[Diabetes-Talk] Are Blood Glucose Meters Accurate? New Data on 18 Meters | diaTribe

[Patricia Maddix]

Veronica,
You hit the nail on the head. Those are my exact thoughts. When I get various blood sugar values from meters saying anywhere from a blood sugar of 70- 120 it’s very frustrating to decide what to do.  I do cherish being able to at least know approximately where my blood sugar is but as far as letting a pump rely on this information to adjust insulin is a bit scary.  My last Dexcom sensor read 70 after the two hour warm-up and three fingersticks at the same time showed 126, 139, 140. I did calibrate at 140 and did several fingersticks for the next eight hours to make sure.
Patricia

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> On Feb 6, 2021, at 1:39 PM, Veronica Elsea via Diabetes-Talk <diabetes-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi everyone.
> What amazes me is that even in this study, they just had to be within 15 per
> cent, as opposed to 20 in the FDA approval game. I've always been sort of
> amused, sort of disgusted that we're so hung up on making things like
> insulin pumps that can deliver insulin in .005 increments, allow us to
> adjust basals to within the idea of a hair on our head, but all of our
> decisions are based on technology that could be off by 20 per cent or more
> in either direction. Sometimes it really does kind of feel like we're
> playing with technology just for technology's sake and pretending we're
> doing something. Obviously, there is no question that we've improved the
> quality of life for all of us living with diabetes over the years, thank
> goodness. But just once in awhile, I find myself thinking, huh? Certainly
> the CGM's aren't perfect either. But we do gain tremendously by having
> information more often so things don't get out of hand. Wonder what the
> future holds.
> Thanks for sharing, Patricia.
> Veronica
> 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Diabetes-Talk [mailto:diabetes-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of
> Dorothea Martin via Diabetes-Talk
> Sent: Saturday, February 06, 2021 12:56 AM
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> Cc: Dorothea Martin
> Subject: Re: [Diabetes-Talk] Are Blood Glucose Meters Accurate? New Data on
> 18 Meters | diaTribe
> 
> Hello, Everyone,
> First, we should be happy with this test. Whichever meter we use, the 
> Prodigy, the ReliOn or the Embrace, they all come in at about 90 
> percent. Really, that's not bad. I wish they had included the Accu-Chek 
> Guide in this list, but as the older Accu-Chek meters do reasonably 
> well, I would expect that the new one also would. Oh, my, I just 
> ordered 300 test strips for the Embrace meter, and I hate that thing, 
> it looks so square and ugly. The only nice thing about it is its music 
> when it actually gets enough blood to do the test.
> Dotty Martin
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