{"id":4058,"date":"2003-03-01T10:28:27","date_gmt":"2003-03-01T10:28:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/blood-sugar-mon-2\/"},"modified":"2003-03-01T10:28:27","modified_gmt":"2003-03-01T10:28:27","slug":"blood-sugar-mon-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/blood-sugar-mon-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Blood Sugar Monitor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"TheraSense | FreeStyle\" href=\"http:\/\/www.therasense.com\/freestyle\/\">TheraSense | FreeStyle<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\nThis is the blood sugar monitor I use.  My insurance company wants me to go to an Accu-Check monitor, but I like this one too much.  The extra copay is worth it.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>It does alternative site testing.  I generally use my right forearm, and after 6 months of testing, I have a nice set of scabs.  That&#8217;s okay, because I can now use the lancelet at depth 1, and never feel the lancelet at all.<\/p>\n<p>\nTheir television commercials are right!<\/p>\n<p>And if you have a good monitor and it doesn&#8217;t hurt, you will test more often.<\/p>\n<p>Several of my friends have tried it, and they like it better than their meters too.  <\/p>\n<p>A good review:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.diabetestown.com\/diabetesinfo\/reviews\/freestyle.html\">Freestyle Review<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Customer service is great with them.  I put a Radio Shack battery in mine, and it promptly started going south.  I called the 1-800 number at 9:30 pm and someone was right on the line with me.  Unfortunately the silly thing stopped failing.<\/p>\n<p>Next morning it started acting up again.  I called, and again someone right on the line.  We both figured it was the test strips (I forgot I&#8217;d changed the battery).  He sent me a broken monitor kit, which included a new monitor and new test strips.<\/p>\n<p>A few hours later, I got home and was using a different lot of test strips entirely, it was still acting goofy.  Talked to another customer service rep, who ordered me a broken monitor kit.<\/p>\n<p>Now here&#8217;s the fun part.  I ended up with an extra meter, an extra lancing device, 200 extra test strips, a new video on how to use the meter, and extra lances.  Boy did I end up ahead.  I had no idea they were both sending me extra monitor kits, but they should have known.  I never have heard what was happened.<\/p>\n<p>FYI:  that&#8217;s when I hit my first low, and I didn&#8217;t treat it right away as I knew I couldn&#8217;t get that low, I&#8217;d just read a medical journal that say Type 2&#8217;s didn&#8217;t get too low.  I am not willing to bet the author is right, just because I stayed conscious that time.<\/p>\n<p>There is also a data connect and software system but I have not sprung for that yet.  I do well with my Palm Pilot (see software).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TheraSense | FreeStyle This is the blood sugar monitor I use. My insurance company wants me to go to an Accu-Check monitor, but I like this one too much. The extra copay is worth it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[50],"class_list":["post-4058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gadgets","tag-blood-sugar-monitor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4058\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}