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Permalink Reply by Amy on July 21, 2008 at 10:34am

no. Are you supposed to?

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Permalink Reply by marvin on July 21, 2008 at 11:08am

amy,

yeah it is supposedly be done everytime a new vial is opened, this is to check whether that particular strips is still good. A control is a substance/solution with a known standard/values.

anyways, dont worry about it though, coz we all dont run controls...LOL..

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Permalink Reply by Bek on July 21, 2008 at 11:07am

i've only used the control solution when i get "hand-me-down" strips. like sometimes my endo's office will give me supplies that i need if i can't get them at that time (insulin, meters, strips, a glucogon kit that i doubt i will ever need) and once my friend's dad sent me a box full of his test strips beause he'd started using a different meter. other than that i've never seen the point in killing off a test strip that i had to pay for. i even get mad when i get an error message on my meter and have to test again. the previous strip is angrily chucked into the garbage bin.

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Permalink Reply by Scott E on July 21, 2008 at 11:56am

Nope. I did it once when I suspected my meter/strips were bad (this was the BD meter, which I stopped using after a history of bad results), but I can't remember when else I'd done it. And I think I did it the first time I ever used a blood glucose meter. That's about it. But for some reason I save the solution.

I remember one company had a hard plastic resusable "strip" that you could put in the meter that should always yield the same result. No solution or anything. It was good for validating the meter, but not so much strips. I wish those kinds of things were still made!

Since I go through a vial of 25 strips in 2 days or so anyway, I'll be done with a bad vial soon enough!

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Permalink Reply by summer on July 21, 2008 at 9:08pm

Nope, not since my diabetes education class.

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Permalink Reply by Christine on July 21, 2008 at 11:48pm

Nope! I am SO glad to see I am not the only one! I thought maybe I was being a "bad diabetic". lol

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Permalink Reply by Andy Stanton on July 22, 2008 at 12:38am

Nope, nada, never!

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Permalink Reply by sugarrbabie05 on July 22, 2008 at 9:27am

I only run control if my level seems abnormal. And usually it is cause the strips are bad. But thats only once in a blue moon.

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Permalink Reply by Doris Ann Dickerson on July 22, 2008 at 9:41am

OK Maybe I'm the only one doing this. I guess I don't need to huh?????

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