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02-03-2004, 01:18 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Palm Beach County, Florida
Posts: 1,139
| | If you're bored with the look of your One Touch Ultra or FreeStyle meter, you can get a goofy faceplate for it. I'm really into decorating lately (been watching a little too much HGTV), so all of a sudden everything needs a new look. Since I have a FreeStyle Flash, it appears to have been spared from being color coordinated. FreeStyle Meter Skins One Touch Ultra Skins (to purchase)
Angie
__________________ Angie ...T1 since Oct. 2003   |
02-03-2004, 01:31 AM
| | Junior Member | | Join Date: Feb 2004
Posts: 5
| | | Angie, that is so grat that posted that. Espically for kids, what a great find! |
02-03-2004, 06:12 AM
| | Member | | Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: London, UK
Posts: 100
| | | I have two AccuChek Compacts which are great becuase they have the 17 test strip drum thing but suck because the build quality is highly dubious (both mine have a dodgy on/off button that often takes a bit of repeated pressing to work) and becuase the virtually pain free finger pricker is annoyingly painful and requires about a gallon of blood.
I have ordered the new Freestyle Flash from the US website linked in the other thread (its not available in the UK yet AFAICT). |
02-03-2004, 03:07 PM
| | Junior Member | | Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Madisonville, Kentucky
Posts: 12
| | | I have the one touch ultrasmart. I just got it about a month ago from my dr, and I love it. |
02-03-2004, 03:36 PM
| | Junior Member | | Join Date: Apr 2003
Posts: 87
| | | Ditched my Elite Meter (which I used for the last 10 years or so) for the new Freestyle flash.... I bought two of them, and its the best meter in my opinion.
kemist |
02-03-2004, 03:55 PM
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I am a: Type 1.5 | | Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Hogwarts, Hobbiton, the Galactic Milieu &Ks when I have to be here
Posts: 4,318
| | No skins for my InDuo 
Now I can't be part of the "  Group"
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Frodo to Samwise
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02-03-2004, 05:10 PM
|  | Senior Member | | Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Tennessee
Posts: 2,371
| | | I have stickers in my desk you could use!
They say GREAT, Good Job and Terrific they are yours if you need any. |
02-04-2004, 08:57 AM
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I am a: Type 1.5 | | Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Hogwarts, Hobbiton, the Galactic Milieu &Ks when I have to be here
Posts: 4,318
| | Quote:
Belinda
I have stickers in my desk you could use!
They say GREAT, Good Job and Terrific they are yours if you need any.
| I really do appreciate the offer but what I have in mind is something psychedelic or Funka-delic. Right On.! Can you dig it? You bet your Bippy! Power to the People! Look that up in your Funk and Wagnails!
That kind of thing. 
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Frodo to Samwise
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02-04-2004, 01:38 PM
| | Member | | Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Paris, France
Posts: 259
| | | I use an ultra. I dream of a freestyle flash. Hopefully within the next 8 months or so i will have a CozMonitor (freestyle to clip to the back of my Cozmo pump.
Andrea |
02-04-2004, 03:49 PM
| | Senior Member | | Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Tennessee
Posts: 2,371
| | Quote: Originally posted by rzrbks
I really do appreciate the offer but what I have in mind is something psychedelic or Funka-delic.
Right On.! Can you dig it? You bet your Bippy! Power to the People! Look that up in your Funk and Wagnails!
That kind of thing. | I will see what I can come up with. I am sure there are some in one of the three schools/
__________________  Belinda
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dance, as if nobody can see you, - sing, as if no one can hear, - live, as
if the Earth was a heaven."
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02-04-2004, 05:42 PM
|  | Ex-moderator | | Join Date: Jul 2003
Posts: 1,919
| | rzr,
You know, there's a reason kids don't use most of those phrases anymore....LMAO! Nowadays your sticker's are gonna say "Wicked turn on the half-pipe r-dog" and something about a "forshizzle on my hizzle"?!
Shy  |
02-07-2004, 01:23 PM
| | Junior Member | | Join Date: Feb 2004
Posts: 7
| | | I have used One touch Ultra, Accu check but the FREE STYLE is
the BEST to me. It is almost painless and very accurate, not to mention extremely fast. Been using it for more than 2 yrs now. |
02-07-2004, 10:47 PM
|  | Member | | Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: NE Ohio
Posts: 252
| | | I have had major issues with greater accuracy with meters. I use and stay with whole blood meters due to the plasma based meters having many inaccurate readings compared to the whole blood meters. I have 6 meters. 2 whole blood now and 4 plasma, including The ultra smart. I was hopeful with this one. I had a test reading of 203, then 154, then I did a test with my Profile and had the accurate reading of 143. I shot up accidentally with the reading from the first Ultra smart reading and took way too much insulin. I now use both meters and find the Ultra smart always 40 to 60 mg/dsl higher than my Profile whole blood meter. I have taken, multiple reading with the profile and gotten mixed readings but they have only measure 2 to 4 points different each time. I can't afford to have the convenience of speed with plasma just to get inaccurate continually readings from plasma meters. Is there actually an accurate or at least a steady reading plasma meter out there that can be trusted? Plasma is always going to read higher than whole blood. But if the plasma meter can stay consistent, I can adjust to the new readings. Any ideas? or has anyone else checked their readings as closely as I have. I do 12 tests per day. My A1C's stay from 5.9 to 6.0 for the past 2.5 years. Any advice will be appreciated in the line of accurate meters and your personal experience.
Thanks
Don  |
02-08-2004, 07:59 AM
|  | Member | | Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Lancaster, UK
Posts: 338
| | | I have an Accu-Chek - Active machine... i really like it... |
02-08-2004, 08:27 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: The city on the edge of forever.
Posts: 4,847
| | | I hate to hear that dpav. I bought an UltraSmart meter hoping it would give me a chance for more accurate readings but now I'm not so sure. I sort of wish I had gotten the Freestyle Flash instead.
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