😳09:51 BS 7.2
🙂 Made me jump a bit looking at my iPhone screen for the time then, remembered the BST change so, for once, changed the meter clock before taking my reading: usually takes me at least the 2nd reading before I realise to do it manually; the other thing needed a manual change is a watch! Only my watch has stopped working for a good few months now & before that about a year: it needed a new battery which I eventually changed at my town centre jewellers a few months ago; but, as with all my water resistant watches in the past once the battery is changed it stops being so & the water gets in si, the watch stops working! WHY IS THAT?
😡 I haven’t gotten around to getting a new watch yet but, gotten used to doing without one!
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A Very Good Morning to you all & have a Wonderful Day!
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Silly numpty just realised something yesterday when I got through the post the batteries & control solution, might as well get that too, from GlucoRx! For the last 4 years I had the GlucoRx Blue system & never used it because I didn’t know I could with the nexus mini ultra meter!
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When I first joined the forum in March 2018 it was because all of a sudden my health centre changed all my Freestyle test strips to GlucoRx nexus & I didn’t have any of there meters: for 3 months this kept happening but, my kindly chemist switched them for my freestyle ones & couldn’t do so anymore; searched online for Freestyle strips to buy & the cheapest was the Diabetes UK online store so, discovered the forum!
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Even so, I eventually couldn’t afford to keep buying strips so, eventually bought the cheapest nexus meter possible on amazon which was the Go meter that’s literally clipped onto the top of a pot of strips but, it has no memory at all! So, I bought the dongle to go with it & the app on my phone! I used that for about a month or so before
@Northerner helped me to argue my need for the freestyle strips I was used to using to my health centre & my strips were changed back! But, only for about a month before they said no other strips allowed & gave me 2 nexus mini ultra meters to use!
In yesterday’s postage pack of batteries etc. there was an instruction leaflet as well about the meter being compatible with the Blue system & I thought “Great!” & transferred all of the 999 readings from my current meter & the 2nd meter but, unfortunately the very 1st meter I couldn’t access at all: my meters had kept periodically stopped working due to using Duracell & NOT using their own batteries; solved that problem now & the battery was successfully changed last week & meter still working on their own batteries!
So, now I have all my meter readings for the last few years, with some gaps due to overwritten memory readings, on the 1000th reading the older readings are overwritten & lost, & it’s all connected to the Health & Mysugr apps on my iPhone!
My estimated Hab1c is at 59 & that gives me a bit of encouragement to see it going down even though it’s only been a month since my review & Bab1c of 68.
Mind you, the real test, as always, is comparing that to the next REAL Hab1c. Back when I was laboriously manually imputing my readings into the mysugr app the estimated was always lower than what it turned out to be but, still it gives me a rough idea!
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Numpty that I am I had all this all these years & didn’t know it!
😳 I do now & will continue using it: sticking in the dongle to update the new reading/s when I test & the data gives me much better insight with graphs etc etc etc!
& a Lightbulb emoji!
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