What is a good and accurate diabetes test strip?

[Hayabusa Rider]

also strips and lancets should be covered by you insurance....

There's no insurance.

 

[SheHateMe]

Even if you don't have insurance, you can get lancets and test strips + a walmart meter on the cheap.

Also, Freestyle has a discount program where you only have to pay like $25 for a meter and a few bucks for the supplies.

 

[BeeBoop]

not necessarily the case...

I'm not sure what you are referring too but it very much so is the case that Type 2 can be reversed. If we define reversal of Type 2 Diabetes as returning back to normal insulin sensitivity levels in addition to normal fasting glucose levels, without the aid of medication, it can be in fact reversed. Link to an interesting paper if you want to read more on the topic.

Are you speaking in reference to the word "reversible" in type 2 Diabetes? When speaking about Type 2 Diabetes, "reversible" means going back to normal glucose levels and never being able to become Type 2 Diabetic again. I am assuming that is what you are referring too since many scholars use the term in such way. The problem with this definition is that the term itself is misleading to the general public because the same term isn't applied to the common cold are flu. Is the flu reversible? In laymen terms, yes it is, but if we were to used the word "reversable" it is not. Seems very disingenuous to me.

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[OutHouse]

also strips and lancets should be covered by you insurance....

Nope.

 

[preCRT]

They all want that drop of blood, check around and find the best, least painful lancets and get the device that uses those lancets, then use any meter and strips you want.

Just get the thinnest lancets you can find, it'll be less painful. [The higher the gauge number, the thinner the needle].

I've found lancet holders are basically universally sized, they'll hold any lancet.

My dad uses BD Ultra-Fine 33 gauge lancets.