? AT3 vs Contour Next Meter

[Fuzzy’s journey]

Human meters vs Alphatrak 3
Started out with AT3 on vet’s recommendation. I cannot afford the strips. I have a Contour Next for myself. Anyone have experience on the mg/dl difference?
I have had so many errors on AT3 strips that Zoetis replaced bottle of strips twice. I have been a type 1 diabetic myself for 42 years. It’s not user error ;-).
I am just wondering how many mg/dl i should add to contour # for accurate reading. I saw 50-100 one time but I do not know if that is accurate. wasted last AT strip tonight trying to compare but came back with err so I have no clue.
contour: 232mg/dl @ 7:30pm
Currently taking:
2u Vetsulin at 8am & 8pm
2.5mg prednisone, 8am
50mg gabapentin, 8am
Flovent inhaler, 8am

 

[Wendy&Neko]

Here is the link to a previous thread where you asked about the conversion between meters: https://felinediabetes.com/FDMB/threads/hello.292084/ The answer, same as given in that thread is that there is no conversion. We've had many people compare pet meters and human meters and you can't convert one to the other. There was no consistent amount of difference between even the same brand of human meter and the AT. The pet meter tends to be higher in high numbers, and the two types of meters are closer together in low numbers where it counts.

In high blood sugar numbers it doesn't matter if the numbers are close, because too high is just "too high". Even between human meters there can be an up to 20% difference.

One of our Lantus dosing methods says that you don't want kitty to go less then 50 on a human meter and 68 on a pet meter. That's not based on comparisons between the two meters. But in general a number than seems to work. That's as close as we have for a comparison. For the longest time, all we used on FDMB was human meters because that's all that was available. The dosing methods we use were developed back when all there were was human meters.

Go ahead and use the Contour meter with Fuzzy if you want too. I used an earlier version of the Contour for a while. It worked perfectly well.

 

[Fuzzy’s journey]

Here is the link to a previous thread where you asked about the conversion between meters: https://felinediabetes.com/FDMB/threads/hello.292084/ The answer, same as given in that thread is that there is no conversion. We've had many people compare pet meters and human meters and you can't convert one to the other. There was no consistent amount of difference between even the same brand of human meter and the AT. The pet meter tends to be higher in high numbers, and the two types of meters are closer together in low numbers where it counts.

In high blood sugar numbers it doesn't matter if the numbers are close, because too high is just "too high". Even between human meters there can be an up to 20% difference.

One of our Lantus dosing methods says that you don't want kitty to go less then 50 on a human meter and 68 on a pet meter. That's not based on comparisons between the two meters. But in general a number than seems to work. That's as close as we have for a comparison. For the longest time, all we used on FDMB was human meters because that's all that was available. The dosing methods we use were developed back when all there were was human meters.

Go ahead and use the Contour meter with Fuzzy if you want too. I used an earlier version of the Contour for a while. It worked perfectly well.

Thank you