Comments on: Review: Freestyle Lite blood glucose meter http://dandtheguy.com/2009/06/25/review-freestyle-lite-blood-glucose-meter/ Sat, 21 May 2011 17:29:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Donna Heathcote http://dandtheguy.com/2009/06/25/review-freestyle-lite-blood-glucose-meter/#comment-100 Fri, 26 Jun 2009 01:00:03 +0000 http://dandtheguy.com/?p=151#comment-100 I have had problems with the optium xceed not working in the morning.
I rang the suppliers and apparently it is too cold for the sensitive wee thing and I need to clamp it under my armpit for a while or take it to bed with me.
I am still in mourning for my old gluco card, which was smaller,sucked the blood quickly off my finger and needed less of it, and wasn’t so sensitive.
The government stopped subsidising the test strips in their infinate wisdom.
Would be interested in trying this new one.
How do I go about getting one?
Cheers Donna

]]> By: tmana http://dandtheguy.com/2009/06/25/review-freestyle-lite-blood-glucose-meter/#comment-98 Thu, 25 Jun 2009 23:47:13 +0000 http://dandtheguy.com/?p=151#comment-98 Display: the Flash/Mini/Papillon and the Lite have the same size display, but the results numbers on the Lite are larger. For a physically larger diplay one would need to go to the Freedom series, which do not have backlights or port lights (strip lights).

Freestyle meters have *the* smallest sample size on the market, 0.3 microliter. Most small-sample meters require 0.5 – 0.7 microliter. FWIW, I *have* had issues with insufficient blood for a reading on these, and accuracy issues if I don’t get enough uptake on the first try.

I found the Freestyle Lite to read about 17% higher than the Freestyle Flash and about 4.5-7% higher than the average of several meter models (Freestyle Lite and Flash; One Touch Ultra2, UltraSmart, and UltraMini; Accu-Chek Aviva; Wavesense Keynote and Presto; Advocate Duo).

I did a meter comparison last year (several posts on it over at TuDiabetes), and found that the Fla

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