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Senior LCF Member
Join Date: Jan 2013
Location: Atlanta, GA
Posts: 375
Gallery: sarahatl
WOE: No Flour No Sugar
Start Date: May 2013
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best blood glucose monitor for price?
Greetings:
I am looking to purchase a blood glucose monitor for a reasonable price. This is something that insurance will not be available for but needs to be reliable and easy to use. Can any one help me out with this? Seems like amazon would be a good place to start. Can someone send me a link for a good one? Thank you so much for your help! |
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Junior LCF Member
Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: Minneapolis MN
Posts: 24
Gallery: amundson
Stats: 285/164/155
WOE: Atkins (w/ Protein Power ideas also)
Start Date: April 2010
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In the long term it is the cost of the strips that matters. Check out Consumer Reports magazine (can I recommend that?) For an analysis of the yearly costs. Diabetes educators sometimes give away meters but those tend to be the meters with high priced strips. Think about total cost rather than just the cost of the meter.
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Join Date: Jan 2013
Posts: 2
Gallery: Irishgirl57
Stats: 278/245/169
WOE: HFLC NK
Start Date: Atkins Nov 2012/HFLC Jan 2013
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I purchased a secondary monitor at Walmart, the Relion Prime, with the cheapest test strips @ $9 for a box of 50. The monitor was about $15. I received a One-Touch monitor from the doctors office and a prescription for test strips and lancets. The prescription only allows for two testings per day. I wanted to really figure out what my readings were throughout the day, not just fasting and one additional reading.
It's the cost of the strips that I wanted to find the lowest price possible. Occasionally I compare to the One-Touch monitor and they are within a point of each other. |
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Join Date: Jan 2013
Location: Atlanta, GA
Posts: 375
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WOE: No Flour No Sugar
Start Date: May 2013
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Thank you Irishgirl (love that name!!). I just went to target and bought their brand. I did look into Consumer Reports and they recommended it. I bought the monitor for $23 and 50 strips for $50! I got home all ready to check and wouldn't you know I need some kind of testing solution I need to use first. Now I need to go all the way back to Target to get the solution to use first! So frustrating! Did you need to do that with your monitor before you used it?
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Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Louisiana
Posts: 54
Gallery: Dede66
Stats: 168/ 167/140
WOE: low carb
Start Date: 6/12/06
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I use the walmart brand relion prime too because the test strips are 9 bucks cant beat that !
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Join Date: Jan 2013
Posts: 2
Gallery: Irishgirl57
Stats: 278/245/169
WOE: HFLC NK
Start Date: Atkins Nov 2012/HFLC Jan 2013
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Join Date: Jan 2013
Location: Atlanta, GA
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Join Date: Mar 2011
Posts: 96
Gallery: NAT&RD
Stats: (5'4") 138/116/116
WOE: MODERATE CARBS
Start Date: 2008
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Not a vial, you stick your finger like for regular testing, put the blood drops on what looks like a circle of gauze in a cardboard frame, mail the whole thing in in the prepaid envelope. Get the results on line in about a week.
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Join Date: Dec 2011
Location: Texas
Posts: 1,470
Gallery: Vilya
Stats: 248/244.8/240
WOE: Fung-ian fasting and lower carb (I am T2 diabetic)
Start Date: Every day is a new start
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You don't need control solution, unless you're ever using strips that you think might be expired.
I have the ReliOn Confirm, and I really like it. It's accurate, and the strips are $36 for 100. The Prime has cheaper strips, but my fellow diabetics report lower accuracy than the Confirm. I also buy Walmart's disposable Sidekick meter, which I use as a backup. That one is $20 and comes as a unit with the meter and 50 strips together. You throw the whole thing away when the strips run out. My first meter was a OneTouch Ultra2, which I liked very much, but the strips were killing me.
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