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What Meter to go for?

Hi zacthedog,just checking are you lancing the side of your fingertips,nearest the nail,as there are less nerves there
clive
 
Yes Clive and thanks, i have tested all sides now after the one on christmas eve with a boots disposable on the tip of a finger, will not be doing that again in a hurry.
 
Hi Zacthedog,

I see you've lots of advice about meters (I prefer my accucheck over my freestyle lite) but not a lot on prickers.

I use an accu-chek multiclix. I like it because the needles are contained in a plastic cylinder (I have little kids) and you can dial up the strength of the prick. A little yellow dot shows you the needle is loaded and the action is smooth once you press the button.

It's all self contained so you never see a needle. While the lancets come in packs of 6, I stay on the same needle until it's blunt. To go from a blunt to a sharp needle is very easy, you just dial up to the next number and it loads it. Good luck
 
@BeccaScott there have been a few mentions of accu check mobile, if this is your machine of choice please contact me and I will send you a limited edition pink faced one, that I got when checking around in a previous thread about type 2s wanting to test, we get these things for free in scotland, so i got this one online and its free to whoever wants it I use the machine associated with my clinic and it's free. So 1 brand new still in box unregistered limited edition pink faced blood glucose monitor free for the asking!
 
I use a bayer contour next usb meter as it has a rechargeable battery in it and I can stick in it over 2000 tests and I only recharge it once every year just to get the results down from it and I use a different lancet as I have small kids around and I don't want them to get stuck with it and the same with the needles and they are kept out of reach but they have gotten into where I keep them before and I am always thinking before I do it, but kids are kids and get in al sorts of places and you can't have eyes in the back of your head when you are doing something else.
 
You should check the accu check site you can get a free meter. Also Boots have the lancets and test cassettes on sale just now
 
I bought mine from the pharmacy, I had a prescription but it isn't reimbursable . It is an Accu Check and comes with a pen type lance. I think that is better and you don;t see it when it goes in. You can adjust how much it enters your finger with a 1 to 6 setting. I started on 2 and didn't get enough blood so now use 3. I found it a bit tricky at first to get the angle right and I think there may have been a problem with it. Thanks to support here I got that sorted out.
It was expensive and so are the strips and lances but it is easy to carry and easy to use once you get the hang of it.
 
jakeblu said:
I have the Freestyle lite had it about 6 years now. The strips are expensive but I do get 50 a month on prescription, doesn't everybody get strips on prescription?
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Unfortunately many GP's won't give meters to type 2's and if they do it's usually one that the strips are cheaper for.
 
I use an accu check mobile. My surgery said I don't need to test as type 2, but I do! I know, rebel . I find it relatively easy although I did struggle changing the lancet to start. But now I know how, it's easy. I don't find pricking my finger painful. I like that it's small and compact. The cassettes are fairly pricey, but I have discovered on Amazon you can get 2 cassettes of a 100 a lot cheaper. I think for both it was about £35.
 
I get my lancets and test strips on prescription as on insulin for my type 2 and I have a exception certificate as well as when I was on metformin I was able to get them on the exception as well but it has all changed but I was on both metformin and insulin and I was on the maximum for metformin which is 6 and I didn't even have any of the side effects as I did when I took the full amount of Victoza and that is a injection and a half which makes you feel full and you only eat small amount of food and you loose a bit of weight with it as well but it does make you feel really ill but the metformin is nothing compared to that one
 
Prem51 said:
Thanks @R2T2. There isn't an ASDA near where I live. But I will be passing one later in the week so I might pop in to see if they are still on offer and pick up a spare.
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I've got one of these and I love it! I download the graph showing my scores every couple of weeks
sad I know
Boots had an offer on the test cassettes and lancets a few weeks ago and if you order online you can deduct the VAT so I paid £11.99 for the cassette. I have got a prescription from the DN but she won't put it on repeat, I gave to ask when I want another one. I've just had my endo appnt at the diabetic clinic (first one) and he's overridden the diabetes diagnosis and says with my blood glucose results over the last 13 months I'm still only pre diabetic! I assume she won't give me any more prescriptions now.
 
I use a freestyle optimum neo (type1 so the ketone testing is useful occasionally). Also it saves my history and I can download it via USB.
Re: lancets, I use one that I got out of an accu-chek monitor with the 6x lancet cylinders because it's nicer.
We get free meters here, and I was originally diagnosed as type 2 so they gave me the accu-chek first, then let me keep it anyway
 
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