[Diabetes-talk] Solo V2 Announcement

[eileen scrivani]

This is one problem I have found with the Prodigy meter ... no matter how 
small a drop of blood there is it triggers the sequence for testing
* immediately * and there's like no time allotted to try and squeeze even a 
little more sample out onto the strip before the meters already chiming in 
with the result.  It's too fast for my taste and often I will do a second or 
third test and try to make sure I have enough blood.

A few months back when I was having issues with my then PV meter and was put 
in touch with one of the reps from the company I was told that keeping my 
finger bleeding for more than (I think) a minute would also produce faulty 
results.  So how many times to I have to jab my already toughened fingers 
before I get an accurate test result and an accurate amount for the sample. 
On those times when I have met with diabetic educators and asked about 
having to retest I was always told I could milk the same finger if I needed 
to retest.  So there is now a significant change in what the manufacturer's 
are doing with the meters/strips.

Eileen
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Veronica Elsea" <veronica at laurelcreekmusic.com>
To: "Diabetes Talk for the Blind" <diabetes-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Friday, March 26, 2010 1:09 PM
Subject: Re: [Diabetes-talk] Solo V2 Announcement


> Actually, the other thing that hasn't been mentioned is whether or not we 
> can add blood to the strip. So, let's say I insert the strip, lance my 
> finger, do what I do until I think there's a reason to introduce my finger 
> to the strip. As is often the case for me, okay, I futs around a bit and 
> can tell there's blood there, but obviously not enough to make the meter 
> beep. So I back away, fuss with my finger again and come back to the strip 
> and try again. I often get a successful reading this way. Granted, this 
> happens within a short time frame. If I had five minutes to play, I think 
> the blood would dry by then. But that's always the tricky bit. If the 
> meter says not enough, when does it do that? My Free Style meter just 
> doesn't accept anything but the required amount. No meter has any business 
> beeping at me if there isn't enough blood. Remember the old VoiceMate? It 
> also said not enough blood. And oh how many tests went through as accurate 
> that really also didn't have enough blood. I often fool the Prodigy meter 
> as well.
> I think that if we're trying to get blood on a strip, and we get some but 
> not enough, after the usual two minutes, we get an error beep and grab a 
> different strip. With today's meters, if something happens and we run out 
> of time, we can always just pull the strip out, insert it again and 
> restart the clock. Now, if I do this with the Free Style, and there is in 
> fact some blood on the strip, it will give me error beeps and I have to 
> get another strip. And no meter, no matter how cute will remove all of the 
> guess work we must do.
> So, I guess here's how I'd phrase my question about the Solo. Does it beep 
> when it first detects the presence of blood, as the LifeScan meters do, or 
> does it beep when it actually has enough for the test?
>
> Veronica
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