I didn’t realize it must be coded whenever starting a new vial. So that’s a major pain.
Next, it took 8 strips and punctures before I got the meter to draw in enough blood to test with. It needs an absurdly large amount of blood!
The result was 197 mg/dl. I’ve never seen numbers that high except for in hospital right after dx. So I retested with my FreeStyle Lite and it told me 148; I’ve been running high all week and so I’ve been tweaking my basal and tinkering with my I:C. Anyway, that’s a huge difference! And so now I have no idea which is the right number. And I can’t even test the OneTouch because I didn’t realize they don’t include control solution. That’s a separate purchase! Now I need to visit the endo and see if my FreeStyle Lite is as accurate as I thought it was.
So um, that was a nice waste of a hundred bucks or so. And a confidence destroyer too because I trusted my FreeStyle Lite was giving me accurate numbers. It might be, but the point is I’m no longer certain.
Can I use my FreeStyle Lite control solution in other meters like the OneTouch, or is it proprietary?