I have tweeted and posted a few times lately that I am switching back to the One Touch Ultra strips from my Freestyle Lite strips because the insurance company is charging 6 times the amount, $25 as opposed to $150. I had an older One Touch Ultra Link meter from about 3 years ago that I had used a few times, but of course the battery was dead in it when I went to use it. I was looking all over my house because I knew I had to have had another One Touch meter somewhere around the house. And then I found it.
This nice, small, convenient blue One Touch Ultra Mini meter. I was all excited and ripped open a vial of strips and stuck it in and pricked my finger and put my blood on the strip and….. nothing happened. Hmm, what is going on here, does this meter not work also? Oh, I know, I have never set it up, so maybe I just have to put the date in it. So I start going through the numbers and I stop at 6 because it is June ya know. Then it shows me flashing lines which means insert blood onto strip. WTF is going on here?
OOOOHhhhhhhhhh yeaaahhhh. The One Touch Ultra strips still require coding! I had been using Freestyle Lite for so damn long, that I totally forgot that there was even such a thing as coding. I hate coding, why do I have to code my machine? Why can’t I just stick a strip in, insert blood, and bam, it reads my blood sugar?
lol I do hate coding too, but for some reason with my ultra link for the past 6 months all my test strips have been coded as 25…luck?
All the One Touch meters use strips coded as 25 now… Still have to code, but it’s always 25 at least. I don’t know why they ever have done that. Yet another annoying thing we have to deal with!
yeah i have that one and I was just diagnosed with diabetes about a month ago and the doctor had given me two meters and i just got out of hosptial and have been having suagr spike and it is rising , so I change to the sliver one in stead of the green one and had to figureit out too, I was like what and then i remeber when I use the other one it had a code so i put the code in and it worked, so the free sytle is better or is this one i think my daddy has the freestyle
You know, once you set that code (25), you won’t have to set it again. All strips manufactured by OT now have the same code so you don’t ever have to change it or worry about having the wrong code! 🙂 Cheers!
Actually they kinda don’t require coding now, as all the new strips you buy are TrueBlue and coded for “25” So once you get new strips and Code to 25 you won’t have to code again!
All the One touch Ultra Blue test strips are code 25. So once you set it, you shouldn’t have to change it- I think it’s their way of being backwards compatible. I think some of the the newer versions of the meters come with this fixed as well.