As I mentioned in my very first post, diabetic testing strips are outrageous!! So far, my favorite meter of the 4 I am trying is the Acensia Breeze 2 by Bayer. It is a super easy to use meter that is self contained. You put in a little packet of strips (they remind me of the old film discs if anyone remembers the Kodak disc cameras), and they spit out each time you need to test. So, you test 10 times before you have to load a strip. No coding (lots of meters require that you have a chip with a certain code for your strips. Lose that code chip and you have a bunch of useless strips. Try and use a strip with a different code and it errors out), very small sample size. The downside is, of course, it is expensive to get the strips. The cheapest I'd found them so far was $67 for 50 strips at Walgreens. On a whim, I thought... why not try eBay??
One of the better thoughts I've had lately, can I just say!!! I just bought a lot of 100 strips for $19.95 plus $5.48 s&h. Holy cow! I'm figuring this guy probably hijacked a truck of diabetic supplies for them to cost this little, but I am pretty sure I don't care. Sure, hijacking is wrong, but so is highway robbery! LOL!
So, to alla you folks who are stickin' yourselves for blood sugars, it may behoove you to check into eBay for some of your supplies! I'll update this when I actually get the strips and tell you how it goes!
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