A new blood sugar meter called the “Con­firm” has been intro­duced from ReliOn. It is a top-quality mon­i­tor and a big money-saver on glu­cose strips.

Here’s my user review.

• Save Lots of Money on Glu­cose Strips

One of the high­est costs for dia­bet­ics is glu­cose test strips. Many peo­ple with dia­betes test at least once or twice a day. Insulin-dependent dia­bet­ics are likely to test their blood sugar any­where from three to ten times a day. A box of fifty strips aver­ages from thirty to forty dol­lars, or from sixty to eighty cents a strip.

The daily cost of blood sugar test­ing for most dia­bet­ics runs from one to five dol­lars a day.

With ReliOn you save almost half the cost of other glu­cose strips.

A box of fifty strips for the ReliOn Con­firm is $21.94, or just forty-four cents per strip. These are the same strips used in the ReliOn micro meter. The strips are sold sep­a­rately from the meters. ReliOn strips are cov­ered by some insur­ance plans and Medicare Part B.

The ReliOn Con­firm is a Top-Quality, Easy-To-Use Blood Sugar Meter

The Con­firm has all the fea­tures and all the sim­plic­ity that peo­ple want in their meter.

I pur­chased one for myself and rec­om­mend it. In fact I am switch­ing from my ReliOn “micro” to the Con­firm. Here’s the details why:

• Accu­racy — I did two quick blood sugar tests on each of three meters: my ReliOn micro meter, my True­Track meter and the new Con­firm. Both the micro and the True Track meters test results ranged from 109 to 120 mg/dl while the Confirm’s range was much tighter: 102–104 mg/dl.

• No Cod­ing Required — No fum­bling around with a code key when you open a new box of strips. Just pop in a strip and test.

• Small sam­ple size — The Con­firm needs only a tiny dot of blood — 0.3 micro­liters — half the sam­ple needed by their Ultima meter.

• Alter­nate site test­ing — Though I use my fin­gers for test sam­ples, you don’t have to. The Con­firm is val­i­dated for alter­nate site test­ing such as on your arm.

• The Con­firm has a 360-test mem­ory with time and date stamp. It will also aver­age your tests over 14 or 30 days.

The Con­firm is 4x2 inches and is thin and light. It is avail­able in steel blue and magenta-pink (“Beyond Blue” and “Per­fect Pink”). It comes with a log book, Quick Ref­er­ence Guide and User Instruc­tion Man­ual in Eng­lish and Span­ish, and a registration/comment card.

One thing I found mis­lead­ing is that the box adver­tises “Down­load­able test results” and “Down­load equip­ment avail­able”. The instruc­tions in the box directed me to the cus­tomer ser­vice num­ber, (800) 631‑0076. What they offer is a $60/year sub­scrip­tion so you can upload your infor­ma­tion where it is stored, sorted, aver­aged and charted for you, etc.

What they do not offer (and what I wanted) is soft­ware and a cable to down­load the infor­ma­tion from the meter to the com­puter. Cus­tomer ser­vice told me they “may have it soon”.

All in all I am happy with the meter and I think most dia­bet­ics would be happy with it too — espe­cially with the ease of use and the money saved on test strips. Your can get your own ReliOn Con­firm blood-sugar meter at WalMart.

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