[Diabetes-talk] accessible glucommiters

[Vincent Chaney]

Lauren,

An upgrade would likely help. If you require speech, the Prodigy Voice would 
be the unit from Prodigy and not the Autocode, though the Autocode has been 
updated since 2008. I believe there is a repeat in the Autocode today. With 
the Prodigy Voice and the BioSense Solo you are able to change all settings. 
This weekend, for example, those of us who need to alter to standard time 
will be changing our meters back one hour. The Prodigy Voice and the 
BioSense Solo both will give you test results in memory. The Prodigy Voice 
gives you 450 results with the date and time while the Solo is being updated 
from our feedback and a review I had submitted to the BioSense Company. 
Currently the Solo only gives 10 results with the date only. They have said 
this will be expanded in the quantity and will include the time of the test.
With regards to the speech and your limited hearing, I also have an issue 
with the teen numbers sounding like the ones like thirty, forty, fifty, 
sixty, etc. As all meters are not lab exact, the best thing would be to 
retest as you may get a reading close but not exactly the same. If, in your 
example of 150, you got 145 you would know that your first was likely the 
150 and not the 115 reading. The only problem would be if the first was 150 
and the second was 140, you may not be sure if you had heard 140 or 114(sad 
face). I have worked with both the Prodigy Voice and the BioSense Solo and 
have had this speech problem. In actuality, I have this issue with my 
talking watch as well and do not have any troubles with my hearing.
Wishing you the best...

Vinny
Vincent Chaney Jr
NFB Diabetes Action Network (DAN) Board of Directors
NFBNJ Diabetes Division President
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Mail: vgc732 at optonline.net

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lauren B. Hunter" <nightingale at pcdesk.net>
To: <diabetes-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 2010 4:35 PM
Subject: [Diabetes-talk] accessible glucommiters


   Thanks so far for the responses i've received.  i'm not sure which
prodigy it is, but from what i'm remembering, i've had mine since August
or September of 2008.  i have also found at times that i get inacuriate
readings, and for me it helps that i generally know where my levels
should be.  So if i end up getting something really low or really high,
i will end up testing again.  my current insurance is Mediacare, it
sounds like if i upgraded to something newer, that might solve some of
my problems?
Lauren
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