[Diabetes-talk] Solo V2 Announcement
Veronica Elsea
veronica at laurelcreekmusic.com
Tue Mar 30 16:45:17 UTC 2010
Jus thought I'd chime in again here. I too am a skimpy bleeder. Hmmm.
Wonder what it is with those arthritis meds. <grin.> My fingers are
also quite beat up from all of the testing trials over the years.
Right now, what I do with my Free Style is if a fair bit of time goes
by without getting blood, I just pull the strip out and insert it
again. That restarts the count-down. The meter will beep at me if it
turns out that there is some blood on the strip. My hubby and I
always take new strips apart to see where the blood travels once it's
shlurped up into the strip. Obviously I know nothing about the Solo
strips yet, so this is just general. But many strips do have corners
and channels where the blood can either miss going, or not reach the
leads that must trigger. That's why I really like the design that
does not allow the test to even start unless there's truly enough
blood there. The thing is, if there isn't enough blood, and the test
is triggered, the amount of time to add enough is really really
short. That's where I'd get caught on some meters. Once that beep
happens, there's no way for us to know we're still adding blood. So
here's what my ideal would be for any meter. We insert the strip.
Prick finger. Do the usual futs around to connect hopeful blood
sample to the right place on the strip. When we hit the right spot,
the meter would say something like blood detected. Then when there's
actually enough, we'd here a beep and the test would start. But in
between the blood being detected and the time a good test could
start, that would be the critical timing bit. If we were going long
enough that the blood sample would no longer be good, then we'd get
an error message.
One of the things that drove me crazy with the VoiceMate was hearing
that beep, waiting the stupid 45 seconds, thinking I was about to get
a result and then getting the error message. At least today's meters
are faster. Yet in a way, it cracks me up. All of these TV ads
touting this and that meter with results in five seconds. I don't
know about the rest of you, but for me, I can barely get my finger to
stop bleeding in that amount of time, so the gain of five seconds
over, say, seven? Uh, big deal! <grin.>
Of course, most of my friends around here have the meter built right
into the insulin pump remote so they only have one thing to carry
around. A talking pump with built-in meter and food data base, now
we'd be talking!
Veronica
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