If diabetes has an up side, one good thing about the huge number of people who have it is that we make an attractive market for people who want to sell to us. Nowhere is this more clear than in the many blood glucose meters that companies offer us.The choices are overwhelming. My meters page lists an...
The Maxima Meter
4/ 2/08 2:25am
Your comment on the software to download the results to a computer was interesting.
There are a few sites out there that are helping make it possible to track sugars without using any software.
One example is www.fighttype2.com that I run myself. I use it becuase I sometimes have to change meters as the insurance companies change them on me. Not fair to keep buying software from each company. Personally the meter folks should give the software away free.
Another example is the www.sugarstats.com site. This one is great for folks that are testing lots of times a day.
There are more sites and most of them are free.
We need to lower the cost of the daily maintenance of the disease and then maybe the research can focus on finding a cure or maybe the reason there are more and more people being diagnosed each day.
- Anil
4/ 4/08 6:08pm
Just looking at it, it seems to be based on the One Touch. You can often determine the manufacturer of fridges, ranges, cars, and likely meters by looking at key elements.
Res accuracy of meters in general. They advertise being within 10% accuracy generally, but this figure is probably used to protect themselves in law suits. In my experience they usually are within 4 or 5%. And in fact I use my meter to CONFIRM what I think my BGs will be at any given time. If they are 10% off what I am expecting, I check with another brand of meter. When I have a lab test, I bring both meters and test. The lab test has always confirmed the one I think is closest. Right now I am using a One Touch as my primary and a Walmart Relyon as back up. The Relyon was been right more often than not when the two disagree. RobLL
4/ 9/08 6:52pm
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Hi David,
I followed the link inthe article to your meter page. The link for US Diagnostic is not working.
FYI, thanks for the article. I have been using the LifeTouch basic meter and a box of 100 test strips is about $80. I find myself not wanting to test my blood sugar as often as I should due to the cost of these strips. The maxima product you mentioned sounds great because the price of the test scripts is so much less.
Cheers,
Dennis
Dear Dennis,
Actually, I forget to provide the link to US Diagnostics. But you are right that the link to that company's site, http://www.usdiagnostics.net/ , is not working this evening. I will try again tomorrow and add it when it is working. Thanks for your message.
Best regards,
David