Home Diagnostics Sidekick Blood Glucose Testing System
- No coding required
- Consequences in 5 seconds
- 1 microliter sample size
- Simple 2-step testing¿ just insert strip and test
- Alternative site testing (forearm or fingertip)
Product Description
The SidekickTesting System is there when you need it. In your backpack or briefcase, your sports bag or suitcase, or simply in your pocket. Its small size makes it convenient to take where on earth you go. The SidekickTesting System is the ultimate in ease-of-use and convenience. There is no coding required. When you’re out of test strips, or upon the expiration date, simply discard the unit. What’s best, the all-in-one SidekickTesting System expenditure less than most meters and test strips sold separately. The SidekickTesting System is ideal as a primary system or as a convenient partner to any primary monitoring system.
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Bought the Sidekick because my 2 year ancient Acucheck Compact Plus started reading 65 points lower than my sugar really was. The buy of the Sidekick was to tide me over until I could get my insurance company to buy me a new Acucheck (they won’t). The Sidekick works well, is tiny compared to the Acucheck and has cheaper equipment. Test strips are unfilled for this meter at WalMart. While a solid functional meter, it does have a few less electronic features than the Acucheck. The Sidekick keeps your last 30 tests or so in memory but doesn’t store the date and time like the Acucheck. The Acucheck had other features but none of which I ever used. Other than that it works every bit as well, I strongly reccomend it.
Rating: 4 / 5
My wife is suffering from gestational diabetes and we bought these on the weekend when she ran out of strips for her other tester (Freestyle — we were waiting for more mail order strips). The price is excellent, but the quality doesn’t seem excellent to us. Initially, this requires more blood than other testers. Second you have to do some kind of control test before you can use the strips using a sweet liquid that comes with the strips. When we finally had it ready to start using, the initially several strips didn’t read out and we had to throw them away, wasted. And it seems about 25% of the strips won’t work. When it does work, the reading seemed too high (my wife compared with her Freestyle which read 10 to 20 lower). Maybe we just got a terrible one (we only tried once), but if you can, I’d choose something else over these.
Rating: 2 / 5
The item description on the web gives the impression it is a complete kit – It is not!!! It does not include a very vital part – a lancer something to stab your fiddle with to make the blood collectable for the test. Nor did the write-ups say this is a disposable unit. When the 50 test strips are gone you are to dispose of it – not refill it. I plotting this was a excellent buy – It is not when you take into significance it does not contain a vital element needed to perform the tests, and it is not refilable. I would not have bought if these had been fully told.
Rating: 2 / 5
I’ve used these for the past nine months or so. Wal-mart sells them for around [...] or less each, which includes 50 test strips. The name brands get twice as much money for the strips alone and you’re stuck with a huge glucometer. I wanted to test more regularly than my insurer would pay for, which is why I started using these.
The amount of blood required seems to be half what my One Touch wanted. The slightest stab usually draws enough blood. I haven’t taken it to the doctor’s to compare readings, but the consequences usually match how I feel and where I reckon I should be based on exercise and carb intake. If I skip lunch, the consequences from the Sidekick start to show I’m getting hypoglycemic just as I start to feel it.
The Sidekick does not include a “lance”, so I use the one that came with another glucometer. The Sidekick is very small, looks like a longer version of an ancient 35mm film cartridge. The lit flips up to give access to the strips, which are inside. It would be perfect if they could attach a lance.
The Sidekick “remembers” all 50 tests, so you don’t have to write them down all at once. You push a button on the side of the lid and the readings show on top with the most recent one initially.
You don’t have to set it as you do for the One Touch. There’s a tiny vial of test liquid and you use your initially strip to verify the glucometer is working properly.
Rating: 5 / 5
I bought this product becauseI was out of town and out of strips. I plotting something was not aptly so when I got home I compared readings with two name
meters and the Side Kick readings were 25-30 points lower than the name brand meters every time
(both name brand meters had the same reading on all 4 tests)
Just threw the Side Kick in the Garbage. Certainly not a excellent product in my opinion.
Rating: 1 / 5