waking at 8.1, now sat at 7.5 and waiting for food :p (the food's sat waiting for me too) too many numbers there for a morning but anyway :)

Frustrating illness this at times...
 
Morning all, from a overcast Hampshire.
My BP at my appointment yesterday was back on track at 101/66.
Twice this has happened recently, I forgot to take my lunchtime Insulin and nearing dinner, it was very high :banghead: luckily it is now down to 9.9. so just in single fiqures, no idea why I have been forgetting, I was here on my own, oh dear.......:rolleyes:
Anyhow, have a terrific Tuesday.
 
Mel dCP said:
I just stay indoors. I turn to ash in the sun ;)

Morning all, smooth night in the 5s, tiny blip to 7 at 1am so had a unit to deal with that. Diabetes clinic at the hospital today, let’s see what they say about my 40 HbA1c and ketone levels...
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I find it hard to sit in the sun now, before hospital I loved to sit and read, as I need Vitamin D, but not a laying about all day person.
Good luck at the Diabetes clinic :)
 
kitedoc said:
Good on you. The Aussie slogan has been extended to: Slip, Slop, Slap, Seek (shade), Slide (on some sunglasses).
And I add Sip (water) to that. I hope the transition back to Autumn reality is not too upsetting !!
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I love the Autumn, cooler nights, warm sunny day's, getting darker earlier, cuddling up on the sofa with..................Pebbles cat :cat: :p But............. not every leaf from the tree's falling onto my front and back garden :rolleyes::bigtears:
 
therower said:
Good evening one and all.
Been a tad busy recently with this and that. Missing the chats, trials and tribulations of the forum.
So why am I here now?
Well ......
New home,
New doctors surgery.
New blood glucose monitor :banghead::banghead::banghead:.
Now I’m always happy to give anything a chance, but I’d like any feedback on the new meter I’ve been prescribed.
It’s a Nipro Trueyou.
My initial thoughts are.......cheap, tacky, probably unreliable and affordable ( nipro’s big selling point:))
I’m currently 4 hrs in with it so obviously things could change, especially with what some of you people may offer as feedback.

Please someone tell me that this is a great piece of kit and not a whole load of s**t.
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I have a museum full of tacky cheap meters but not heard of that one.

The one i like the Accu Check Mobile really nice all in one meter, no strips and is the size of a small phone.

Morning all,

Woke to a 6 something not bad deciede to experimant more with split dose for breakfast, just so I don't drop to lower than 4 before going to work.

Didn't work

Sat in traffice with the alarms going off ~sigh~ so sat there sticking more insulin in and now sat here at work with a 10.6 and shed load of IoB ~sigh~ Coffee me thinks.
 
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