Blood glucose monitors

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 Petrafied 13 Apr 2024

You wait ages for blood related threads, then two come around at once!

I'm sure there's lots of people here that need to use blood glucose monitors.  I only need to do this every now and again (I'm not diabetic, so don't need constant monitoring).  I'm a total klutz using the one I have  - OneCell II.  Just had typically frustrating experience using it - 4 holes in finger, 3 strips to eventually get reading out of it (40 mg/dl).  Only really use it when my sugar is obviously low, so having the shakes doesn't exactly make it easy. 

Has anyone tried these non-invasive wrist monitors.  Any comments on them?  Don't sound lime they're likely to be accurate, but perhaps I'm wrong.

Cheers.

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 SouthernSteve 13 Apr 2024
In reply to Petrafied:

I include the link below for background, but there has been a trend in a number of news reports suggesting commercialisation before proven scientific benefit for such monitoring. If your [blood glucose] is properly low I would recommend seeing a doctor. 

https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/is-blood-sugar-monitoring-without-diabe...

We have patients presented constantly with this or that result that has been purchased on the internet, causing considerable worry, demanding ridiculous food changes and costing a lot of money -  and I am a vet!  


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