[Diabetes-Talk] Prodigy Voice and Blood Test Strips Question please

[Jeanette Kutash]

I bought my own. Insurance companies do not understand this is why we hate
testing with strips. I have done the trick of putting an elastic tightly
around the finger and that helps puff out the place where I will prick, but
there is no good way to guarantee that we get enough blood on the strip.

Jeanette

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Subject: [Diabetes-Talk] Prodigy Voice and Blood Test Strips Question please

Hello everyone,

Trust all is well with you and those around you.

Lately, I am facing some issues when testing my blood sugar using blood test
strips and Prodigy Voice. I may need more than one blood test strip due to
the quantity of blood sample needed to do the reading of my sugar. I do get
the following message from my machine: "Blood Sample not enough" or
something on those lines. When that happened, I need to use a new blood test
strip and sometimes painfully prick myself again.

Additionally, I do wash my hands with warm water, squeeze my hand and
fingers before pricking myself. Also, I do squeeze my finger after pricking
it and use the test strip at an angle to collect the blood sample.

Having said that and facing the problem again and again, I will run out of
my test strips earlier than expected and the only way to get more of blood
test strips is to buy them from my own pocket, I believe. So far, I did not
go that extreme.

Please let me know if you or you know someone who is facing the same problem
with Prodigy Voice and Blood Test Strips and how you are handling it.

Thank you so very much.

Have a nice day.

AB

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