@Alexandra100 I found this to happen in the past - meters cannot re-adjust themselves to immediate re-testing. Never test less than one hour apart unless of course you are in an emergency situation.
I am not sure what you mean by waiting an hour for the meter to adjust itself? When you turn the meter on it checks the battery etc and then when you insert the strip it carries out some corrections and bleeps when it is ready. If you insert another strip it will do it again, no need to wait.
I thought it would be a good idea to know whether exercise raises my BG immeditely AND/OR after 1 hour. I recently got a shock when I tested after an hour's weight training and got a higher result than before I started. I then did 10 minutes on the stair climber and tested again, getting a much lower number. I theorised that perhaps weight training raises my BG but aerobic exercise straight after saves the situation, but of course I need to run the whole thing again, the numbers may have been just a fluke.
Yes, but it won't be an accurate post prandial result because that moment has passed. But you're right, I need to calm down and not expect too much of my meter. It occurs to me that I should treat it like my Fitbit and my Garmin GPS watch. I know fine well they are not totally accurate, especially the Fitbit, despite the fact that they cost a whole lot more than my TEE2! However I choose to ignore that fact and let myself be passionately motivated by the stats they give me. I did notice that when one day I ran out of strips, my strictness over my diet immediately faltered. I need someone's eye on my carb intake and other healthy behaviours - TEE2, Garmin, Fitbit, Diabetes.UK Forum, God ...
Oh Bluetit, we are soul sisters!!! "Spoil your graphs" indeed! A much worse threat than all that remote stuff about amputations, blindness etc etc
Oh dear - you must have a different meter to the rest of us - accurate to 1mml/1000??
I don't understand what you mean by that. I didn't make any reference to accuracy only to the fact that the meter doesn't need to take an hour to "adjust itself".
I have been on this Forum many years and one of the most complained about topics is blood strip readings consecutively at odds with the reading immediately before it - one conclusion - the meter is not capable of repeating the same reading within moments -get the point now Q.E.D.? Btw I am a friendly guy and am not
Why do people automatically assume a meter is at fault because consecutive readings often differ? Apart from the fact that meters can only be expected to be accurate within a given percentage anyway, another (and to me quite logical) reason for different readings is that as our blood circulates, so does the amount of glucose in it, which suggests that each time we test, we'll probably get a different amount of glucose in the blood on the strip. Certainly it's sensible to wash hands and retest if you get a seriously unexpected result, but otherwise, I think we have to simply accept that small differences are due to glucose levels changing all the time...
I have just received a tee2 meter, first test showed 19! Used my old machine it was under 10. I tested again later when I knew my levels were low and the nee machine said 7, my old one 3.9. This is very dangerous for the machine to be so inaccurate.
