Comment by ezconnect
3 hours ago
This is how the consumer Glucose meter market works. The machine is free and it only accept their rebranded sticks.
3 hours ago
This is how the consumer Glucose meter market works. The machine is free and it only accept their rebranded sticks.
It's really crazy.
$20 for the glucose meter. $1 for each test strip. And you are expected to be testing yourself around 10 times per day.
CGMs are much cheaper by comparison since it's a one time sensor installment for 15 days worth of monitoring. Though you are still looking at anywhere from $100/$300 per 15 day sensor.
Nuts considering these sensors are literally just a metal spike hooked into a small DSP sensing the voltage and transforming it into a glucose value.
The spike is coated in a thin layer of silver cloride which interacts with the glucose in the blood to make that voltage, pretty neat [1]
But hard to justify that $600/month price tag when you really bust out what these little plastic boxes are actually doing.
[1] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8764584/