FreeStyle Optium Neo Reviews

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by Peter 41-60 years old | Type 2

27 July 2016

The meter is lightweight and has a clear display. I'm not a great fan of bleeps on meters as sometimes you want a discreet test and the Optimum Neo is silent on the down side there is no light. The best feature of the Neo is the integration with the Freestyle software which allows you to create your own log books and a really handy summary report to discuss with your healthcare nurse or GP. I would recommend the Optimum Neo as the testing is consistent and easy to use and is good at producing trends.

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by Hellie Sara 41-60 years old | Type 1

27 July 2016

I chose this meeting because it does both BG and Ketones. On the plus side it is compact and easy to download historical readings. On the negative side, the test strips come individually wrapped (over-packaged) and don't always register when inserted into the meter: they have to be wiggled around. I have had the meter for 6 months and already needed to replace the battery - this seems a short battery life but I do not know how old the original batteries were when I got the meter. It was not clear that the batteries were running low.

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by Anonymous 24-40 years old | Type 2

1 May 2017

I have found this product to be a let down. I have got two of these readers and both have the same troublesome issues. Both machines give to little time when getting a blood sample onto the test strip and when inserting the test strip you have to giggle it in the slot for it to register on both of the readers .One of the readers can take up to 5mins of wiggling the test strip before it registers. I found the freestlyle optium as a much more reliable reader. Just thankfully ive got an old one to fall back on.

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by Finger sore 41-60 years old | Type 2

9 November 2016

It's nice and big and clear display and it's great that can be printed off the computer nice and compact

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by John Peterson 41-60 years old | Type 1

11 May 2017

The most unreliable meter I've used in my 25 years as type 1. Strips constantly don't register. Switches itself off once strip inserted or once blood supplied before reading produced thus wasting strip. Has let me once while out for the day, refused to work and could not take any reading all day. Complained and sent replacement, same, replaced again, same! Batteries don't last long and beyond me why in this age all meters don't have a backlight option.

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by John Peterson 41-60 years old | Type 1

23 November 2016

Sadly disappointed with this meter. I've had to replace 3 times for the same issues. When inserting a strip the meter will switch off. Or meter will not even turn on. I need to be able to depend on my meter and have complete confidence it will perform. I find the menu difficult to navigate and to make use of it's features. The readings I find are higher when glucose is out of range compared to my other meter. The screen is good in daylight, but I am at a complete loss as to why meters are still produced without a backlight for night time testing. Gone back to using my Insulinx meter. It's bigger, but find the results much more consistent, plus has a backlight as I do a lot of night time testing. It has also never let me down in any way.

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