{"id":86961,"date":"2009-12-17T13:20:48","date_gmt":"2009-12-17T18:20:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.diabetesforums.com\/forum\/monitoring\/46755-3-microns-blood-frustrating.html"},"modified":"2009-12-17T13:20:48","modified_gmt":"2009-12-17T18:20:48","slug":"3%c2%b5-microns-of-blood-is-frustrating-breeze2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/86961","title":{"rendered":"3\u00b5 (microns) of blood is — frustrating (Breeze2)"},"content":{"rendered":"
Though I have SO LOVED the convenience of the test strip DISCS in the Bayer BREEZE2 monitors — I’m finding that the 3\u00b5 (microns) of blood needed to get a reading without that horrible E8 error that means not enough blood (and wastes a strip) is just a HASSLE.. I’m at that point where I have callouses forming on my fingers from all the testing.. and I have to prick deeper and deeper to get enough blood to FILL this dang thing..<\/p>\n

Have any of you STOPPED using the Breeze2 because of that? I have a ReliOn Micro as my backup meter and the one I use when my strips paid for by my insurance run out mid month — and it only requires 1\u00b5 of blood — the tiniest little drop that I can barely see is enough for the ReliOn and gets sucked into the strip perfectly every time — a perfect reading.. I’m so tempted to go back to that meter – No insurance pays for the ReliOn since it’s cheap to begin with — but still the strips are $42 for 100 and I get 100 for $35 from my scrip for any meter my Insurance is covering on their formulary at a given time. And I still need about 200 strips a month for my testing preferences (6 months into DX).. So doing ‘all’ ReliOn Micro strips would cost more.. <\/p>\n

So have any of you stopped the Breeze2 because of this ‘conundrum’? The strips are so TINY compared to others — and yet need a BOATLOAD of blood.. Are there any other DISC manufacturers for the Breeze2 that have strips that would need less blood? I thought I saw that the Breeze2 accepted ‘some other company’s’ discs.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Though I have SO LOVED the convenience of the test strip DISCS in the Bayer BREEZE2 monitors — I’m finding that the 3\u00b5 (microns) of blood needed to get a reading without that horrible E8 error that means not enough blood (and wastes a strip) is just a HASSLE.. I’m at that point where I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86961\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}