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Blood testing at home

Cas67

Cas67

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Type 2
Hi, I have just purchased a box of GlucoseRx lancets. It does not have the testing strips, i thought the box had all i needed in it,
I have looked on Amazon and I am totally confused, I only need the strips (I think) to go with my purchase please help, what do I get so I can read my blood sample
 
Cas67 said:
Hi, I have just purchased a box of GlucoseRx lancets. It does not have the testing strips, I have looked on Amazon and I am totally confused, I only want the strips (I think) please help, what do I get so I can read my blood sample
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You need three things: a meter, test strips for that meter, and a way to get a drop of blood.

The lancets are basically pointy bits of metal inside a little bit of shaped plastic, and usually they fit into a lancet device, so if you have a lancet device you'll want lancets that fit into that device. Commonly glucose meters are sold with a lancet device and some (a small number of) lancets and test strips.

https://forum.diabetes.org.uk/board...for-people-new-to-diabetes.10406/#post-938458 has links for the SD Gluco Navii and the Spirit Tee which have reasonably cheap test strips (which are what you'll spend most money on, presuming you don't get test strips on prescription).

(You don't need to match the lancets with the glucose meter, though it obviously makes sense to begin with presuming the meter comes with a lancet device. There's a decent chance your GlucoseRx lancets will fit in whatever lancet devices come with whatever meter you buy. The main one where that's unlikely is the Accu-chek FastClix.)
 
I have a GlucoRX and BG monitor and it came with the monitor, a lancet device, and 10 lancets and a few test strips (maybe 10). It also came with a little bottle of test fluid, used initially to test/calibrate the monitor.
I had to order the spare / extra test strips separately. They come in a little tubes of 50. Think I got mine from Diabetic Supply, about £10.
Cheers
 
The main thing is the meter. They often come with a fingerpricker, a few lancets and a few strips. It sounds like you’ve inadvertently bought a subsection (lancets) of the main thing (meter plus extras). If you look at the meter you want to buy, it should tell you if it comes with a fingerpricker and lancets and strips.
 
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