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Permalink Reply by Marie B on April 15, 2012 at 4:33am

I use the Accu-chek Aviva, the sample size is pretty small imo, and the lancing device(multiclix) that comes with it is the least painful one I've ever tried in all my years of testing (type1 45 years). I always check my blood in the parking lot after I've had my quarterly blood draw, so I can compare it to the lab results, and it's always within 5 or so points.

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Permalink Reply by JKD1 on April 15, 2012 at 5:02am

Here is a link to a pdf file to all available blood glucose meters in Finland:

http://www.diabetes.fi/files/2034/sokerim_katselu_2012.pdf

Blood sample sizes are listed there.

My personal favourite is Glucocard X-mini plus- meter (with X-sensor strips), 0.3 µl sample size. Excellent meter.

Abbott Freestyle Lite has 0.3 µl sample size, too.

Both meters are accurate according to this test (pdf):
http://bionimeusa.com/files/journal_papers/IDT_Report.pdf

One Touch needs 1 µl, over 3 times as much.

Accu-Chek Aviva needs 0.6 µl.

I use Multiclix as my lancing device.

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Permalink Reply by garidan on April 16, 2012 at 7:04pm

Lifescan Verio (Pro or IQ) requires 0,4 µl and are very very accurate. Their measures seem higher than other glucometers but they are very near YSI full blood measures in low as well as high BG ranges.
Here a good test by Norvegian SKUP labs (link), they check many glucometers (link)

BGStar or iBGStar by sanofi/agamatrix are other good meters, 0,5 µl sample.

As my lancing device I use Fastclix by accucheck: it has a drum of 6 lancets, it's soft and fast to use.

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