I have been very excited about the strips they sell at Walmart becuase they are siginificantly less expensive, over the counter, than anything I have ever purchased with insurance backing. However, I think I got a strip failure. I just got a new Dexcom sensor this week and was noticing large descrepencies between the sensor and machine. I blamed the sensor, but this morning I repeadedly tested on my machine and within a 3 min period, got BS = 116, BS = 86, BS = 226, which is a lot of variance. Anyone else use these? I haven't had strips fail in 15 years.
I used to love my Relion Confirm, it used to match the one touch meters that I owned so I trusted it as I'd say those are pretty accurate for me, but the last few batch of strips have been way off , like one touch says 120something relion says 180 ??? Wtf? or if I'm in the 90's it'll say 130? The Bayer meter I have does the same thing too so I don't trust those either because I never feel high when they say 180 or higher and my one touch meters always say around 90-120 when they say 180 or above .
Also I would never give an insulin dose based on the one touch or bayer only the one touches because they read lower, if they're wrong, I rather give myself too little insulin than too much.
i have been using relion meters for the past couple of years to supplement the paltry number of strips spanish socialised medicine gives me. i havent had them fail me yet. those are some big discrepancies. can you call relion to complain/get your money back?
It could be the age of the meter too. Freestyle has just announced that older meters are/can give false readings with today's strips even though they are for that type meter. Never thought about this type of problem until this announcement. For me that's no problem because I have to use the meter my insurance will provide strips for. Seems like they change every so many years, when they make a new deal with another manufacturer.
I think I may have left the strips and machine in my car during freezing conditions and that may have made them go bad. Relion is sending some calibration fluid that will verify they are ineffective (But, I already know that). I think that the One Touch has a standard 20% variance in measured VS. actual blood sugar. Relion might be 25% variance. So, if your BS reads at 100, it is actually somewhere in the range of 80 - 120, by One Touch. Perhaps between 75 and 125 for Relion. I'm sure Relion would reimburse me for faulty strip, but I guess it was likely my fault. I hadn't heard that about old machines. Good to know. Mine is fairly new. I bought it over the counter because Relion supplies were cheaper over the counter than OneTouch, through insurance. Strange new development.
I use those and noticed that I got totally different readings also. So I am not sure what's what.
Really? I'll look into it further, then.
I bought a Relion Confirm due to the cheaper strips and I was getting higher readings on the Relion confirm than my old freestyle. When I contacted the companies to get control solutions I was told about the freestyle reading low with the current strips. I got a newer Freestyle meter and now it agrees pretty closely with my Relion. It was quite a bummer, actually.