Do you know your dominant hand will also give a slightly higher reading?

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I used the Relion meter from Walmart for years..I actually bought one for my son. They are as accurate as the more expensive ones. Good luck

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Hello All I am not obsessed with my number my regular doctor want my morning sugar to be under 100 and meter say 85 or 89 and the other one say 104 i just done it to see with a cheat meter like Walmart brand or a Keto Mojo meter will be the same or not... Thanks for all that response to the question

How "different" were the readings?

Have you tried the same drop of blood on both meters (which should absolutely be the same)?

That would tell you if the meter is actually off or they both read two different blood sugar levels

Also you have to allow for the accuracy rate which on the best meters is about +/- 5% with the standard to get FDA certified being 15%

So if a lab tested your blood and said say 120 points, 5% variance would cover all readings between 114 and 126 and all would be considered "accuarate enough" and if the meter is only as good as the FDA standard then any reading between 102 and 138 is "accurate enough for the FDA"

Sounds like a lot to us who are obsessed with our numbers but really plus or minus 20 points, which will be changed in a few seconds anyways (our blood sugar bounces around quite a bit sometimes depending what we are doing), but the "slightly flawed number" the meter gives is still good enough to make decisions

Of course an insulin user doing dynamic dosing would want the most accurate machine on the market (or simply wear a CGM which should be mandatory with Insulin use), but for the rest of us, commercial meters from the major brands are more than accurate enough for what the user would need to know based on a single blood drop representing 1 second of information in a very long day