The Maxima Meter

It seems to me that if one day somebady discovery real cause, prevention and cure for diabetes type two, it will have devastating efect on diabetes industry and devastating effect on diabetes profesionals. In that case the diabetes industry will stay without castomers and diabetes profesional will stay without castomers and without job.

Personaly, I don't have anything against the diabetes industry and I don't have anything against the diabetes profesionals but I strongly believe that day will come soon.

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

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

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

David

I just blogged about the cost of test strips the other day. It's nice to see another company launch a new product with lower cost strips.

I'll have to contact Jennifer about reviewing this for them. I'm interested in seeing what the user experience and usability is like.