| Wearable Blood Sugar and/or Uric Acid monitor 07:48 - Apr 23 with 295 views | Keno |
question for the TWTD hive mind - do any of you lot use a Wearable Blood Sugar and or Uric Acid monitor?
If so which one and is it any good
thank you in advance |  |
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| Wearable Blood Sugar and/or Uric Acid monitor on 08:14 - Apr 23 with 225 views | Guthrum |
I had one of the Libre blood glucose monitors for a while last year (supplied by the NHS). Found it very useful and monitoring the changes quite obsessively fascinating. Circular white disk about the size of a 50 pence piece with a pin which sticks into the skin.
Positives: Relatively unobtrusive, glue sticks very well, applicator is well designed, the phone app works, all the data can be downloaded, it continues to record for several hours between readings so the graph is pretty much continuous, enables you to see the effects of food on blood sugar in almost real time, a lot less messy and more reliable than the fingerprick testers.
Negatives: The arm units only last two weeks and stop working after that, they are expensive (not that I was paying), you have to be comfortable using the applicator to stab it into your own arm. |  |
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| Wearable Blood Sugar and/or Uric Acid monitor on 08:25 - Apr 23 with 191 views | Keno |
| Wearable Blood Sugar and/or Uric Acid monitor on 08:14 - Apr 23 by Guthrum |
I had one of the Libre blood glucose monitors for a while last year (supplied by the NHS). Found it very useful and monitoring the changes quite obsessively fascinating. Circular white disk about the size of a 50 pence piece with a pin which sticks into the skin.
Positives: Relatively unobtrusive, glue sticks very well, applicator is well designed, the phone app works, all the data can be downloaded, it continues to record for several hours between readings so the graph is pretty much continuous, enables you to see the effects of food on blood sugar in almost real time, a lot less messy and more reliable than the fingerprick testers.
Negatives: The arm units only last two weeks and stop working after that, they are expensive (not that I was paying), you have to be comfortable using the applicator to stab it into your own arm. |
Ive been using a Sinocare monitor which involved sticking a pin in my finger twice, and thought there must be an easier way!!
After a bad, and I mean bad, gout flare up my GP wants to run blood tests in a few weeks for, and I quote 'various potential issues'. I just thought it might be good to get ahead of that | |
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