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Why is it so hard to fin a BG meter that i like :(

Luckily I also have the Libre, but have had to hang around the golf club house waiting for the expert to warm up enough to test for driving...
 
I currently have the accu check expert and love it, made my life so much easier
 
As of last month's webinar, the most accurate meter that is tested/recommended by Dr Bernstein (no financial interests involved) for his patients is the Freedom Freestyle or Freedom Freestyle Lite. Meter accuracy is one of his obsessions.
 
jackois said:
Luckily I also have the Libre, but have had to hang around the golf club house waiting for the expert to warm up enough to test for driving...
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That is enough to put me off the Libre, great idea but too many downsides. With time I'm sure the foibles will be ironed out.
 
Re cold temp affecting bg meters......I use Little Hotties hand warmers and just put one in my coat pocket with a leg cut off of an old pair of tights on the top of the hottie and keep the bg meter in my pocket with the hottie which also keeps my hand nice and warm so that I can do a bg test ok. The other alternative is to just keep the bg meter (tiny ones) close to the body. Bg meters dont like the cold.
 
Richard F said:
That is enough to put me off the Libre, great idea but too many downsides. With time I'm sure the foibles will be ironed out.
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It's not the Libre that needs to warm up, it's the Accu-chek... usually takes about 15 minutes to warm up, making it useless for testing while you are going round the course & the all important test before you drive home...

The Libre has been the best thing ever. Other than some red skin where a sensor has been, it's been accurate, only failed once and is brilliant for sport as you can test quickly and as often as you want. It's transformed my as I no longer flirt with hypos while golfing.
 
jackois said:
It's not the Libre that needs to warm up, it's the Accu-chek... usually takes about 15 minutes to warm up, making it useless for testing while you are going round the course & the all important test before you drive home...

The Libre has been the best thing ever. Other than some red skin where a sensor has been, it's been accurate, only failed once and is brilliant for sport as you can test quickly and as often as you want. It's transformed my as I no longer flirt with hypos while golfing.
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The more I read about the Libre the more i like it (except sensor cost of course) Do you still need to check a blood sample before driving? Is it not accurate enough?
 
jackois said:
It's not the Libre that needs to warm up, it's the Accu-chek... usually takes about 15 minutes to warm up, making it useless for testing while you are going round the course & the all important test before you drive home....
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15 mins is a long time, put the meter under your arm will warm it up quicker, I do this and its ready to use in a few minutes.
 
I use the AccuChek Mobile. It's great not having to carry around strips and separate lancets and to be able to a run a test so quickly and easily.

Having said that, accuracy is the most important thing to me.

Has a study been carried out into BG meter accuracy and, if so, does anyone know which metre(s) came out on top?
 
ArtemisBow said:
I am back on a freestyle lite. It's incredibly basic, but rarely has errors, gives accurate readings and doesn't require tons of blood to get it to work. I have a libre too which uses optium strips, but TBH I find it a bit of a faff as the strips need a lot of blood in comparison and if you don't get enough they fail. But when I have the sensor on I like to only carry one thing!
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The Freestyle Optium (called Neo in DK) is extremely accurate but needs lots of blood. I like Contour XT, which is nearly as accurate and needs only a tiny bit of blood.
 
This was an experiment conducted in 2012 by Zurich University.
Codefree use it for promotional purposes.

Basically, the 20 meters were all tested 10 times against a laboratory verified sample of 6.5mmol/l. The results above show that only 3 meters achieved a more accurate result (shown by the "bias" column) over the 10 tests but of these 3, only 1 meter achieved a more consistently accurate result (shown by the variance figures in the "VK%" column). In other words, of the 3 meters that had a more accurate result over the 10 tests, 2 of them had much greater variation of results (i.e. less consistency).

What these results essentially show is that the only meter that achieved more consistently accurate results than the SD Codefree Blood Glucose Meter was the Finetest system - a unit which, as far as we are aware, is not available to the general public and is only available to medical professionals.

These results also show that whilst the SD Codefree Meter will consistently give you an accurate result, some better known brands such as the Freestyle Lite and the Bayer Contour will consistently give you readings which are much lower than your true blood glucose level.
 

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To me those variances are quite acceptable for day to day use. :0
Pretty consistent,
 
Engineer88 said:
I currently have a Accu-chek mobile. I love the idea, hate the constant errors I have from it.

Accu-check meters are very blood thirsty I find, anyone got any recommendations?

one touch verio IQ needs constant charging

next USB alright but need buttons pressing all the time!

Am i being overly fussy? i just want something easy that works :'(
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I like the SD code free as the strips are cheap but was given an rx nexus. Have bought mini which is small but uses same strips as one from doc. I now leave the brick in my desk drawer at work but keep the mini in my bag. Good so far. Draw back - case same size so if anyone knows of anywhere where I can get a customised case?
 
Richard F said:
The more I read about the Libre the more i like it (except sensor cost of course) Do you still need to check a blood sample before driving? Is it not accurate enough?
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Mine's certainly accurate enough, but they haven't been cleared by DVLA, so you need to test with blood before driving & every 2 hours during a journey...
 
I have a Contour Next (not the usb type). Put the stick in and select (press arrow buttons) Fasting, Before Meal, After Meal or Other.
I have 3 minutes to get blood on the strip and it's easy, just put finger against it and it's drawn in. If I don't have enough on the strip I get a message and then have 30 seconds to add more. My meter allows me to set my own targets, nice bc the After Meal that was preset was a bit high for my liking.
It provides Trends as well; 7 day, 14 day, 30 day and 90 day.
No charging needed, though I would like to find a way to do a reset to 0's sometime. Perhaps it's not necessary.
The lancing device is not bad but some days it stings a bit. I find edges of my pinkies to bleed the best and hurt the least. I typically use all my fingers (not all at once lol) but, do like the pinkies best.
I hope this helps. All the best.
 
I have just been given an Accu-Chek Mobile today and so far I'm absolutely loving it! I can hardly feel the finger sticker and it is fab not having to mess about with strips & lancets every time I want to test my bloods. :-)
 
I use the Contour Next Link USB which seems to be a good meter and links up with my pump.

I used to use the iBGStar at one point and I really wasn't confident on it's accuracy.
 
The Freestyle Optium and Contour XT are both very accurate. The Freestyle is the most accurate of all (demonstrably, partly bec of wrapped strips which made in the UK), but it needs a lot of blood. The XT is more forgiving, so on balance I prefer it. Both can be relied upon.
 
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