I’m experimenting with the Compact meter, and I am finding out some interesting things.<\/p>\n
First, it isn’t compact. It’s at least one third more of the mass of the Flash. Meaning that it probably won’t fit in my immediate bag. Second, it’s SLOW! <\/p>\n
Something interesting is that I NEVER get a decent test the first few times ou use a new meter. First of all, you have to lose some muscle memory, and learn new habits. If you test any length of time at all, you have a ritual. Or at least I do.<\/p>\n
If you are a meter manufacturer, I highly recommend you do what Accu-check does. Don’t throw in 10 lousy strips. Put in at least 50 strips. Accu-check puts 3 drums in their sample box, and my CDE gave me three more drums. That means I have 102 to play with. <\/p>\n
Why did they pick 17 tests? It isn’t even divisible by anything. I’d have put 15 in, and made it smaller. Or 10. Weird.<\/p>\n
After about 3 tests, the results on the two meters started converging. At first they were as much as 50 points apart, and now I am getting tests with 10 points of each other, which is as much as you can ever hope for.<\/p>\n
Fun little factoid — you never get a real number on a blood sugar test, all you are getting is trends. That’s even true with the A1C — actually more true, because that’s a so called 3 month average, but it doesn’t really work quite that way either.<\/p>\n
Just have to learn which trends to follow when it comes to correcting.<\/p>\n
So I haven’t decided which to go with, but I’m definately going to go with one more round of Freestyle while the copay is still $80, not $120.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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