Hi Everyone. can some of you lovely people advise me of the best testing kits to buy. The one i bought was us readings and not Eu.

[jane58]

Hi Everyone, can some of you lovely people advise me of the best testing kits to buy. The one i bought was wrong it had only us settings mg/dl instead of EU mmol/l. 🙂

 

[Windy]

Hi Jane, I've got a Gluco Navii which was recommended by members of the forum. It does the readings in mmol/l. I was also recommended another one, which I think was the Spirit Tee 2, but hopefully someone will pitch in if I've misremembered that.
They both come with cheaper test strips.
Cheers, Sarah

 

[Sally71]

In the meantime, if you want to use up the strips for the one you have, just divide the numbers by 18 to get result in mmol/L

 

[everydayupsanddowns]

Is there a setting hidden somewhere which allows you to switch units @jane58?

The most affordable meters members here have found are the SD Gluco Navii or the Spirit Tee2 - which both have test strips at around £8 for 50.

Which meter have you got?

 

[Sally71]

That's a good question @everydayupsanddowns - why is it that kitchen scales, thermometers etc all have settings to change between F and C or kg and lb, but blood meters all seem to be calibrated as either mg/dl or mmol/L and have no setting to switch between them?

 

[Docb]

I have an Accucheck perform nano supplied a few years ago by my surgery. That comes either calibrated for mmol/l or mg/dl - it tells you on the back which one the meter you have is calibrated to. You cannot switch between them.

I'm guessing that the innards of these things are pretty standard, especially for any particular manufacturer. Again I'm guessing but I would not be surprised to find they all use the same chip set knocked out for pence as a complete unit in some far eastern plant. A lot of this stuff, although quite remarkable, is nowhere near as clever as the glossy websites would have you believe. You sometimes have to go into the small print to find out what the limitations are. They never appear amongst the headlines.

 

[pinkjude]

Hi Jane, I've got a Gluco Navii which was recommended by members of the forum. It does the readings in mmol/l. I was also recommended another one, which I think was the Spirit Tee 2, but hopefully someone will pitch in if I've misremembered that.
They both come with cheaper test strips.
Cheers, Sarah

I also use the gluco navii. Got mine from home health. the starter kit which includes the meter, lancing device, carry case, some lancets and some test strips cost 10.00. You get everything VAT free on their site if you are a diabetic. Friendly helpful staff too. Its easy to use and cheaper strips etc than most

 

[harbottle]

If you want accuracies and consistency, I find my Countour Next and TrueMetrix devices give good results. Both have expensive strips, though. I don't use many, so, tend to prefer these two devices over my Gluco Navii as they have decent mobile app integration.