“I don't know whether to give two stars or three stars. Firstly, the meter's ability to check both ketones and glucose is five stars. The problem comes in when you consider how the meter case and particularly the individually packaged strips work. It would have been easy to test the case in a manner that it becomes obvious that one is likely to lay the case on ones lap or one leg in a seated position. But the meter slips too deeply into the netting. Since blood testing involves one hand, it is important to arrange for mise en place, or "setup" in advance. The meter will slip via gravity down into the "too deep" netting and trying to pull the meter out of the 'too deep' netting in the case with only one hand is easy enough to fix if you don't use the case on your lap. So a little thinking in advance, or a bit of practice, will allow you to adjust for all those considerations. But that's minor, and product designers should not be expected to think of "everything". But its pretty basic, no? Sit down, place the zipped case on your lap, open it up, pull out the meter, and if you set it down, at all...it slips down into the 'too deep' netting. So you lean not to set the case on your lap, you set it aside, and that is less than than optimal when you could simply place the case on your lap and maintain easy access to all your supplies. This again is minor. What really took stars away from a five star review is the fact that the individual plastic packaging on the strips are awful to open and the strips are too fragile, meaning you have to be careful opening the super-strong plastic packaging while making sure not to break the strip in half. Maybe there is advantage individually packaging the strips and if so, ok. But please figure out a way to open the strips from their packaging more easily.”
“I like the ketone strips but I don’t feel the glucose strips are accurate. I test my glucose with prescription strips and your strips are around 8-10 points higher. Do you have a explanation as to why your strips read higher?”
