Anyone use this meter and know where I can get test strips in Canada? I'm going to head to London Drugs shortly as their website says they have the meter, but I'm not sure if they have the strips (though I'll ask). I already checked at Shoppers (where I saw the meter at another location) and the pharmacist didn't know what brand I was talking about.
I saw the strips on Amazon.com for $16 for 100!! But they won't ship to Canada. :( The same strips on Amazon.ca cost $50!
I want to use this meter for exercise so probably will pay for the strips myself. I've been using the Accu-Chek Mobile but it's really bulky (although I don't need to touch the strips which is nice for swimming) and I am not impressed at how the cartridge expired with 19 tests left on it!!! So won't be using Accu-Chek brands again for my exercise meter.
Sam
I use this meter as my primary and also have used its big brother the trueresult. They are essentially the same except the true result adds a time date stamp ad 7/14/30 day averages. I absolutely love the true2go. It fits onto the top of the vial of strips and I throw I and the tiny lancer that comes with it right into my pocket-- not carrying around so much D-junk really makes me feel better about the whole situation. Consumer reports rated the trueresult meter (which is for all practical purposes exactly the same as the true2go) among the best, second only to freestyle if I recall. I actually like it so much that I end up paying more to use it than I would to use one-touch due to insurance coverage issues. I highly recommend. No bells and whistles just simple, non burdensome, and effecive
I read that you can't upload information from the true2go meter, which makes me not want to use it as a primary meter since I upload my pump and meter data to Diasend. But I I'd just plan on using this one to test during and after exercise to check for lows.
The cheapest I can find the meter and 50 strips for here in Canada is $40. In the U.S. apparently it's sold for something like $10 for the meter and $10 for strips! I'm half tempted to wait until I'm in the U.S. this summer and buy one, if you don't need a prescription to do so. Only drawback is it would be in mg/dl format, but I'm not sure that would mater since I know the system well enough to know when numbers are low, anyway.
$10 for a hundred seems like a better deal than I’ve found. I’ve purchased them on eBay for closer to 20/ 100… But I’m in Alaska so I’m used to paying twice as much for everything. You’re right though downloading numbers etc probably aren’t options with this its just ultra basic— but that’s why I like it too
Oh, the price I saw was $10 for 50 strips, not 100. On Amazon I can get 100 strips for $50, which is cheaper than most other strips, but that's still about 5x what I could apparently get them for across the border. I thought stuff was usually cheaper here than the U.S., but I guess not this time.
I buy mine from Amazon.com, can't remember the exact price, but I think it was less than $50. I use it for a back-up, and it is amazingly close to my freestyle meter.
Jen, I love True2go also. Like Sam and Dave, I use it as my primary and I have one in my purse and one at home. Just so easy to carry around and I don't have to worry about calibrations or batteries or anything. So simple.
I buy my strips at CVS for like $69 - $79 for 100 strips. The meter's cheap but the strips are expensive (as always with d-supplies). :-P
Thanks for all the feedback. I found the true2go plus 50 strips for $36, $30 of which was covered by my provincial healthcare, so I only paid $6! I do find the screen difficult to read as it's low-contrast, shadowy and glarey, but for a meter to use only during exercise it should work fine.
I'm not so sure about the meter results. I tested it against my OneTouch meter twice, about half an hour apart, from the same drop of blood and got:
true2go - 11.5 (207) Ping meter - 10.0 (180)
true2go - 11.7 (211) Ping meter - 10.3 (185)
So they seem to be consistent, but the true2go is reading 1.5 mmol/L higher than the Ping. These results are still within 20% of one another, though, so hopefully at lower blood sugar levels the results would be closer together.
