Getting free upgraded meters from Freestyle

[Lanny]

I finally got an answer to my email to Freestyle Abbott I sent last month about upgrading my Freestyle mini meter I’ve been using for 10+ years, maybe even as long as 15?! 🙄

I’d forgotten about it & was surprised by their email yesterday. They were happy to send me a free meter upon joining their Freestyle Progress Programme. I joined & contacted their Upgrade Meter line, via email. I told them I was testing about 8-12 times a day after being ill in hospital last May 2017 due to high doses of steroids, & the ongoing effects to BS, & needed the tests for my hospital team to adjust my insulin doses. I also, told them I was interested in their insulinx meter as I’ll be learning to carb count soon. They’re going to send me a freedom lite & an insulinx meter. Wow! 🙂

The freedom lite is more or less the same as the freestyle mini; just upgraded & a bit bigger. The insulinx looks huge but, has the useful insulin dose calculator based on your BS & the carbs you eat.

Does anyone have any recent experiences of the insulinx? I already searched these forums for threads about it. It seems there were initial teething problems & a code was required for the insulin calculator, which some members helpfully posted too. Are those problems sorted out now & do I still use the same code for the insulin calculator?

 

[Lanny]

Update!

It took a while to arrive but, got the meters in the post this morning. A big box of the two meters’ starter kits, data cable, software CD, control solutions &, admittedly tiny, monitor diary!

Have now got the, still working perfectly, Freestyle mini, new Freestyle freedom lite & new Freestyle InsuLinx.

 

[Lanny]

Umm! mini reads 7.8, freedom lite reads 8.2 & insulinx reads 7.9! All from the same drop of blood within seconds of each other. I know which one I’m recording! Such variations!

 

[everydayupsanddowns]

Umm! mini reads 7.8, freedom lite reads 8.2 & insulinx reads 7.9! All from the same drop of blood within seconds of each other. I know which one I’m recording! Such variations!

I'd count those as identical readings @Lanny - just 0.4 mmol/L between them. Most likely just a little enzyme/strip variation. Strip manufacture can only be so precise. +/-15% variation still falls within the ISO requirements for BG meters which is a good deal more than your results there. If you'd got 6.8, 8.0 and 9.4 you would have been (quite rightly) a bit horrified by the range - but that is the outer limit of accuracy that BG meters are required to achieve

I think it's important for people to remember the imperfect tools we are using when using BG results to inform diet choices. I feel you shouldn't feel that a particular food is 'out' based on one unwelcome set of results. Checking again might give a different perspective.