[Diabetes-talk] Solo V2 Announcement

[Mike Freeman]

Veronica:

I like your ideal meter idea although I'd be happy if the thing didn't beep 
at all until it got enough blood. In other words, why even futz around with 
trying to add blood; I'd just as soon the thing either worked or didn't. But 
either way would be OK.

I've also read posts on other forums from people who contended that 
vast-result meters were inherently inaccurate as the meters have to do an 
integral calculus calculation to come up with the bg reading and that only 
the slower meters did the integral right. I don't know whether this is 
really true or not and would be interested in a definitive answer from an 
expert. HMMM ... hafta do some checking.

Mike

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Veronica Elsea" <veronica at laurelcreekmusic.com>
To: "Diabetes Talk for the Blind" <diabetes-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2010 9:45 AM
Subject: Re: [Diabetes-talk] Solo V2 Announcement


> 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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