Testing Test Strips

1

Do you test the strips every time you open a new bottle? A new box? Never? Seems wasteful, although we did have a bad batch once; just one bad bottle, not even the whole box.

2

I never test the strips with control solution. Growing up I didn’t have insurance so every strip was money out of my pocket. Nowadays insurance covers a significant portion of the cost, but I don’t even know if I own any control solution :slight_smile: I am sure the “smart” thing to do includes testing the first one out of each bottle to ensure accuracy, etc. but not testing them is a hard habit for me to break lol.

Do you ever test the strips?

3

I test one strip with control solution out of every box I open.

4

Thanks for reminding me! I hardly ever do as I forget to.

I do tests though back to back with the meter to see how close multiple tests are to one another.

5

We test one out of every bottle. The range is wide, but multiple tests of the same bottle will yield similar results.

6

Never. I thinks it’s a way to get us to use even more strips & buy solution that quickly expires.