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03-09-2008, 05:44 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Rothesay, New Brunswick Canada, eh
Posts: 6,846
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03-09-2008, 05:57 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Cincinnati, OH
Posts: 8,303
| | | One catch....
"(with the purchase of 100 iTest Strips)."
Cool deal though if someone wants the meter but I couldn't even find the strips on my insurance list.
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03-09-2008, 06:05 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Rothesay, New Brunswick Canada, eh
Posts: 6,846
| | That's not much of a string. You need the strips anyway. I can do 100 in a week on my apparantly limitless plan  It might only be Canadian¿ I see mmol/l on the display. |
03-09-2008, 06:19 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Landenberg, PA
Posts: 1,245
| | John,
I thought you just got a freestyle freedom.... Meter hog. 
Mike
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03-09-2008, 06:24 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Mid-West
Posts: 7,140
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Originally Posted by JediSkipdogg  One catch....
"(with the purchase of 100 iTest Strips)."
Cool deal though if someone wants the meter but I couldn't even find the strips on my insurance list. | That's because the iTest is for Canada only (as xMenace said)...In the US, it's the AgaMatrix Wavesense Keynote meter. I haven't seen where they were offering it for free in the US, other than through places like liberty medical...I think Funnygrl got one that way.
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03-09-2008, 06:31 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Rothesay, New Brunswick Canada, eh
Posts: 6,846
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Originally Posted by Dewey I haven't seen where they were offering it for free in the US, other than through places like liberty medical...I think Funnygrl got one that way. | My pharmacy will give me any meter I want for free as long as I buy 100 strips. They always get me to fill out the forms so they can send them in and get reimbursed from the manufacturer. Try asking your pharmacists. I'm curious why I can do it but Americans can't. |
03-09-2008, 06:33 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Rothesay, New Brunswick Canada, eh
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Originally Posted by morrisma John,
I thought you just got a freestyle freedom.... Meter hog.
Mike | Ya, and I orderd a new Nova Max Link today too. It should be here sometime in 2009  I'll get a new Contour Link this year too, and I'll probably try one of these iTests out too. |
03-09-2008, 07:40 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Hastings Melbourne Australia
Posts: 2,902
| |  Cool Meter
Hey you crazy Canadians, I like that too. Because that I live in a place called Oz it's too cool for us. The same for Sagem phones as they just for Europe and France's other country's DOH!! |
03-10-2008, 05:25 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Portsmouth UK
Posts: 1,608
| | | i like the look of the iTest meter, but i currently really like the simplicity of the accu-chek compact plus... there's zero fiddling with test strips and i love that feature too much to change to something where i need to handle the strips.
the same company also had a concept of a meter about the size and shape of an insulin pen... that really does look interesting!
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03-10-2008, 07:20 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Enumclaw, WA
Posts: 32
| | | I really like the upgraded version of the Ascencia Contour. Because, the test strips are the kind that expire after one month. and you do not have to activate them.
But the this monitor does have a big screen which I like about that.
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03-10-2008, 07:29 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Canada, Prince Edward Island
Posts: 465
| | | So has anyone tried this yet?
I want to know what people think of it.
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September 27, 2007 - 6.6
January 3, 2008 - 6.0
April 16, 2008 - 6.1
July 21, 2008 - 5.5
NovaRapid With Meals
Levemir at Bedtime
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03-10-2008, 10:10 AM
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Originally Posted by Olidus So has anyone tried this yet?
I want to know what people think of it. | I've tried it. I like it. You can't change the time frames for meals without the software, which is irritating, and the memory controls are a little less intuitive than other meters I've used. Also, the backlight isn't manually controlled. It's always on. My understanding is all of these issues are being addressed in later models- soon.
The meter is small, the case is small, and it seems accurate and has large, easy to read display. Overall, I like it, but for now it seems more practicial to stick with more readily available meters. |
03-10-2008, 01:31 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: New Jersey
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Originally Posted by Stuboy i like the look of the iTest meter, but i currently really like the simplicity of the accu-chek compact plus... there's zero fiddling with test strips and i love that feature too much to change to something where i need to handle the strips.
the same company also had a concept of a meter about the size and shape of an insulin pen... that really does look interesting! | Anyone remember the monitor that looked like a pen? I got it when I was diagnosed back in 1989, for the life of me, I cannot remember who made it!!!!
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03-10-2008, 04:30 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Livonia, MI
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Originally Posted by Stumpkins Anyone remember the monitor that looked like a pen? I got it when I was diagnosed back in 1989, for the life of me, I cannot remember who made it!!!! | The Precision QID... It came in a pen looking meter as well as what we would expect a meter to look like... 
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