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12-15-2004, 03:17 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Land of Enchantment
Posts: 400
| | | Accucheck Advantage strips
I took a hammer to my Accucheck Advantage meter this afternoon, darn thing tried to kill me. Consequently I have 150 test strips that I can't use and will send them to anyone without insurance who can use them.
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KRIS
Type I 22 years, pump for 5 1/2 years,
now Lantus and Humalog
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12-15-2004, 08:28 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: The city on the edge of forever.
Posts: 4,847
| | | May I ask what happened? I've always liked Accu-Chek products.
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My Little Princess
August 18, 1990 - May 3, 2006 
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me one
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12-16-2004, 04:14 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Lexington KY
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Originally Posted by KrisinNM I took a hammer to my Accucheck Advantage meter this afternoon, darn thing tried to kill me. Consequently I have 150 test strips that I can't use and will send them to anyone without insurance who can use them. | And you are sure it wasn't the strips that were bad.
Jason |
12-16-2004, 05:37 AM
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| | | lg, see my post under Precision before Accuracy.
Yes, I love my Accucheck Active, it gives consistant readings.
Jason, yes. I am sure because I used one box up and opened another when I was doing all the back-to-back tests yesterday.
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KRIS
Type I 22 years, pump for 5 1/2 years,
now Lantus and Humalog
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12-16-2004, 06:18 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Lexington KY
Posts: 381
| | | Just curious ... did you run a control when you were having problems with your meter? What kind of results did you get if you did?
Jason |
12-16-2004, 06:37 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Land of Enchantment
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| | Jason, I looked all over for the control solution yesterday but either the meter didn't come with it or I put it someplace where I wouldn't lose it 
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KRIS
Type I 22 years, pump for 5 1/2 years,
now Lantus and Humalog
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12-16-2004, 07:57 PM
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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 might have some. If I do, I can send it to you if you wish.
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Brandy
My Little Princess
August 18, 1990 - May 3, 2006
Say you'll share with
me one
love, one lifetime . . .
Lead me, save me
from my solitude . . .
Say you want me
with you ,
here beside you . . .
Anywhere you go
let me go to . . .
Christine,
that's all I ask of . . .
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12-17-2004, 05:52 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Land of Enchantment
Posts: 400
| | | Thanks lg but I will never use that meter again as it is in the trash where it belongs.
Can you use the strips? Actually there are 250 still in unopened boxes. I will be glad to give them to someone.
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KRIS
Type I 22 years, pump for 5 1/2 years,
now Lantus and Humalog
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12-18-2004, 09:13 PM
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| | Hi KrisinNM! If you can't find someone on the board that can use your strips, maybe your local Diabetes Association can use them. My dad took most of my mom's extra supplies to our local association when she passed away. Then I became diabetic. Thankfully, he still had a few meters left, one of which was the Accu-chek Advantage. Because the directions weren't with it, I had a few errors, too, until I figured out the strips had to be inserted first! I was putting my blood sample on the strip first and then inserting it afterwards.  When it finally dawned on me to put the strip in first, it was like, "oh, hello"!! I used to blame these moments on "lupus fog", but now I guess I can also say, "my sugar was off"! LOL! Take care!
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12-19-2004, 07:23 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Land of Enchantment
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| | Azmum, my sugar is off, crs, senior moment, blonde day, I have lots of excuses for all the "oh, duhs!" every day. 
I would not give a dime to the American Diabetes Association, JDF has all my support. If no one here wants 250 FREE strips I will send them to Mike at Insulin Pumpers network. He distributes surplus pump supplies to people who need them.
Lucky your dad held onto a few things, huh?
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KRIS
Type I 22 years, pump for 5 1/2 years,
now Lantus and Humalog
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12-29-2004, 06:38 PM
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Posts: 27
| | Hi Kris--
Got another question for you about those strips. Where they red or the blue curved ones?
I had been using the blue curved strips with my Accuchek Advantage, as that is which type I liked of what my dad had saved from my mom's supplies.
This week the pharmacy gave me the red strips and they are driving me bonkers!  End up redoing the tests at least three times because the results vary, i.e. not enough blood to fill the square gave a reading of 51. Just curious...
Take care and have a Happy New Year!
~ azmum
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12-30-2004, 06:15 AM
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| | | They were the straight ones, not curved. (shudder) that meter made me think I was back in the dark ages: it took a LOT of blood and a full minute to give results, usually an error message. Glad to report the strips have found a new home.
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KRIS
Type I 22 years, pump for 5 1/2 years,
now Lantus and Humalog
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12-30-2004, 11:47 AM
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| | Kris--  Glad those strips found a new home!
Got my new curved strips today; they're so much better and don't take so much blood. I kept thinking the other ones couldn't be helping my anemia!
Take care!
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