FreeStyle Lite, Blood Glucose Monitoring System - 1 ea

Needed a new one!!! They last for a few years! Great product for checking your glucose

I gave it a 4 because the size is soooo tiny. I know the advertisment mentioned "mini". I like the light button, which is great. I won't know the accuracy until I get my A1c test. The size is great for traveling, which I don't do anymore. The price is fair. Overall a 4 .

I find it impossible to find this meter in any of the pharmacies. Exactly what I expected came in a sealed box and works perfectly.

It was shoved in the mailbox and the box was smashed. Other than that, it’s a great product

Love the convenience

I do blood glucose testing 2 to 3 times daily and use the back of my forearm as the testing site. Possibly due in part to a blood thinner I am taking, a Freestyle needle prick leaves a large black and blue mark. Each black and blue mark takes two months to disappear so my arm always looks like it was on the losing side of a major war.I discovered CareTouch, a competitor to Freestyle, on Amazon's web site. I gave their lancets and lancing device a try. Like magic I didn't feel the needle prick, the blood drop was 75% smaller and the black and blue mark was 75% smaller. Although Freestyle claims the smallest blood sample in the world, I think they are referring to what their glucose meter needsis as opposed to the amount of blood produced by one of their pricks. If so that is a somewhat misleading statement.At any rate, I enthusiastically ordered the whole CareTouch test kit. The bad news was that the CareTouch glucose meter was not accurate. Readings were consistently 100 units high. The error was confirmed with blood drawn at the same time was tested with a CareTouch unit, a Freestyle unit and a medical lab.What's most important is that I ended up with a great solution. I use the CareTouch lancets and lancing device together with the Freestyle test strips and glucose meter. Perfection.

Seems to be a good meter, easy to set up and simple ti use. It seems very accurate after two weeks of use. The kit did not contain any test solution but you can also buy that online almost anywhere. You can also get test solution at any pharmacy. My only complaint with this particular kit was the lancing device. I'm not using the one that came with the kit. Far too complicated and frankly hard to use. So I'm using one that I got with another kit. No great problem. I don't know wheat Abbott was trying to do with this new lancing device but it's horrible.

This seemingly worked with an acceptable margin of error (5 points or so) for about 2 weeks, but then the readings became increasingly inconsistent - I was doubling-up to get a good average, doing 2 tests, one after the other on different fingers, and yet sometimes there'd be a 20 point difference between the 2 readings taken no more than a few minutes apart, so I'd continue and sometimes take up to half-a-dozen readings and never get the same number twice. I even got a 'LO' warning once.Just to be sure, I got 2 different batches of test strips, but the readings never settled down to any level where I felt could trust them, and without that confidence the thing is worse than not testing at all. An example of the range of readings in the order they appeared;, 84, 91, 75, 70, 95 - all encouraging if my level is actually towards the lower end, but the extreme high-low difference means that they're effectively worthless.. And every now and then there'd be a triple digit in the bunch that would really be a cause for concern - supposing that was actually the only number that was right, and the others were wrong? I phoned the company to get the test solution, and that was not a quick process - it took 30 minutes and then it never arrived, and by that point I was discouraged to the extent that I gave up and went back to the fingers-crossed and hope-for-the-best lifestyle method between annual physicals.It may be that the process is easily corrupted - there is a list of do's and don'ts that I followed, but perhaps not as precisely as required - eg you have to 'hold' the test strip against the drop of blood, but not 'press' it. What degree of force turns a 'hold' into a 'press' - just touching the skin?I accept that others may have got satisfactory results and the system on the surface is a good one, the lancet device is easy to use (and virtually painless), the needles and test strips are reasonably priced and using the meter is very straightforward, with clear instructions in the manual and helpful videos on the web-site - and the whole kit fits into a neat little pack, but if at the end you can't trust the numbers on the screen it's all a waste of time.