Living with Diabetes and Lapband

It does alternative site testing. I generally use my right forearm, and after 6 months of testing, I have a nice set of scabs. That's okay, because I can now use the lancelet at depth 1, and never feel the lancelet at all.

Their television commercials are right!

And if you have a good monitor and it doesn't hurt, you will test more often.

Several of my friends have tried it, and they like it better than their meters too.

A good review:

Freestyle Review

Customer service is great with them. I put a Radio Shack battery in mine, and it promptly started going south. I called the 1-800 number at 9:30 pm and someone was right on the line with me. Unfortunately the silly thing stopped failing.

Next morning it started acting up again. I called, and again someone right on the line. We both figured it was the test strips (I forgot I'd changed the battery). He sent me a broken monitor kit, which included a new monitor and new test strips.

A few hours later, I got home and was using a different lot of test strips entirely, it was still acting goofy. Talked to another customer service rep, who ordered me a broken monitor kit.

Now here's the fun part. I ended up with an extra meter, an extra lancing device, 200 extra test strips, a new video on how to use the meter, and extra lances. Boy did I end up ahead. I had no idea they were both sending me extra monitor kits, but they should have known. I never have heard what was happened.

FYI: that's when I hit my first low, and I didn't treat it right away as I knew I couldn't get that low, I'd just read a medical journal that say Type 2's didn't get too low. I am not willing to bet the author is right, just because I stayed conscious that time.

There is also a data connect and software system but I have not sprung for that yet. I do well with my Palm Pilot (see software).