2/2 Willie PMPS 103/107, +5~45

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Christie & Willie (GA)

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Yesterday's Condo

Another furry purry morning here! Willie was standing at attention, waiting patiently at 4am. :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: I think he sent Herbie in to do his dirty work, because about that time, I started getting face licks and feverish attempts to dig me out of bed. Put her under the covers and she curled up next to me with purrs... only to claw and nip at me! It's 5:45 and first breffis has now been consumed. Willie tried to come btb, but Herbie clearly thought it was playtime, so he instigated Wrestlemania 305... ON TOP OF ME. His plan worked at first... Herbie ran into the other room.... but then came back, three times, with even more energy. He went off in a huff, and of course she followed. He stayed out long enough for her to find something to amuse herself, and is now back in bed, all curled up next to me. Way to lose the battle but win the war, kid!! :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

Busy day for the bean ( :lol: :lol: :lol: just typed that as "busty," which now has me giggling and contemplating what to wear to work). I've got depositions today that I'll be doing over the phone, so it's a lot of sitting around but having to be engaged. Should be interesting... I ran 3 miles last night outdoors and then immediately went to a power yoga class that I'd never done before. I am SORE!

Wishing good health for all of Lantus Land, with special prayers, vines and snowflakes to our kitties and beans in need of them.

Oh! Almost forgot! Arkray strips. I just got my latest order this past weekend, and the packaging is new. I had opened one of them last night after I brought Willie's testing stuff downstairs and couldn't find the open (Relion) strips. He had been 87 at +11 and was suddenly 160 on the new strips, which is quite a jump for him. I ran both this morning and got a 20 point difference. I plan to do a few more comparisons to see if it's just coincidence or if there is a pattern of the new packaging running higher in my relion meter. Just something we may need to be aware of!
 
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Yikes!!! I noticed th packaging was different, too...I didn't think the strips would be different as well. I'm going to do a side-by-side comparison for Trix's +2...I'm almost out of the "old" strips. Thanks for the heads up!!

Have a great day!!!
 
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I just did a side-by-side test with the same drop of blood. The new strip gave me a 68; the old strip gave me a 69. I wonder what's up with the discrepencies you came across...I'm still going to keep my eyes peeled!
 
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I love Willie’s strategic “loss”!

I hope that strange reading was a one time thing. We sure don’t need any more meter issues in LL!
 
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Hey Christie, between the pummeling you get from Herbie and Willie, and the power yoga and running, you are sure getting enough of a workout! So nice to read about how well the kits are getting along and having so much fun. Willie looks great.

Interesting about the Arkray strips. I just started using them and also just started using my Relion Micro again (have shelved the FreeStyleLite and its strips!). I didn't notice any appreciable difference in readings between the Relion strips and the Arkray strips. I didn't know that the Arkray strips were in a new packaging. Is the box white with a light-blue stripe at the bottom? I did notice that the Arkray strips have a bluish tinge, whereas the Relion strips were white. (But my Relion strips were from an older lot.) In any event, when I ordered the Arkray strips I also ordered an Arkray Glucocard Mini meter. I tested myself (same drop of blood) on the Relion Micro (Arkray strip), the Relion Confirm (Arkray strip), and the Arkray (Arkray strip) and the difference was only 4 points: the Arkray Glucocard Mini and the Relion Confirm had the same reading, the Relion Micro was 4 points higher.
Later today I'll test Rusty with both the Relion Micro and the Arkray Glucocard Mini and will be back here later with the results.

Take care of those aches and pains!

Ella & Rusty
 
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Nice morning for Willie! Sounds like your kitties are both morning kitties. Everybody walks around like zombies at my house in the morning, including all the furbabies.

Wow on the run and then power yoga. I have done both separately but don't think I could do them back to back. Kudos to you. At least the sore is a good kind of sore.

Have a wonderful day!
 
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yes the pkging has been new for my last 2 orders but I have not noticed any change in Do Lous numbers with the new pkg.
 
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Hi again,
I opened a new box of Arkray strips and tested Rusty's +6 on the Relion Micro and the Arkray Glucocard Mini--same drop of blood.

Results: Relion Micro: bg = 92; Arkray Glucocard Mini: bg = 96

So, Christie, I think that either you got one bad strip, or--in FDMB parlance--"it's the cat"!! (only Willie knows for sure)!

Carry on,

Ella & Rusty
 
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now i'm wondering what you wore to work. :lol: the power of suggestion . . . that, and in my mental image of you, you just increased by about 10 cup sizes. ;-) :lol:

i'm voting for the one bad strip to be the problem. not that my vote matters, but i just switched from the Freestyle Lite to the Relion because of the strip problems and bought 400 strips - so i definitely don't want the Arkray strips to be faulty!!!!
 
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I haven't had any of the issues with wonky numbers on my comparison tests for Freestyle Lite & Relion that some of you have. BUT enough of you have raised issues with them that I am swapping meters to be safe and sticking with the Relion Confirm *I think*. What are the Arkray strips? Is there an Arkray meter or are they made to work with Relion? I vaguely remember a discussion on how cheap they were but didn't pay much attention at the time! ohmygod_smile

& side note... Christie you're a nut! 3 miles AND yoga? I would be a puddle on the floor.
 
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arkray are the generic strips that work in the relion confirm meters. i'm not sure how you match which strips to which meters, but someone sent me a link to the ones that work with the new relion confirm that i'd gotten. if that helps, let me know and i'll find which one it is for that particular relion meter.

punkin's had to go up in dose 2+units when we switched to the relion to be seeing similar numbers. the night i got the new meter his pmps was 258 on the freestyle lite and 400 on the relion confirm. ohmygod_smile it's taken us 2 weeks to work his dose up to push the numbers back down into decent range.
 
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:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

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Thanks to you, we switched to the Arkray strips for the relion meter too and are so glad, wish we had switched from the alpha trak sooner - easier and oh, so much cheaper! We've been using the Arkray glucometer too, since one came free with several boxes of strips. Just got new strips and haven't noticed anything wonky with the numbers, other than Zener being the wonky fellow he is!
 
Thanks for the input everyone! Subsequent tests have been far more consistent, so it was likely just a wonky test. Whew!

Though, in looking at strips, I was surprised.... I've been using the Arkray Glucocard 01 Sensor Strips in my Relion meter. Arkray also makes the X-Meter, whose strips actually look more like the Relion Confirm's:

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Arkray X-Sensor Strip


Relion Confirm Strip


Arkray Glucocard 01 Sensor Strip

The specs on the Relion Confirm definitely match the specs on the Glucocard 01 rather than the x-meter (mainly in the time it takes to get a number), but it does make me curious! I think with my next order, I may just get a set with a meter.


Willie's pleased to get of MC tonight... Bean was late testing him. A neighbor came by with a petition about an issue affecting our neighborhood, and we hit it off... and basically have the same first/last name with just different spelling! Both single, just a few years apart in age... too crazy!
 
Willie read the condo today about how pooped you were from running three miles and power yoga!! Either that or he wants to give you more chances to check out the strips.

Like Julie, I'm also wondering what the outfit du jour was :lol: :lol: :lol:
 
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