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Contour USB meter- new version coming out! And pump friendly!

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Sugarbum

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I went to a works promotional thingy today by Bayer (we use their meters). You may interested to know that there is a new version of the USB coming out this summer with the medtronic link in, also it will have more software in that carb counts and helps adjust insulin- pretty much like the pump itself.

She also told me that ANYONE in her catchment area who is either type 1 or type 2 on insulin is entitled to a free USB meter. My face was in disgust! I coughed up my money like alot of peeps on here did and now they are free! Nice lady offered me one when it comes out, so I shall keep her business card 😉 but it sounds like they will be free anyway as was the meter with the link I received when I started pumping.

Hope that cheers people up, unless like me you bought one on the internet! 🙂
 
The rep I saw a couple of weeks ago told me that each rep can give 30 out each month free if a DSN asks them for a patient. So if you want one then ask your DSN to get one from the rep for you.
 
I've probably asked before, but does anyone know if the software works with 64-bit Windows 7? My old XP machine is really on it's last legs!
 
Hi Sugarbum,
Thanks for letting us know - it sounds great. Alex was given a free one from a rep - he loved the meter but really didnt like the pricker and we would have had to have changed the strips we use so we dont bother with it. But if it offers some more helpful data and the pricker has been changed then we might look into it.🙂Bev
 
shiv said:
Bev, why not just use whichever finger pricker he likes? I use the Contour USB but the Accuchek Multiclix device.
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Hi Shiv,
To be honest - I think the novelty wore off with it. I was loathe to go and change the whole prescription just in case Alex then decided he wanted his nano back. I only mentioned the pricker just in case others were thinking of buying one and didnt like it when it arrived. I did let the rep know about the pricker and he said it was a common complaint.😱🙂Bev
 
Its funny you say that about the finger pricker, the rep passed it about the group and even we found it fiddly. She is going to send some stickers for the meters that I liked (obviously they are for me and not the prisoners!) but I will get a USB with the medtronic link when it comes out. I feel abit guilty about the waste though....

She tells me Bayer is number one in the market at the mo with Acci-check their biggest meter competitor (I wanted to ask was that so prior to the USB but I felt a bit rude too!), I was suprised, thinking it would be Lifescan/One Touch.
 
Tsk! And I didn't even have a fiver off voucher code when I bought mine! 🙄

Cheers for the tip off though SB, hope all hip in your world 🙂

Rossi
 
So Bayer have decided after the entire D population (inc Rossie of the Mac) bought a USB meter online to now give them away free....

....in the words of Elton John, "it's a little bit funny....."
 
Northerner said:
I've probably asked before, but does anyone know if the software works with 64-bit Windows 7? My old XP machine is really on it's last legs!
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It should; Bayer have ditched the old WinGlucofacts (Windows-specific) software and replaced it with a Java version called simply Glucofacts; so it should work on any system capable of running a Java Virtual Machine -- not just Windows (which certainly includes your high-end Win7 box; it works fine on my three-year-old laptop and desktop machines) but Mac and (hooray!) Linux as well.

Incidentally (I bought my Contour USB a year ago this month; I may have been one of the very first adopters, I found it because I Googled for USB glucose meters), does anyone know how I can export my meter's readings to a CSV file so I can import them into Excel? That's the only facility of WinGlucofacts I ever used, and Bayer seem to have removed it (and have no intention of reinstating it)...
 
I do love my Contour USB. If it spoke with my pump and things like that then it would be very nice. Then again, I don't need much other than what the USB I have means that I wouldn't really use it. That and I have nothing too complex about ratios and that so would I really need to transfer blood results to my pump and that? I think not.
 
robert@fm said:
It should; Bayer have ditched the old WinGlucofacts (Windows-specific) software and replaced it with a Java version called simply Glucofacts; so it should work on any system capable of running a Java Virtual Machine -- not just Windows (which certainly includes your high-end Win7 box; it works fine on my three-year-old laptop and desktop machines) but Mac and (hooray!) Linux as well.

Incidentally (I bought my Contour USB a year ago this month; I may have been one of the very first adopters, I found it because I Googled for USB glucose meters), does anyone know how I can export my meter's readings to a CSV file so I can import them into Excel? That's the only facility of WinGlucofacts I ever used, and Bayer seem to have removed it (and have no intention of reinstating it)...
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Thanks Robert - welcome to the forum by the way! 🙂 Sounds promising, hopefully someone can answer your question about the export facility 🙂
 
Oooh! How do I get one? :D
 
Sugarbum said:
I went to a works promotional thingy today by Bayer (we use their meters). You may interested to know that there is a new version of the USB coming out this summer with the medtronic link in, also it will have more software in that carb counts and helps adjust insulin- pretty much like the pump itself.
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Could I ask a stupid question? 😛 You say it's got a Medtronic link in, how does that work? I'll be getting a Medtronic pump soon so would this be something I could look into getting to make things easier?
 
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