[Diabetes-Talk] blood sugar question

[maurice mines]

 It is interesting, but the subject comes up because I was just about ready to ask a question because I have a meter that has been misbehaving lately. So I switch to what I thought was a bit older meter and the accuracy seems to be getting better.

What caused me to question the accuracy one day I did a test and it came out at 345. I know I’m nowhere close to that normally. Which immediately told me something might be off. Change meters and the test went quicker and turned out to be nothing more than 118. So I definitely know what the last poster was talking about regarding how long it takes to do the test. If it happens right away, then I think it’s good if it takes too long I get very suspicious very fast.

Sincerely Maurice Mines.

> On Apr 30, 2020, at 12:39, Bridgit Kuenning-Pollpeter via Diabetes-Talk <diabetes-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
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> In my experience, if it takes more than a second for the strip to accept my blood, it's going to error. I take it out even before the meter reads it and start again.
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> Bridgit
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> From: Diabetes-Talk <diabetes-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org> On Behalf Of Lisa Belville via Diabetes-Talk
> Sent: Thursday, April 30, 2020 2:30 PM
> To: Louise Peyton via Diabetes-Talk <diabetes-talk at nfbnet.org>
> Cc: Lisa Belville <missktlab1217 at frontier.com>
> Subject: Re: [Diabetes-Talk] blood sugar question
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> This has happened to me once.  I think it was something funky with the meter.  It was early in the morning before I'd eaten and I could tell my sugar was     getting low.  The test said it was 155, so I purposely took it again from a different finger and the reading was 94, which is more consistent with my morning readings.  It didn't take long between testing of the first finger, hearing the reading, removing a new strip and doing another test, probably less than three minutes.
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> 
> If it kept happening I'd think there was something wrong with the meter or the strips since it can't test if there's not enough blood so that couldn't be what's causing the discrepancy.
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> Lisa Belville
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> On 4/30/2020 2:03 PM, Louise Peyton via Diabetes-Talk wrote:
>> Hello:
>> Does anyone know why you can have two different blood sugar readings from different fingers after a few seconds of finger pricks that are within a minute of each other?
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