Anyone switching Bayer Contour Next?

Diabetes Technology Glucose Monitoring
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I actually love the larger container. I have large fingers and found getting strips out of a full one touch canister to be a pain

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Hi, and yes I recently switched to bayer strips/meters because of an insurance change (from One Touch strips/meters used since '91) and I am very concerned about the accuracy of the readings. I have experienced wildly fluctuating readings from tests within a few seconds of each other, mostly to confirm readings which do not reflect how I actually feel. For example:

HI (above 600), then 279 to confirm

LO (below 20), then 93, then 79

47, then 117, then 105

I never got HI or LO readings from my One Touch meters, so I test to confirm and the reading is wildly different!!! I asked this a few weeks ago to see if it was happening to other people...

https://forum.tudiabetes.org/topics/bg-results?xg_source=activity

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I've been having the same kinds of reliability problems with the One Touch, which is why I'm in the process of switching. WAS using a Dexcom CGM for several months. When you start a new sensor, your supposed to enter two BG test results. A few times I did that, with strips from the same container and USING THE SAME DROP OF BLOOD -- seriously -- and seeing as much as a fifty point difference. I say "in the process of switching", because it won't be until the 24th (or maybe it's the 27th) that I will have officially "run out" of the One Touch test strips, according to United Healthcare.

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I get my daughter's ContourNext strips through ExpressScripts...exact same cost as the OneTouchUltras were.

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Thanks Mega Minxx, Kates's MOM: I have the Bayer contour nesxt LINK meter, just not any additional strips. I do not know if the plan I have will cover it, we will just have to see. I did not realize that the Next strips work with the LINK meter as well, I thought they used diffrent strips. If it is authorized by Medical Mutual from the pre-auth, I can get them at the CVS or maybe through mail ordr. Good to know they are the same price as the One touch ultra. Now does ayone know if it is a policy for insurance companies to let you have two different scripts on file for two diffrent meters?. I want to keep my one touch ultra as a backup, but am not sure if I add the script for the bayer Link, that they will cover TWO? I seem to have rememebered getting an indication from my insurance company that they could only cover one brand of strips and would not be willing to switch between brands. That is what I would like to do at all possible, and I presume it just depends on the insurance and the plan they have for their enrollees.

God bless,
Brunetta

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i love it!!! i like that you can charge it of the USB on the computer. and that it send your numbers right to your pump. i like that is has a back light so checking at night is so easy and that it tells you if you need more blood if the strip is under full it also tells you if the strip is upside down which is awesome if you are testing in the dark, I just love so many things about it i also like that i use it to upload my meter to the software makes it so easy when things do more then one thing.

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i was on the accu-chek compact i switched to that when i got my accu-chek sprirt pump. but i just got a new pump from medtronic and this is the meter that it came with so i switched wince it communicates with my pump. the insurance companies have to pay for the strips if you need it for your pump. All you have to do is get a prier authorization form sent it to them from your doctor and then you are good. I know i have had to do this lots i just had to do it with my dexcom g4.