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Anyone know of a cheap Homemade Blood Glucose Testing method - Even Cheap strips too Expensive !
Re: Anyone know of a cheap Homemade Blood Glucose Testing method - Even Cheap strips too Expensive ! -- Posted by Just another poster on 05-04-05 17:20
Just stop testing so much! Test 3 times a day and know your body and how it
reacts to what you eat.
If you are so anal as to test that much than maybe you deserve to pay that
kind of $$$$.
"Dave" wrote in message
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> The cheapest at Wal-Mart is $ 42.48 for 100. I test 12 times a day.
>
> Yeah, I'm really thrilled if your diabetes is so well controlled that you
> need to test only
> a couple of times a day.
>
> Please, lets not get into the typical sidetracking about
> "why do you need to test 12 times a day ?"
>
> Is there a cheap homemade way ?
> At 12 tests per day, that's 4380 tests per year which
> (at $42.48 per 100 strips) costs over $ 1860.00. In 10 years that's
> $18,600.00
> which is enough to buy a decent new car. (like say a Toyota Camry which
> will
> last 10 years - generally good for 200,000 miles).
> Does anone know of a cheap homemade blood glucose testing method ? Some
> briliant teckie out there must have devised something. I'm guessing that
> measuring the ohms resistance of blood might be a means of correllation
> with
> BG levels. The trick will probably be insuring the exact distance between
> contacts and the exact surface area of contact with the blood every time.
> Anybody crack this one ?
>
>
Re: Anyone know of a cheap Homemade Blood Glucose Testing method - Even Cheap strips too Expensive ! -- Posted by None Given on 05-05-05 07:08
"Just another poster" wrote in message
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> Just stop testing so much! Test 3 times a day and know your body and how
it
> reacts to what you eat.
> If you are so anal as to test that much than maybe you deserve to pay that
> kind of $$$$.
Insulin users and pumpers may need to test many more times than that.
Sometimes I need to test more than that, sometimes I only test once.
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