[Diabetes-talk] Solo meter??

Sun Sep 1 05:09:52 UTC 2013

Hi.  Bill Lewis here.  I found a system several years ago to better detect 
the blood sample on my finger.  Here's how:

Pick your finger to be tested--say, the middle finger.  Place your thumb 
from that hand on a selected spot on the pad of the finger.  Hold the thumb 
there.

Now take the thingamajig with the needle and jab the finger pad for a blood 
sample.  Make the spot you selected right next to your thumbnail.  Then set 
the needle thingamajig aside and pick up your meter with the test strip 
inserted and the meter saying to apply the blood to the test strip.

Now hold the meter in a position so you can touch the strip tip to the skin 
right next to the thumbnail.  Start very slowly sliding the strip away from 
the thumbnail and over the spot you felt the needle jab your finger pad.  By 
using the thumbnail as a reference point and guide, you will know the blood 
sample should be no more than an inch away from the thumbnail.  With a few 
tries, and if a blood drop shows up on the skin, the strip will find it.

My problem is that  the test sample often is very slow in showing up, and 
ikt takes a few finger squeezes, or even my wife having to come over and 
eyeball the finger to tell me where the sample drop is located.

If a blood drop is there, this technique works very easily.  As I said, my 
problem is remembering to exercvise my arm and hand in order to get the 
bloodcirculating.

Good luck and good hunting.

-----Original Message----- 
From: COLLEEN ROTH
Sent: Saturday, August 31, 2013 5:06 PM
To: diabetes-talk at nfbnet.org
Subject: Re: [Diabetes-talk] Solo meter??

Hi Cheryl,
I have even tried to do this with the meter. I must really not be getting 
much blood.
Of course it is hard for me to get blood for anything.
I think your description was very helpful.
Colleen Roth

----- Original Message -----
From: Mike Freeman <k7uij at panix.com>
To: "'Diabetes Talk for the Bl'" diabetes-talk at nfbnet.org
Date: Saturday, August 31, 2013 4:47 pm
Subject: Re: [Diabetes-talk] Solo meter??

>
>
> Cheryl:
>
> Thanks much for great advice. This is how I get blood with either the 
> Solo,
> Solus or Prodigy. The problem we blind people have to avoid is smearing of
> the blood. And you're technique is almost foolproof.
>
> Again, Thanks.
>
> Mike
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Diabetes-talk [mailto:diabetes-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of
> cheryl echevarria
> Sent: Saturday, August 31, 2013 10:23 AM
> To: Diabetes Talk for the Blind
> Subject: Re: [Diabetes-talk] Solo meter??
>
>  I use Solo Meter with no problem, Greg Santulli of ADS, we see each other 
> a
> few times a year. Showed me how to take better tests. He said that after
> lancing your finger, instead of trying to find the blood with the strip.
> First make sure the strip is in the meter, than lance you finger, while
> holding the meter in one hand hold the meter with the strip upside down
> meaning, hold the meter with the strip out the bottom facing down. Sorry I
> am bad at describing things.
> and then touch the strip to the blood this will take some practice, but 
> the
> strip will suck in the blood that way, instead of it side ways.
> Also a way of finding the blood again it will take practice, the blood 
> will
> be warm.
> Dah moments here. Again, trying to explain what I am doing.
> It has helped a lot getting more blood as well with smaller drops then
> trying to pinch my fingers harder.
> If you need more of an explanation, let me know.
> Since he showed me how to do it, it is much better.
> I like the solo meter much better than the prodigy, but some places it 
> isn't
> on there formulary to get the strips with Medicare.
>
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> > From: Blindhands at aol.com
> > Date: Sat, 31 Aug 2013 13:00:13 com0400
> > To: diabetes-talk at nfbnet.org
> > Subject: [Diabetes-talk] Solo meter??
> >
> > Are folks having troubles similar to the Prodigy meter  with the  Solo
> > meter??  I have had these problems and if I feel things are not where  I
> think
> > they should be I test over with blood from a different finger and/or
> hand.
> > I did not think of calling Prodigy.
> >
> > If you get the strips from where ever you get them, should you contact
> > Prodigy or the place you bought the strips from?
> >
> > Usually, I am not saying this has happen with Prodigy, but they send you
> > back to where you purchased it.  As in this letter, they replaced the
> meter,
> > but they did not replace the strips.  So they have you running back  and
> > forth and all you want is to know what your test results are  correctly.
> >
> > Joyce  Kane
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