Amazon deal on FreeStyle lite test strips, too good to be true?

[Jacques and Pumpkin]

I started using a FreeStyle Lite after I had problems with my True Metrix meter needing more blood than I could consistently get. The True Metrix also errors if you don't deliver all the required blood in the very first try. Pumpkin doesn't give me the luxury of trying again if get my first attempt wrong, so the FreeStyle Lite was a breath of fresh air.

It's all great except the price, which is around $1.80-$2.00 a test strip in pharmacies. (For what it's worth, I think the AlphaTrak is just a rebranded FreeStyle Lite. The test strips have the same butterfly logo and black tabs to wick up the blood.)

ADW Diabetes sells the strips for $1.20 each. Diabetic Warehouse sells them for $0.80 each. And Amazon has them for the low low price of $0.35 each. The reviews are a little questionable though? Like the reviewer who found that the Amazon ones gave a lower reading than the FreeStyle Lite strips he got at the pharmacy, and reviewed them positively as a result???

Does anyone have experience ordering the FreeStyle Lite strips off of Amazon, or any of the other online sellers with low prices?

 

[Ti-Mousse (GA) Pepe (GA)]

I had the same problem with my Ti-Mousse who was not bleeding at all and I had to use the FreeStyle meter. With the price of strips at the drugstore, I started to shop online and since a few years, I've been buying my strips either on Amazon or even on eBay and never had any problems. Like any shopping on line, you have to be careful. If you go with eBay, just make sure the seller is OK and from your Country, boxes are well sealed, not damaged and check the expiry date.
Hope you can get strips at a more decent price than at the pharmacy for your little Pumpkin!

 

[Larry and Kitties]

Here is an answer to one of the questions for these strips. I would guess that is why they are less expensive than from other sellers. They should still be fine is you use a Lite meter. If one used them in a AlphaTrak meter then question is to what code to use fi the code on the

Since these are imported from the UK, I highly doubt that FSA would pay for them, even though they are more accurate than the American made(Abbot), that we get from the pharmacy, but i would rather pay out of pocket for more accurate numbers. Since using the strips from Amazon, my a1c readings have been more in the “normal” range than with the test strips from the pharmacy. see less
By thundar on January 1, 2023