[Diabetes-talk] callibrating the Prodigy Voice?

[Vincent Chaney]

Lauren,

As Veronica mentions here, the solution really tests the strips. I like 
Veronica and Mike, from within his message, rarely test my strips. I have 
worked this way through my 25 years of testing. The pharmacist from whom I 
bought my very first AccuChek Freedom in 1984 or 1985, told me as long as I 
tested the first strip from the group I was buying for 3 months, that was 
more than enough. He told me I really did not have to worry about the strips 
but if I was not comfortable in not testing that once from the first bottle 
per the group of strips I was buying each time was really enough.
If you are not believing the results you are getting, whether using the 
Prodigy Voice or the Solo V2, using the testing solution might give you an 
answer. The answer may not be the right one if you have not put enough blood 
onto the strip.
The periodic test of the strips is probably one of those legal disclaimers 
by the strip manufacturers.

Vinny
Vincent Chaney Jr
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Veronica Elsea" <veronica at laurelcreekmusic.com>
To: "Diabetes Talk for the Blind" <diabetes-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Friday, February 18, 2011 5:57 PM
Subject: Re: [Diabetes-talk] callibrating the Prodigy Voice?


Lauren, I've actually never heard anything like this. By calibrating
I'm assuming you mean using the control solution. That does more to
check your test strips and have heard somewhere something about doing
this when you open a new vial of strips. Me, ahem, I have to confess
I don't do this much at all. Somehow in my early days of testing I
just had so much trouble with getting enough solution in the right
place, then not trusting the number and not ever finding that it
changed anything anyway. So I don't worry about it much.
Not the standard line I know, but just a reality for me. <grin.>

Veronica
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