best blood glucose meter

[dx052]

I have been recently told I have Type Diabetes and I am trying to figure out the best blood glucose meter out there. When I left hospital they gave me a basic reader with lancets which I have been using for the most part, its very basic but gets the job done, I also been given from a Diabetic nurse a Accu Check glucose meter that you can have the readings sent to your phone to an app but its not very easy to get the blood in the right place to get a reading so you end up wasting cassettes. I was wondering if there other readers out there that are better than what I have got? besides that one by Abbots!!

 

[grovesy]

Abbot meters are usally held in high regard.

 

[Kaylz]

is the one you have a Freestyle Optium Neo? they tend to be the ones handed out when first diagnosed as they give both BG readings and ketone readings as well, not many meters have both functions, I didn't think the cassettes were to be any more difficult than any regular testing strips and if your in the UK at least and Type 1 you don't really get the option to pick and choose what meter you use as you get given whatever the CCG in your area has approved and have on their prescribing list, I have an Accu-Chek meter (not the same as yours as yours is being rolled out as mines is being discontinued) and I have to say I am more of a fan but that's more because the strips are in a pot and not individually wrapped in foil but what you've been given is the standard and as I say they wont prescribe it if its not been approved xx

 

[rebrascora]

You will need a meter which can also check for ketones. My consultant wanted me to have the Caresens Dual for that reason.
I really like the Contour Next One because it is so small but my GP practice will not prescribe strips for it, so that is a no go for me and I will be getting the Abbott Freestyle Libre sensors in the near future, so it will be less of an issue once that happens.

I guess it depends what you want from your meter.... ie, do you want it to calculate bolus corrections etc, be simple and straight forward to use or small and easy to carry or have some other fancy tech functions

 

[dx052]

is the one you have a Freestyle Optium Neo? they tend to be the ones handed out when first diagnosed as they give both BG readings and ketone readings as well, not many meters have both functions, I didn't think the cassettes were to be any more difficult than any regular testing strips and if your in the UK at least and Type 1 you don't really get the option to pick and choose what meter you use as you get given whatever the CCG in your area has approved and have on their prescribing list, I have an Accu-Chek meter (not the same as yours as yours is being rolled out as mines is being discontinued) and I have to say I am more of a fan but that's more because the strips are in a pot and not individually wrapped in foil but what you've been given is the standard and as I say they wont prescribe it if its not been approved xx

I have a AgaMatrix Jazz that I got from the hospital and the Accu Chek Mobile that I got from my GP

 

[mikeyB]

The Libre meter measures ketones as well if you use the ketone strips, as I discovered after my recent brush with DKA. Mind, that's a rare occasion when I see the need to measure ketones.

 

[everydayupsanddowns]

I have been using Contour Next meters (because the communicate wirelessly with my insulin pump) for the last 5-6 years and they are just about the most reliable and accurate I’ve used.

In the past I’ve had meters where if I didn’t ‘like’ the number shown I could have another go and more often than not it would be a couple of digits different. Contour Next meters have always been very consistent in the numbers they give from two drops of blood a minute or two apart. They are small and handy to carry too 🙂