Prodigy glucometer.. how reliable is it?

[kimouette]

Hi everyone,

My good friend Alain has been using a Bayer Contour EZ for a while. He recently changed for a Prodigy (cuz the tests strips cost half the price of the Coutour's!) and eversince that change, we got unstable results. Maybe his cat is unstable (even though she was stable until he changed the glucometer), but just to make sure, he started to test 2 or 3 times in a row to see how accurate it is.

For exemple,
Within a matter of seconds he got :
83 - 104 - 97
then 122 - 104 - 112
then 97 - 104

Also eversince he started using the Prodigy, the results got more elevated... the cat shows signs of hypo when her results are what used to be a perfect nadir!

Is it always like this? I mean how is it possible to rely on such unstable results? What can he do?

Here's Farine's spreadsheet : https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc ... _web#gid=0

Thanks for your help!!
Kim and Alain

 

[BJM]

Did he do any paired tests using both meters on the same drop of blood?

And if it isn't working safely, maybe try the Glucocard 01 or 01 mini from our shopping partner ADW, or a branded version, the ReliOn Confirm or Confirm Micro from another shopping partner, WalMart.

 

[Larry and Kitties]

The accuracy is only +/- 20% and those values fall within that range

 

[kimouette]

Did he do any paired tests using both meters on the same drop of blood?

Only twice, but he did.
10/06/13 : Contour : 99 Prodigy : 88 Which is weird by the way since I clearly suspect the Prodigy to have a tendency of showing higher values than the Contour not the opposite
10/19/13 : Contour : 83 Prodigy : 104 and a second later, 97

And if it isn't working safely, maybe try the Glucocard 01 or 01 mini from our shopping partner ADW, or a branded version, the ReliOn Confirm or Confirm Micro from another shopping partner, WalMart.

Alain lives in Canada (province of Quebec). americandiabeteswholesale only ships in the States and Walmarts in Canada are not as huge as in the states (no diabetic material at all). We basically have to buy everything on Ebay (which takes a while to be received at home), so in the end I think Alain is simply going to boycott his Prodigy glucometer!!

The accuracy is only +/- 20% and those values fall within that range

Thanks a lot Larry! I'm not surprised, but disappointed. Any idea what the Bayer Contour EZ accuracy percentage would be?? And which glucometer is the most accurate on the market?


** The 2 sad things are that the Bayer's test strips are always gonna cost Alain a lot of money and that he also lost a lot of money by buying the prodigy glucometer and hundreds of test strips that are just going to be useless!!