Meters Meters Meters

Well the weathers beautiful here in England and of course that's messed with the diabetes. I went through a stage where I was low all the time, whatever I did I was low. If I sat around all day and didn't bolus for anything I ate I was low. My basals went down and down and down, but now we have that all sorted yay!

Anyway when I was diagnosed 10 years ago I got a meter, I don't remember which one but the pricker looked a little something like the white one in the bottom right.

Then I also got a spare meter in case the first one broke or I ran out of strips. Every year our local hospital hold a technology night and I left every year with a new meter including this lot:










The last two meters the Optimum Xceed and the Accu Chek Combo  are the only two I'm left with. Now the Optimum is quite old but it is still the only meter that will test for ketones and if you aren't doing it on a meter you have to pee on a stick. Let's be honest nobody really wants to do that if they can help it, also the sticks are often a few hours late with the results so are not very accurate.

I have had all the meters shown here at one point but my mum made me get rid of them which sucks.Also I don't think you can ever have enough meters.

Rhona x