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Blood ketone meters - does anyone have recs?

RalfLott
RalfLott Posts: 5,036 Member
edited December 2024 in Social Groups
My insurance now covers blood ketone test strips (no idea how many) and a blood ketone/glucose meter every 3 years. Does anyone have experience with home blood ketone testing? I'd like to get moving on this before the benefit disappears...

How about the Ketonix breath ketone tester?

Thanks for any insights!

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  • Sunny_Bunny_
    Sunny_Bunny_ Posts: 7,140 Member
    I got a Nova Max glucose and ketone meter free from their website. It came with a few strips (maybe 5) to start.
  • RalfLott
    RalfLott Posts: 5,036 Member
    Sunny_Bunny_ wrote: »
    I got a Nova Max glucose and ketone meter free from their website. It came with a few strips (maybe 5) to start.

    Any thoughts on that model? I'm guessing your in such a smooth groove that you really don't need to test.....

    Thx!

  • Phrick
    Phrick Posts: 2,765 Member
    I have the Precision Xtra, I like it very well and it is one of the most recommended ones among blood ketone meters, but I have never used any other so have nothing else to compare it against. I have to pay cash for the strips and they're flipping ridiculously expensive (even open box on eBay)
  • T1DCarnivoreRunner
    T1DCarnivoreRunner Posts: 11,502 Member
    edited August 2016
    Precision Xtra, but I don't have experience with anything else either. It seems fairly accurate, but like @Phrick said, the price for strips is outrageous. I never use it, but if you really really want to be sure you are in ketosis, it is going to be much more accurate than urine strips.

    ETA: Even the co-pays may be expensive. I get them since I'm a type 1 diabetic, but they limit me to 5 test strips per month (if I'm in DKA, that isn't enough anyway because I would need to test often until no longer in DKA - but that wouldn't concern you).
  • Sunny_Bunny_
    Sunny_Bunny_ Posts: 7,140 Member
    I used it every now and then in the beginning and I pretty much tested the same all the time so I didn't buy more strips.
    I tried to get a rx for my daughter but her Endo said there was no need and refused.
    So I just learned how to boost ketones and now that I'm 90% carnivore, I rarely eat more than 10g any day so I don't even think about it anymore.
    I did find the info very interesting at that time since I was learning. They do have value
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