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I'm finding that a smart ring (NOT from a major supplier) -- one that I got for less than $30, does a pretty good job detecting heart rate, blood oxygen, and heart rate variation (in addition to sleep and activity). I bought two -- one was wildly inaccurate. The other, on my finger as I type...

I'm set for Saturday. Got blood work, carotid CT scans with and without contrast. Met with doctor, who called the Barostim rep and sort of put my mind at ease (most questions are my wife's concerns). It sounds like a very simple outpatient procedure - 40 minutes under the knife, a bit of...

Yes. 2+2 doesn't always equal 4. The doctor has his own mini-surgical center. I'm sure he'll charge Medicare a good chunk. He'll probably charge Medicare a healthy amount for the device. He has a vascular surgeon from UCLA doing the operation - which doesn't necessarily mean that this surgeon...

Roche is big enough that they can manufacture in almost any country. I'm not particularly sure about supply issues. Plus - if tariffs are imposed on their exports, they may start manufacturing in the United States as a way to keep the prices down.

Latest update: I had nuclear study (my brain froze at the name) a few months ago. My echo was even further back. My endurance has been waning - although I haven't been pushing myself, either. Yes, I'm my own worst enemy. My electrocardiologist suggested that I get a Barostim - a recently...

Pellicle - for strips that are so important to the millions who rely on them, perhaps your concern about the strips being manufactured in one location makes sense - although, as far as we know, there may be multiple factories in Germany that make them. Most of the strips are made with dates 18...

There are FOUR now, Perhaps whatever scared eBay about posting these meters (or somehow these got past their filters), it's nice to see that a few (maybe the first few in quite a while are getting listed).

I took another look at the offering. There's a higher price that includes VAT (value added tax?), bring the price higher - but still lower than the U.S. price. OTOH - there are U.S. retailers who sell the meter with 24 or 48 strips (or alone) for not a whole lot more (and I won't mention names...

IIRC, the XS throws up only a short list of error codes. The InRange, with more memory (and probably a lot more diagnostics) probably has the smarts to report more error codes. I wonder how many of these can be cleared just by resetting (or maybe restarting) the meter. It's interesting that...

The most annoying thins was the tab at the top with Black Friday Deals. I think there's a limit to how commercial this site becomes. Having a strip supplier listed as a sponsor is a lot less intrusive than 'Black Friday Deals.'

This looks like a great price, but, then again, the words 'if the price is valid' are extremely important in this case. How can this company buy (and sell) a meter that they probably have to pay more for - even at a wholesale price? Is this perhaps funded by an organization that wants to see...

Be careful not to leave any remnants from the cotton swab when you clean the contacts.

Pellicle: Timmay and I were both stating our experience with an alternative to SelfCareDepot. What we got was not crap like what must have been on Facebook and Reddit (as you've said). The things from this alternate provider are legitimate. As I've already said, I plan to support this site's...

I didn't take it that way. And I don't want to be perceived as pushing anyone to either (or other) suppliers. I've only used Reliaston once and had a good experience with them. I suspect that others here had good experiences from SelfCareDepot. I suspect that when eBay still allowed sales of...

IIRC, Reliaston's code for 10% off (savewithreliaston) didn't seem to expire. Your strips from Reliaston might cost even less if you use the code. The code probably also applies to meters. If SelfCareDepot's prices and expiration dates on the strips match or are better than Reliaston, I'll...

FWIW - I don't know what SelfCareDepot (a sponsor here) charges for the InRatio (I think he said he'll have some in a few weeks), but I saw that Reliaston has them, apparently in stock, and if you use the code Savewithreliaston, you get 10% off. If you're REALLY in a hurry to get an InRange, and...

Weather aside, it's probably good to be near enough to Niagara Falls to be able to walk into Canada to get meter and strips. You may even be able to use a coupon that one of those here mentioned. It may be good to be in the upper North end of the U.S. - perhaps with cities just north of you...

The InRatio was a dangerous device, and was recalled by the FDA for good reason. Results were inacccurate for some (many?) people - myself included. I trusted this dangerous device. I was getting 2.6 -- I had a TIA (or a stroke) after a few weeks trusting that thing, and the hospital's INR...

Roche won't sell to people in the United States - they want us to use anticoagulation services - a big waste of money for those of us who self-test (and many of us who self-manage). It switches the liability to the 'services' and away from them. I don't know if you can even buy, with a...

I was thinking about something similar the other day. I was in college when the Viet Nam war heated up. I was number 15 in the draft lottery -- my number probably would have been called, if I wasn't a full time student and diagnosed with allergies that kept me out of the service. I was...