Anyone else got a Safe-Accu? Just got 4 consecutive readings with a swing between 7.9 - 1.8!

[Madeline]

So fairly obviously it’s a pile of inaccurate ****. I ordered it by accident from Amazon, thinking I’d ordered the Codefree, which I’ve now ordered.

And now I don’t know why I’m awake and feeling c**p.

 

[mikeyB]

I can beat that. My cheapo Tee2, which I was using because of a hypo, told me I was 27.1 after three jelly babies. Sugar on the fingers. Soon turned to 5.9 on the stick test. The Libre was no help, it still thought I was 2.4.

Sometimes you just can’t win.

In your situation, I’d eliminate the highest and lowest and take an average of the two in the middle. That’s the way Scientists fiddle their results

 

[Madeline]

27!

Yep I’d already totally dismissed the 1.8 on the grounds that I’d not likely be lucid enough to test. Your ‘method’ seems pretty sensible, so I’m going to have a rye cracker and go to sleep.

Honestly, b****y meters!

 

[mumpat888]

Hi Madeline , I know this is ages after your original question but I am looking on here to see if anyone else has an Accu-chek and how accurate it is !!
I've had mine for 3 years and its been ok up to the last month or so but now the readings can be ok for a day or two then jump up high low high low ! Don't know if its the meter or me ! My last Hab1c was okish so I'm tempted to abandon the meter . Waiting for the new sort to come on the market .🙄

 

[becca19962014]

I've accu-chek mobile. I've had odd readings but usually it's been down to temperature of the unit of sugar on fingers. Generally speaking I find it's accurate.

However, since they changed the test cassettes I've noticed I've had some with errors which I've needed to replace. How old is the cassette you're using?

I buy a new meter every 18 months as the technology in them is changed frequently.

 

[Bruce Stephens]

I've accu-chek mobile. I've had odd readings but usually it's been down to temperature of the unit of sugar on fingers. Generally speaking I find it's accurate.

The photos don't look like an Accu Chek anything. By the looks of it they're from Sinocare (judging by what's on Amazon), though the photos don't quite correspond to the photos on Amazon.

I've had a couple of the Accu Check line, and they've seemed fine to me.

One of the reviews of one of the Sinocare meters (Safe AQ, I think) said that a pharmacy didn't know anything about the meter, and that they couldn't get test strips prescribed.

 

[trophywench]

I have an Accu Chek meter and have only very very occasionally had a weird result. Being as all my meters since 2009 have had to be able to be linked to my insulin pumps, I'd be pretty knackered if they weren't reliable!

I do get the odd strip that the meter just can't 'read' and still keeps telling me to 'Insert strip' when I have already, LOL Just chuck it away and use another one when that happens.

Last year there were two great long lists of strip serial numbers that Roche recalled - wonder if the ones you have are on that list? It's online on the Accu-Chek website somewhere I think.

 

[Bruce Stephens]

Last year there were two great long lists of strip serial numbers that Roche recalled - wonder if the ones you have are on that list? It's online on the Accu-Chek website somewhere I think.

I don't think this is an Accu-Chek meter at all (and presumably doesn't use their test strips) so I'm guessing that's not it. (It may be that these Safe Accu test strips were also faulty, of course. But I don't think there's any reason to think there'd be any connection.)

 

[Robin]

I don't think this is an Accu-Chek meter at all (and presumably doesn't use their test strips) so I'm guessing that's not it. (It may be that these Safe Accu test strips were also faulty, of course. But I don't think there's any reason to think there'd be any connection.)

I suspect it depends whether you’re looking at the original post, or Mumpat's revival of it earlier today. Mumpat is asking specifically about an Accuchek, not the Safe Accu as mentioned in the original post back in December.

 

[Bruce Stephens]

I suspect it depends whether you’re looking at the original post, or Mumpat's revival of it earlier today. Mumpat is asking specifically about an Accuchek, not the Safe Accu as mentioned in the original post back in December.

Fair point. And to answer the second question, many people will have Accu-Chek meters (there's a number of different ones) and find them reasonably reliable. (How accurate they are isn't something most of us check, though I suppose we should all be checking with a test solution at least once in a while.)

 

[mumpat888]

Thanks everyone for all your input . Perhaps I had some residue on my finger sometimes after washing my hands , there's so much sweet stuff in soaps nowadays you practically have to scrub it off before a test ! I know if I exercise enough and eat sensibly my BG should be fine , so I'm not going to stress about it . Hopefully the new testing thing will soon be on the market 🙂

 

[mumpat888]

Fair point. And to answer the second question, many people will have Accu-Chek meters (there's a number of different ones) and find them reasonably reliable. (How accurate they are isn't something most of us check, though I suppose we should all be checking with a test solution at least once in a while.)

Bruce and Robin , you're both right in what you say , the Accu-chek is usually reliable and the original post was a Safe-accu . I got in a muddle about the name , sorry ! I saw Safe-accu and read Accu-chek ! Ignore me - having a moment 🙄