Randy's Pmps(Updated)

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Locally, the Walmart strips are usually the best price. You can check out eBay and look for deals on other strips. There are a lot of great meters out there and if you find a good dealer on eBay that you feel confident with, you can buy strips that way.

There are several good meters, the Accu Check Aviva, the One Touch Ultra, Bayer Contour, Freestyle brand meters. I'm sure others have more favorites they can add to this list. You can also find deals for meters a lot of times. Freestyle may have one now.

http://www.myfreestyle.com/fs/d/en_US/7 ... se-program

One Touch
https://www.onetouchdiabetes.com/offers ... 0accu-chek

I haven't tried the links recently, but if you fill out just pretend it's for a kid or for you, they don't give free meters to pets :) Once you get a free meter, you can check eBay for supplies.

Hopefully others will come along wih better ideas for you :)
 
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Ah thanks :)

My aunt has a freestyle light she said she'd give me but I was under the impression that the strips are more expensive than the relion.

Anyways! Were on +5hr and he tested at 115 mg/dl. We're cutting back the testing to hourly instead of half an hour. I suspect he'll stay around the same now?
 
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Well, you certainly had a more interesting morning that we were counting on! The good news that Randy doesn't seem to need much insulin and you may have an off the juice kitty soon. What a fantastic job you have done keeping track of things and testing. When you look at your spreadsheet for the day, it is a nice curve. The lowest point was 92, right? Not bad - just a little nerve racking? And an early nadir as opposed to yesterday's late nadir. Randy is keeping you on your toes!

We bought our strips on ebay. There are lots for sale - mostly by senior citizens who get an ongoing supply every month, needed or not. Just make sure the seller has a good reputation and that the strips have an expiration date you can work with. They cost less than half the drug store price.
 
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Sue and Oliver said:
Well, you certainly had a more interesting morning that we were counting on! The good news that Randy doesn't seem to need much insulin and you may have an off the juice kitty soon. What a fantastic job you have done keeping track of things and testing. When you look at your spreadsheet for the day, it is a nice curve. The lowest point was 92, right? Not bad - just a little nerve racking? And an early nadir as opposed to yesterday's late nadir. Randy is keep you on your toes!

We bought our strips on ebay. There are lots for sale - mostly by senior citizens who need an ongoing supply every month, needed or not. Just make sure the seller has a good reputation and that the strips have an expiration date you can work with. They cost less than half the drug store price.
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Well Randy is at +7 hrs and his bgl is 139. It took us forever to get him to bleed this time and when I flashed a flashlight at his ears, they looked all blood clotted or bruised. Is this normal or common? could this be why we couldn't get the blood? Is there another area to get it from? He really wasn't as cooperative cause it took us close to 30 minutes to do it which could also be why he's at 139 bgl. Any help would really be awesome. Thanks guys. OH! And I saw a video where a woman did it from the paw with the hometesting...is this really an okay idea or no? We were rotating ears all day but I don't know :( He was crying and I felt really bad.
 
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Make sure you put pressure on his ear right after. His ears will toughen up and ypu won't normally test so often. Swtch ears and switch spots. I don't think a paw is necessary yet?

You have done great today

Jen
 
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That's a nice number! He is getting a nice long ride out of .5 units.

One way to help with the bruising is to hold the place you poked for a few seconds after the poke. You can also use neosporin on his ears to help heal any spots - with or without pain reliever. You could alternate ears, but you have been doing that. And you can move up or down the ears along the same line to find a new spot.

Some people do use the paws. Oliver hated his paws touched so that wouldn't have been an option for us. The only thing to watch out for is they need to be clean when poked.

You do want a method that you can use several times a day. I have a feeling Randy will keep you hopping until he finally goes off the juice.
 
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relion does have the cheapest strips as far as in the store goes. and as far as i know, you can only get the strips via walmart. maybe buying the bigger pack is more economical? i think the 50 pack is around $22 or the 100 pack is $50 something if i remember correctly.

freestyle is more expensive than relion for sure (i've used the freestyle meters for 4+ years now). in the stores they run $1.00 something a strip so 100 of those is a hair over $100 :-(

i usually buy mine online, either via ebay, hocks.com, or americandiabeteswholesale.com

i just tried using one that you can only get online and while less expensive, ay yai yai! what a PIA. LOL!! i'm going to switch back to my freestyle meters, or, i'm considering trying the new relion meters, either the micro or the confirm as they sound much like the freestyle in that there is no coding and take the least amount of blood. as long as they don't error out all the time like the one i'm trying now, i might stick with one of them but we'll see.

as far as paw pad testing, yeppers, if your kitty is one of the rare ones that doesn't mind their toes played with, you can certainly do it via the paw. here's a recent thread actually. read thru it and you'll see how many people actually do use the paw pads viewtopic.php?f=9&t=28591&hilit=paw+testing
 
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Thanks for all the replies guys! Randy actually never minds having his feet played with. I even squeeze his toes and play with them and he seems to love it so I might try that until his ears heal up a little more. I'll try some neosporin on them if I have any. They certainly look sore.

I'm really hopeful about his remission :)

And, Cindy I haven't had the Relion Micro do an error on me except once and it was our fault cause we didn't wait to get enough blood. But it needs VERY little and it's great. I've liked it so far. And yeah, they're 9 bucks for 20 strips and the actual meter is 10 or 12 dollars and it comes with the lancet pen. To get 50 strips it only costs twenty dollars :)
 
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I use the Relion Micro and love it. It does time out on me once in a while if Harley takes his sweet ol time getting settled in but needs only .3 for blood.

Someone on the board said that Sam's Club sells the Relion Strips for $18.50 for 50. But I can't swear to it because every time I go there the Pharmacy is closed.
 
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So do you all think it would be okay to wait to test around 8:00 or 8:30. It'd be around +10hrs. I wish we could just wait until before the shot(I hate going through these strips like this today!), but that might not be an option. If it's below 200 at pmps, no shot right? We feed him his second meal at that time before his shot. Should I test before or after he eats?
 
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I think you can wait till the time of the evening shot before testing again. Test before he eats. It'll be interesting to see where he is.
 
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We haven't been able to get any blood out of Randy. However I just realized that the lancets we were using were the ones that came with the pen, the ones we bought are the ultra thin ones. Could this be why?

It's very frustrating on all three of us. Randy is not happy with us. :(
 
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Sue and Oliver said:
Yes. Until his ears "learn" to bleed, the 25-26 gauge lancets work best.
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*head desk and face palm*

I feel like a freaking jerk. Going out to Wal Mart to get the lancets and we'll be back with his bgl soon hopefully!
 
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Phew! The lancets that we now have worked great. His ppm is 118. This is +13hrs right now. So no insulin tonight I assume? Is this a good sign? And should we test again?
 
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