So, to preface this a bit - In the past I have used a Bayer Contour, Accu-chek Compact Plus, and most recently, the Walmart meter, a ReliOn Premier Compact.
My niece's fiance works for Abbott, and got me on a program that employees can use where they get a free supply of glucose monitoring supplies since they make such things. She got me a FreeStyle Precision Neo and some boxes of strips and I just need to let her know about a week before I need more strips and more will show up at my door. I feel very honored that her and her fiance would let me participate in such a thing.
Any way, I've had the meter and strips for about a week now but hadn't used them. I was waiting until I ran out of my ReliOn strips. I had used the Neo once when it first arrived just to do a comparison, and it was pretty close to what the ReliOn was giving me.
So last night, I ran out of ReliOn strips. My first "official" Neo test was this morning when I woke up. I was 157. It seemed appropriate for what I'm usually at when I wake up.
However, just now, I was testing before dinner. Usually, I start feeling the hypo signs at around 60. Sweating, nonsensical statements to my wife, shaking in my hands. I tested at 43. I felt perfectly normal. No hypo signs at all. I said...well...that's weird. I tested again, it was 35. Tested again, it was 31. All within five minutes. Still felt perfectly fine. 35 and 31 would be the lowest tests I've ever had in my 15 years of being a diabetic, and they happen to come in the 3rd and 4th tests I've ever done with this Neo. The only thing I did between testing this morning and testing before dinner is change some settings on the meter, the time was off, and I changed the HI and LO thresholds. I have checked to make sure I didn't change the unit of measure, that isn't the culprit.
I'm just trying to find out if there's been any kind of issues with this particular meter for people. I wish I had saved a strip or two for one of my previous meters to compare, or gotten a control solution, but I don't have any of those options. I've always had extremely tight control of my readings, so I haven't used a control solution in 14 years, and I've just been using my strips until they're all gone when moving to a new meter. I did some googling and all I found was that, if anything, this meter would say my reading was about 10 points higher than it actually is. I was worried my reading would be up near 200 after my lunch (which was all perfectly calculated, no guessing involved) and it says I'm in the 30's, without any warning signs from my body whatsoever.
Anyway...I guess...anyone ever have issues with the Precision Neo? Haha
Sorry for the long post. Figured more detail was better than not enough.
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