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View Poll Results: What type of Meter do you prefer? | |
One Touch Ultra/Ultra2/UltraSmart/UltraMini
|    | 83 | 46.89% | |
Accu-Chek Advantage/Active/Compact/Aviva
|    | 31 | 17.51% | |
Ascensia Contour/Breeze
|    | 5 | 2.82% | |
Bayer Contour
|    | 13 | 7.34% | |
Free Style
|    | 33 | 18.64% | |
ReliOn
|    | 9 | 5.08% | |
Other
| | 15 | 8.47% |
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10-02-2009, 02:01 PM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Richmond, VA
Posts: 653
| | | What type of Monitor do you use?
I'm just wondering what type of Meter most of you guys prefer. If you have a preference, why?
I use the OneTouch Ultra2 just because it's the brand I'd heard of and the pharmacist suggested. I'm looking into getting an Ultra Mini as well for work since it uses the same type of test strips and lancets.
I would be curious if others like a certain one significantly more though. 
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-Jeremy
8/13/09 (Dx) A1c: 9.5 FBG: 320
10/12/09 Avg BG: 104 Avg FBG: 96
Metformin XR 500mg once daily
Low(ish) Carber @ < ~60g-75g per day
Comin' along! |
10-02-2009, 02:12 PM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Missouri Ozarks
Posts: 1,886
| | Funny thing . . . I got the ReliOn because the strips are cheaper. Now I like it better because the strips come foil-wrapped, and when I'm finished with one, I slip the wrap back on it before disposal - seems to inhibit my usual messy manners.  For someone who's a real sloth about picking up after herself, I don't have used strips swamping my environment!
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10-02-2009, 02:16 PM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Richmond, VA
Posts: 653
| | I actually keep an extra of the plastic containers the strips come in and put them back in there. I don't know that it's the best way to get rid of them, but at least I don't have them everywhere, I suppose.
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-Jeremy
8/13/09 (Dx) A1c: 9.5 FBG: 320
10/12/09 Avg BG: 104 Avg FBG: 96
Metformin XR 500mg once daily
Low(ish) Carber @ < ~60g-75g per day
Comin' along! |
10-02-2009, 02:16 PM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Okc OK
Posts: 198
| | | I use the accue chek aviva because it s free, and the test strip are free from the Miltitary hosp where i get them. The only handle this meter and the precision plus meter and i have that one also but it started giving me erroneous readings |
10-02-2009, 02:18 PM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Reston, VA
Posts: 749
| | | I like the OneTouch UltraSmart because it logs so much information: Glucose, Carbs (Protein, Fat, Calories but I don't use these), Medications (pills, insulins), and even Health Checks. Now that I am back to basal only and not counting carbs as diligentky, I don't use all of these features. Still it is a nice compact meter.
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Rob Type 2 diagnosed in March '07
Metformin 1000 mg x2
Lantus 88 units
Apidra 0-60 units
Lipids
Cholesterol 220
Triglycerides 195
HDL-Cholesterol 27
VLDL-Cholesterol 39
LDL-Cholesterol 154
Hemoglobin A1c
8/28/09 9.1%!!!
7/20/09 11.4% yay! heading in the right direction
5/29/09 13.1%
4/17/09 13.5%
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10-02-2009, 02:55 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Topanga CA
Posts: 760
| | | I tried using the ReliOn because the strips are so much less expensive, but in parallel testing against the OneTouch UltraSmart it failed miserably. The varience exceeded 25% which is unacceptable for insulin dose calculation. I have much more confidence in the OneTouch readings based on my success with MDI. I've also tested the UltraSmart against the Mini and found them within mere points of each other.
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10-02-2009, 03:20 PM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Charleston, SC
Posts: 9
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Originally Posted by jer.lawrence  I actually keep an extra of the plastic containers the strips come in and put them back in there. I don't know that it's the best way to get rid of them, but at least I don't have them everywhere, I suppose. | I have a little half-cup Gladware container in my desk at work for my used strips. It's like my own little bio-hazard container.
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annie
dx T2 9/1/09
meds: glucovance, actos, lipitor
hovering between bright optimism and being scared out of my freakin' mind
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10-02-2009, 03:34 PM
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Posts: 603
| | | I use OneTouch Ultra, but also have some Freestyle that I'm using up. I actually prefer the Accu-chek Aviva but with my pumps meters using Freestyle (Cozmo) and Onetouch (Ping) I use those for convenience. I actually hated Onetouch strips, but the new design seems to work much better. It doesn't matter what meter I use, I will always use the Accu-chek Multiclix lancet device! Just wish they could come up with a smaller design.
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Katherine
type 1 (1.5) 12 years, Pumper 6 1/2 years? or so.
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10-02-2009, 04:10 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Brazil
Posts: 273
| | | I like the bayer breeze 2 because it holds 10 strips inside, you just push the thing and a new strip comes out. It also seemed very accurate to me.
Now I'm using an accu-check performa and I don't like having to manually insert each strip and it doesn't seem very accurate.
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Diagnosed 03/27/09
MDI - Lantus & Humalog
A1c
Mar 09 - 10.5
Jun 09 - 5.4
Sep 09 - 5.4 |
10-02-2009, 04:49 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: May 2004 Location: NC
Posts: 8,563
| | | Jer, I use the One Touch line. I have an Ultra, an UltraSmart, an Ultra 2, and 2 Mini's (purple and green).
I do use the Reli-On as a backup. The foil covered strips are nice but in a low situation, they can be a pain to tear open.
I got a free Aviva in the mail but the darn thing hasn't worked from the beginning. I need to send it back but I'm not sure if I want to bother since it was free.
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10-02-2009, 05:03 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Houston, TX
Posts: 489
| | | I only use the One Touch Ultra-Mini these days (I have two - one for backup). It's small and simple and has a decent test memory which is the only thing I need since I don't want to input other factors. I started on the One Touch behemoth back in the day and have stuck with the brand ever since.
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Type 1 since 02/1990
Humalog/newly on Levemir from Lantus, going to try to make the switch to NovoLog, too..
a1c
09/09 - 6.2
05/09 - 6.1
02/09 - 6.7
“For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.” |
10-02-2009, 05:04 PM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Henderson, Nevada
Posts: 15
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Originally Posted by jer.lawrence I'm just wondering what type of Meter most of you guys prefer. If you have a preference, why?
I use the OneTouch Ultra2 just because it's the brand I'd heard of and the pharmacist suggested. I'm looking into getting an Ultra Mini as well for work since it uses the same type of test strips and lancets.
I would be curious if others like a certain one significantly more though. | I have all of the OneTouch meters listed, and I've used them all. But I now have a OneTouch Ping pump from Animas, and I now use their meter, a OneTouch Ping meter.
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See Ya,
John
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10-02-2009, 05:13 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: UK
Posts: 877
| | I use an ascensia contour, it was the meter I started when I was diagnosed. Although they have upgraded the model now its been very reliable and done the trick. However recently the meter has started to go a bit mental, mindu it has done like 6839 tests over 763 days with only one battery change . I can't complain too much and hopefully they will send me a new one soon. |
10-02-2009, 06:21 PM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Portland, OR
Posts: 621
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Originally Posted by johnleveritt I have all of the OneTouch meters listed, and I've used them all. But I now have a OneTouch Ping pump from Animas, and I now use their meter, a OneTouch Ping meter. | Like John, I too have a Ping ( pink) so I use the ping meter so I can bolus right from the meter when needed. I have a back up pink ultra mini 2. 
__________________  Humulin U-500 Pumping Pink Ping
Metformin 850mg 3x a day
Cpap 18 Cm H2o with Ultra Mirage Full Face Mask
Aspirin 162 mg a day
Zetia 10mg a day
Tricor 145mg a day
Benazepril 20mg a day
Dyazide 27.5-25mg a day
Metoprolol 50mg a day
Lyrica 50mg 2x day
Vicadin 325 x 5 2x a day
Fish Oil - Glucostimine - Vit D
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10-02-2009, 06:35 PM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Missouri, US
Posts: 73
| | | I primarily use a Contour and keep a OneTouch UltraMini in my purse as a backup.
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a.k.a. Natalie
DX: 29 Jan 09
A1Cs: 13.54% on 29 Jan 09 | 8.1% on 09 Mar 09 | 5.4% on 13 May 09 | 4.9% on 14 Aug 09 | 5.4% on 13 Nov 09
Jan 09 lipids: total 179, HDL 30, triglycerides 432
Aug 09 lipids: total 182, HDL 37, triglycerides 118, LDL 121, VLDL 24
Nov 09 lipids: total 230, HDL 47, triglycerides 198, LDL 143
Metformin ER, Gemfibrozil, Carvedilol, Naproxen b.i.d.
Multivitamin, vitamin D3, low-dose aspirin, Citalopram, Avandia, Pravastatin q.d. |
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