Some strips read other sugars as "glucose". They all have different chemical systems.

FreeStyle is one that will register mannose/mannitol, and other -ol sugar alcohols.

One Touch as a rule is better IMO.
Also the strips may be off, 10 pts either way, as a rule.
And calibrating with a test solution to see if the meter is off.

This thread discusses glucometer systems and gives links to details.
http://neurotalk.psychcentral.com/sh...ght=glucometer

Thank you for this heads-up. I will take if i take anything with sugar alcohols in the food.

The reason why i want my glucometer is even a small amount of blood can be read. And it looks like the results are close to the range of LABCORP.

Thank you Mrs.D.

The "diabetes digest" site could not be opened anymore but i could still open the other site. One of the medicines in the that may cause elevated sugar is RIFAMPIN!!! I mentioned this to my pulmo during my visit today, as expected he is not aware that Rifampin can elevate BS. No one among his patients has mentioned anything about it. I guess, no one has maybe ever mentioned to him because no one has ever made the connection.

I will take note on which days do the numbers elevate more than normal, if this happens on "medication days" or not. I take the antibiotics every M-W-F.

Thank you Mrs.D.