Freestyle Lite Meter vs. Alpha Trak vet meter

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donnahc

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Morning everyone!
Just thought I’d post to ask if anyone has any opinions on this subject.

Two months ago when we were dx’ed, our vet told us to get an AlphaTrak vet meter. We got one right away even tho it was expensive. We thought we had to do it. It’s big, errors a lot, take more blood, and the strips
are more than double the price of the human meter strips, made by the same manufacturer, Abbott.

So I got a Freestyle Liter meter (Abbott also). I love it. We did one comparison, it was almost 30 points lower than the vet meter.
But for the last month we have been using the human meter because it seems everyone else here uses them. And we like it.
(My vet told me I shouldn’t use the human meter. She was a bit annoyed with me about it.)

This morning we got a low amps: 138. Since I was in disbelief about the 138, I dug out the AlphaTrak pet meter
just to see the diff in reading. We got a 193 on that. Now I know I am supposed to pick a meter and stick with it. But I just had to know.
And that is 50 points different. You might make a different decision on a bg of 138 vs 193. My concern is we are giving our cat enough insulin.

So, any thoughts or experience on this subject?
 
yep, in a nut shell. pick one meter and stick with it and dose according to that. meters, even the same one, two tests one after the other, or two of the some one can and will give different readings. you are allowed +/- 20% difference
 
Stick with the Freestyle, dose according to those numbers, and in at least a month's time, run a fructosamine test and get an overall average. I had used years ago the Bayer Elite but test showed she was only in fair control. Went back to dosing on my OTU and next test showed she was in excellent controll. AT, IMHO, is just a money maker for Abbot but.......by sending out reps to promote it, they did enlighten some vets to hometesting.
 
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