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View Poll Results: What type of Meter do you prefer? | |
One Touch Ultra/Ultra2/UltraSmart/UltraMini
|    | 83 | 47.16% | |
Accu-Chek Advantage/Active/Compact/Aviva
|    | 31 | 17.61% | |
Ascensia Contour/Breeze
|    | 5 | 2.84% | |
Bayer Contour
|    | 13 | 7.39% | |
Free Style
|    | 33 | 18.75% | |
ReliOn
|    | 9 | 5.11% | |
Other
| | 14 | 7.95% |
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10-02-2009, 07:26 PM
|  | Junior Member
I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: May 2009 Location: Virginia
Posts: 37
| | i use the true2go currently the worlds smallest meter. Home Diagnostics - Our Products - TRUE2go?
not too many features(so none of my doctors like it  ), but i use it mainly for pocket space and the strips are cheap ($38 for 50, my parent's insurance doesnt cover strips) |
10-02-2009, 08:06 PM
|  | Senior Member
I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: New Brunswick Canada, eh
Posts: 8,672
| | | I still like my BD Link best. It seems to be teh most accurate/consistent and takes the smallest drop of blood of any of teh nine or so meters I own. Well the Ascensias are smaller but I find teh strips hard to use. My next favorite meter is the Contour Link, only because it links. My real next favorite is the Aviva/Nano. |
10-03-2009, 02:32 AM
|  | Senior Member
I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Universe, Planet Earth :P
Posts: 1,340
| | I currently use Freestyle LITE, Aviva and have only just gotten a One Touch UltraSmart (I hate OneTouch strips, but heck, only the UltraSmart has all those functions). No more writing down test results or using softwares for me... My doctor can just look at the UltraSmart- if i decide i like it 
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Type1 since october 2004.
Silver Animas 2020 (but on pump break)
MDI: Novorapid and Levemir with Novopen4 
Mainly testing with: OneTouch UltraSmart called "The Vampire" and a Freestyle LITE called Buffy
hbA1c feb 2009: 5.1 |
10-03-2009, 08:44 AM
|  | Senior Member
I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Derby,UK
Posts: 1,375
| | i use an ultrasmart, but admit it could do with an update or two, mainly a strip light and also why bother with coded strips? I use an old strip tub for used strips, they are ideal IMO. I also have an aviva nano (never used), a broke freestyle lite, 2 bayer contours and strips for all !! |
10-03-2009, 08:56 AM
|  | Senior Member
I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Atlanta, GA
Posts: 794
| | I have been using the same one touch ultra mini since my dx back in July. I have a relion meter as well, but it and its strips are not covered on my insurance, so I basically stick with my one touch. Plus, the one touch is pink 
Lol... dh didn't understand that the relion wasn't on insurance at first. He thought I was just buying a new meter for its color (which is not a far fetched thing for me to do...) 
__________________ Metformin 2000 mg
7/24 a1c=9.3
10/23 a1c=6.4
Diagnosed 7/22/09
Weight loss as of 10/23/09: 25 pounds!
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10-03-2009, 09:03 AM
|  | Senior Member
I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Melbourne Australia
Posts: 4,470
| | | Well I just got a Nano (thanks again Azz for the offer, it turned out to be easy) and while it's hardly revolutionary, it seems a solid little tester that I guess makes it my current favourite. It would have been nice to have a strip light. Then again I had one with a strip light and decided that no-light testing was just to frustrating anyway. The strips are great, as per the previous model. The Multiclix is a blast, I see why people rave about it. The case is lacklustre as per usual, I'll be thinking of more compact and clever ways to case it.
As my previous favourite tester was the bigger Accuchek Performa (think this is the "Aviva"), because it was an update of my prevous favourite the Accuchek Active, a line stretching back what, quite a few years, I guess Accuchek really gets my vote. I just kept returning to them, for ease of use and dependability.
I would like to try something like the Ultrasmart but Onetouch is not available here. A really hole in the local market. Actually I'd prefer if my pump just let me enter more user data events, I'd really really like that. I echo recent frustrations that all testers do not come with full PC hookup abilities these days, and easy and open data sharing. Why is it that almost everything seems to get 1/2 way but not all the way with data input and manipulation? SO frustrating.
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−− Type 1 since 1991
≈≈ Minimed Paradigm 722 since 2007
~~ Metformin ER since Sep 2009 |
10-03-2009, 09:23 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Derby,UK
Posts: 1,375
| | Subby, no probs mate. oh and well done for thrashing us again yesterday Flippin cricket! why did we ever teach a bunch of convicts??? JOKE!! )
I agree on the cases being the weak link, they are all lacking in something. The best i've seen so far is for the ultrsmart, but even that neads a facelift. Hmmm, maybe we could all come up with improvements either in a new thread or in this one, then bombard the mfrs with emails demanding improvements!! |
10-03-2009, 10:03 AM
| | Senior Member
I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Melbourne Australia
Posts: 4,470
| | Azz I think you're right about it being a bad idea teaching convicts, because I figure they had nothing better to do all day everyday than practice their cricket. Herein lay the seeds of future humiliation...
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≈≈ Minimed Paradigm 722 since 2007
~~ Metformin ER since Sep 2009 |
10-03-2009, 10:34 AM
| | Junior Member | | Join Date: Apr 2009
Posts: 3
| | | I have moved from OneTouch Ultra to WaveSense KeyNote and am currently testing the WaveSense Presto which is reputed to be a better meter. The problem with all of the glucometers on the market today is that +/- 20 percent accuracy is woefully inadequate and downright dangerous for anyone trying to stay at tight control. If a reading of 60 mg/dl is actually 48, hypoglycemia is waiting to occur. The FDA is considering strenghtening the standards and I have written to my senators asking them to back this process. Since I started using the Dexcom Seven-Plus CGM I have ignored any and all software that's used with the meters. The statistical data that comes from 280-plus readings in 24 hours is an enormous improvement over the sporadic data one gets from the glucometers |
10-06-2009, 09:09 AM
|  | Junior Member
I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: A cornfield
Posts: 35
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I"m a fan of the One Touch. I've used Accucheck in the past and had no problems with it... now, I have a ReliOn as back up, but stick to my One Touch that is linked to my pump. I love this feature, and am almost ashamed that I've had my pump for 6 years but only started using my meter with it in the last 2 months. :P |
10-06-2009, 10:16 AM
| | Junior Member | | Join Date: Sep 2009
Posts: 6
| | | I use a onetouch ultra 2 and an ultra mini. I love the ultra mini, I just stick it in my pocket and go. |
10-06-2009, 04:51 PM
| | Junior Member
I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: north queensland australia
Posts: 59
| | | meters
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Originally Posted by htown484  I use a onetouch ultra 2 and an ultra mini. I love the ultra mini, I just stick it in my pocket and go. | I use an accu-chek performa because they sent it to me for free. |
10-06-2009, 06:03 PM
| | Senior Member
I am a: Type 1.5 | | Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: KCMO
Posts: 5,429
| | Quote:
Originally Posted by imac I use an accu-chek performa because they sent it to me for free. | heh, heh, heh. First one is always free ... watch the strip costs though!
I was so confused in the hospital ... and the CDE who gave me the spiel had no idea. Best thing is to call your insurance co. and use what they have the best copay on!
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Linda Initial A1c Feb 6 09: 12%
Aug 24 A1c (MD office) 5.5%
Jul ... C-pep 1.3, GAD-65 > 30
metformin 1000 mg BID
Simvastatin 80 mg
Ramipril 5 mg
T4 125 mcg
baby aspirin
Vitamin D3, 2000 IU (blood values normal, advised to continue this dose by endo)
CoQ10 100 mg
Eating 70 - 90 g carb per day
Interval training on recumbent cycle
BMI is down to ca. 25.8 According to Joslin's Diabetes, 2005 ed., 5 - 30% of those diagnosed as Type 2 actually have LADA. |
10-06-2009, 08:36 PM
| | Junior Member
I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Corpus Christi, TX
Posts: 50
| | | One Touch Ultra Smart at home & One Tough Mini at work. get the strips on eBay, crazy cheaper online.
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Type1 since February 2008
Animas OneTouch "Ping" Insulin Pump since October 2009 |
10-06-2009, 10:47 PM
| | Junior Member | | Join Date: Sep 2009
Posts: 22
| | | I have a Bayer Contour I was given at the hospital that I like alot. The only problem with having no insurance and being off work with doctors orders the strips are way out of my league until i get approved for the states medical card. So now I am using some no name meter the local clinic gave me because thats what they have and the strips I can get for just a small donation. |
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