On 01/02/2021 13:46, Caecilius wrote:
I want to monitor my blood glucose as I have a family history of
diabetes and have been diagnosed as early stage prediabetic. My GP
says I don't need to do this and should monitor once per year with a
blood test. I'd rather monitor it myself as well, so I think this
counts as DIY.

I'm confused by the large number of meters & test strips available,
and most articles I read are either marketing puff or clickbait that
ends up talking about what meters do and why its useful, which I know
already.

Just wondering if anyone on the forum has any opinions on a meter
that:

a) Is simple & inexpensive (I don't need bluetooth, app integration
etc)
b) Is reasonably accurate (I'd hope they all need to meet an accuracy
standard anyway)
c) Has test strips that are reasonably cheap and easily available.

I'll only be measuring a couple of times a day at home, so no need for
"lifestyle" stuff.

Picking up the thread and running with it, I found the recent R4
interview with Tim Spector interesting. It struck me he was perhaps a
bit "one track" but it was interesting that he described use of portable
monitors bluetoothed to the phone to give a continuous reading as he was
investigating his own metabolism.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000rlpz

Anyone looked at that sort of monitor? Presumably for non-diabetics
absolute accuracy is less important, the interesting thing is trending
(cf heart rate monitors on fitness bands and watches).