Advantages: Easy to use, preserves fingers! Disadvantages: Some machines are faster
Not sure if I have listed this in the right place ? Apologies if not!
I?ve been diabetic for over 26 years; in fact, it?s how I met my husband, who?s been a diabetic for over 33 years!
Blood testing meters are such a hit or miss affair, and I have found it difficult to find reviews when updating our machines. Hooray for Ciao!
My husband had recently replaced his old meter with an Accu-Chek Advantage, and spoke very highly of it, so I thought I would ?borrow? his for a day or two and see if it was suitable for me too.
To be honest, I have always been very skeptical of the ?Virtually pain free? claims made by many companies regarding their finger-prickers. Do these people ever test these things on themselves?!
The Advantage finger-pricker has an easily adjustable depth and it took me just two goes to find the perfect ...
Advantages: quick small Disadvantages: i have not found any
There are now hundreds of glucose monitors on the market today, the one I use is the Glucotrend Accu-Chek Active, boots currently have them on sale for £15.99 remember if you have type one you don?t have to pay vat on medical equipment so you fill in a vat free declaration form and get it cheaper. I got mine free from the diabetic clinic.
The machine comes with a finger pricker, a small vial of test strips and a few lancets. You need to set the time date and whether you want it on 12h or 24h clock.
You should then wash your hands, then remove a lancet and place it in the pricker. Then remove the chip from the test strips and insert it into the machine. Every time you get a new set of strips you will also get a new chip the chip must be changed with every new set of strips or the machine will not work properly. Remove a test strip ...
Advantages: Nice easy to use features and operating Disadvantages: even though designed for in dark, cannot use.
I have always used tyhe Accu-Chek range and this is my latest meter. Its a nice looking meter and takes simple and easy to use loading the drum cartridges and no fuss when testing on the move. It is black with a bright green display which is for use in the dark i guess but the only problem with that is you cant see your finger or where to put the strip to suck the blood into the strip. so i didnt see the point of using it in the dark. If you dont keep it in the case it comes with you will get a error 5 come up which means there is dirt in the machine, and this happens a lot so you always need to have the case with the machine inside. I had problems with one, where it failed to load but accu check replaced it as i had it registered, so make sure you do that. also free batterys for life. ...
