Glucometer DEX

Pros: Fastest and Easiest to use. Quick results and no test strips.
Cons: Cartridge moves sometimes

My husband has had diabetes since 1985 and my son just found out that he has diabetes, also so that destroys the old wives tale about diabetes skipping a generation. Every generation in our family has many people with this disease.

Both my...

Pros: self-calibrating test discs are superior to individual strips; computer connection; customer service
Cons: 30-second tests; difficult user interface

My pharmacist convinced me to try the Bayer Glucometer Dex in 1998 as an alternative to my AccuCheck meter. I've been very happy with the Dex ever since. Before then, I was accustomed to meters that used small individual strips. These strips typically ...

Pros: cartridge instead of strips, results can be loaded into computer program, quick, helpful customer service
Cons: cost of cartridges, lancing device more painful than some others

When I first faced testing my blood several times a day and saw a little machine that needed to be manipulated by my numb and clumsy hands -- I have MS -- I began to cry. My tears are gone now and so are about 30 extra pounds. I attribute that to the...

Pros: Self contained strips, compact meter, simple to use
Cons: slower results than some meters, more blood required by comparison to newer meters

This was the first blood sugar meter I ever used. My doctor gave it to me when he told me I had to ...

Pros: Small, travel oriented meter with self contained strips, dandy all in one belt pouch
Cons: Dangerously inaccurate (for me, at least), better traveling meters available (see review)

I always do a review as "things to like" then "things to not like"

Things to like will be fairly short!

Things to like about this product:

Strips kept inside meter, dandy belt pouch holds lancet device and meter.
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Pros: no more strips to carry around, accurate readings, compact design
Cons: none so far

I was diagnosed with Type II Diabetes in April, 2001. I never gave diabetes much thought until I was feeling bad. I typed in my symptoms on a search engine on the internet and the results came up with diabetes related sites. After falling asleep at...

Pros: Stylish look and has 100 test time/date stamp memory.
Cons: Not designed for people with poor hand control and/or poor eyesight.

The Bayer Glucometer DEX blood glucose meter, is the first cartridge type meter marketed here in the US. With it's unique ten test strip per cartridge design which is self calibrating, you have only to use one hand to hold and slide up a thumb...

Pros: none
Cons: not accurate.....hard to get proper results

This monitor was given to me by my doctor when I was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. I liked the High Tech look to the monitor, and also the fact that it took a cartridge, instead of strips. Boy, was I misinformed!!!

As they say, never judge...

Pros: Less Mess
Cons: May be difficult to refill strips

I received my Dex from my Diabetic specialist on my first office visit. I have used other types of monitors and I find the Dex very easy and less messy.

The monitor contains the blood strips inside a disk on the inside of the machine. When you...

Pros: No more strips!
Cons: none

I am a 27 year old Diabetic. I was diagnosed a year after my daughter was born. It took a year before they figured out what was wrong with me.

I used a One Touch at first, then after 2 years of use it was giving me wrong results. I talked...

Pros: Small and compact - very accurate
Cons: occasional test strip jam

My doctors office gave me this meter quite some time ago. I have enjoyed it ever since. It's a lot ...

Pros: Easy to use, small and compact
Cons: Dex strips are quite pricey

After being diagnosed with gestational diabetes I ran out to the store and started pricing glucose monitors. I was shocked at the price range of such machines. Not knowing what I was looking for, they all seemed the same to me. At my visit with the...

Pros: Easy to use, keeps records, small, usuable, compact
Cons: My husband usually has it,

The Dex machine helped to change my mind about testing my glucose levels more often. I had slacked off testing due to the fact that when I pricked my fingers, they became sore because I would : a) drop the testing strip, b) not get enough blood to test,...

Pros: Convenient, compact, cool!
Cons: Needs a better way to store the sharpets.

The Shock, The Horror! To suddenly find out that you are diabetic. The curse was thrown on my with out warning and my mind was flooded with confusion about what it meant. How would this change my life.
Well, it changed it a lot. Diet, exercise,...