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Message: <blockquote data-quote="catinahat" data-source="post: 2571603" data-attributes="member: 155453">The one your GP uses has the same accuracy, if you were to take both of your meters to the Dr and do. 3 tests, one with each of your meters and the Dr's, you would have 3 different results. All the results would be within the 15% plus or minus range of your actual glucose level. Which of the three are the closest to your true level is impossible to know, not even your doctor would have the faintest idea. And of course if it were possible to know for sure your true sugar level and you repeated the three meter experiment, it would probably be a different one of the three that was closest second time around. The only way to get a truly accurate sugar level is to have a sample tested in a lab, by the time you got the results back your levels would have changed. Then you would have accurate but totally irrelevant information. The accuracy of the meters is not ideal, we would all love them to be more accurate but its what we've got and better than nothing.</blockquote>

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