Oops. Sorry. Was meant to come back with a full review but haven’t really used it enough to justify that.
Firstly as mentioned previously the OneTouch Comfort pricker is by far the least painful pricker I’ve used although the needles aren’t as hardwearing as my previous Multiclix so maybe aren’t as suitable for those that replace less frequently.
Next the meter. Roughly twice the size of my favoured Nano with a test strip that needs blood applying from the side. It comes with average analysis scores over 7, 14, 30 and days. Results can be tagged as before-meal, after-meal, fasting or bedtime.
The highly promising trend analysis looks at your BG and will display a message depending on whether it spots a trend in your BG. The lower limit of the acceptable range is set at 3.8mmol/L but the upper pre-meal limit is entirely changeable depending on your own targets.
A low pattern message will appear when you get a ‘low’ (under 3.
BG on any 2 days within the same 3hr period over the last 5 consecutive days.
A high pattern message will appear when you get a ‘high’ BG on any 3 days with the test tagged as pre-meal within the same 3hr period over the last 5 consecutive days. This only works for pre-meal tagged tests.
That’s it. No more analysis, which is a great shame. There’s obviously potential here but the inability to add insulin or notes for exercise etc means that the 1,001 other ;