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Which Glucometer would you recommend?

I'm suffering quite badly these days from night hypos where I'm going into seizures :( . My wife gets me out of it quite quickly but I'd like to combat this before it gets that bad.

I use Glargine opti set long acting insulin before I go to bed as recommended by my GP and I set my alarm 2 and a half hours after I go to bed and check my B.S levels to make sure its not dropped to much. Even with these measures in place I sometime drop into hypo in the early morning and my wife has to force sugar water into me to get me out of it. During the day is not a problem as I can fell a hypo coming on but its difficult when I'm asleep.

My question is, I found a monitoring device on Amazon for about £80 that you strap to your wrist or ankle that measures body temp and perspiration that are symptoms of a bad hypo. It vibrates and sounds an alarm if it detects low body temps and high perspiration, And I was wondering if anyone was using this device and how effective it was?.

I really hope someone out there can let me know as I'm really starting to find this quite distressing :cry:
 
Hi, I've used that device and it frightened the life out of me and my OH one night when it alarmed because we had slept with the window open so a breeze caused my skin temp to drop. So I guess they work if you suffer from a major drop in temp when you go hypo! Could you use a CGM? are they available to you? Have you considered self funding one?
 
I've used the device. It works if your night hypo symptoms include a drop in temperature and sweating (which mine do). It has been quite effective although about 30% have been false alarms. It gives me and my husband a more peaceful night. It was recommended in the IDDT magazine I can't remember the exact name but this one looks like it.

http://www.healthandcare.co.uk/diabetes ... alarm.html
 
Constant Glucose Monitor thingy, you wear it (via a cannular) for 3 or 4 days at a time and it takes a reading every minute or so. I've never worn one so I am a little flaky on the details, lots of people on here have them though! Some PCT's will fund them but others won't so from what I can understand, it is usually a finance issue which stops lots of people having them. But you can self fund them.

I would say though, if you are hypoing without warning in the night, then it may be worth doing some tests throughout the night to see when you START to drop? it would be a bind but if you set your alarm for every hour and woke and took a BG test then you could develop a better picture? it could be that you are crashing between 3 and 4 (for example) but the drop could be less or more specific and if you can get a handle on that you could adjust your insulin accordingly perhaps? Just ideas, I've never done it before myself!

Good luck :D
 
Hi, I have two accuchek comfort plus meters...one at home and one at work. Easy display and all you need to do is replace the container when it finishes. recently one of my meters broke down and it was free of cost replaced by accuchek within 3 days. :D
 
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