GlucoWatch 2 - don't bother
- From: "Jeff" <jeff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2007 23:30:55 GMT
I was excited to see the GlucoWatch 2 on sale in the US finally a few weeks
back. So I went and accosted my doctor to sign the perscription, faxed over
my documents and ordered it at the fabulous new low price of $300. My
expectations were already pretty low since I know someone who had the first
version of the watch that didn't work very well and I've read posts from the
UK where folks have not been overly impressed. But I still had hopes that
perhaps it would provide _some_ value in monitoring trends at a minumum if
not flat out accurate readings.
It doesn't.
I've been using it for several days now and it's just completely and utterly
useless for anything whatsoever. The readings are sporatic and wildly
inaccurate, like others I find it irritates my skin badly, it often wont
calibrate at all and 3 times it just fritzed out entirely displaying garbage
on the screen - no error codes no nothing. The watch had to be reset and a
new back applied. Several times it simply would not accept the calibration
entries - after entering 4 or 5 blood readings in over the period of an hour
or so I just gave up and put another back on. Very flakey...
To be clear, I've been wearing this in a nicely air conditioned office
during the day in all cases. No persperation issues, no wild movements
(unless you consider typing to be possibly disruptive), no hair on the arms,
no nothing. Ideal conditions for such a device.
It's not even good to let you know that you're trending up or down at all -
Today I took finger sticks every two hours and monitored it against what the
watch said (when it wasn't skipping for the mysterious "data" error reason).
Starting at 6am my sticks gave me 121 in the morning, I was down to 109 by
8am, 111 at 10, 98 at 12 and so on - it was a pretty liniar day. The watch
reported I was at 141 by the time it finally kicked in and started reading
around 9am - then it went to 107, back up to 131, then 144, then a bunch of
skips, then 130, then 104, then a bunch of skips followed by 124 etc...
etc... it's all over the boards. If it were off and at least generally
liniar, that'd be ok, but this is just completely useless.
And in case anyone was wondering - the "2" in GlucoWatch 2 does not mean
it's new - mine was manufactured in 2002. Check your serial numbr when you
get it - it'll be at least 3 years old. Pretty clear to me they're dumping
these defective devices on the market at a cut price to make back as much
money as they can before tanking completely. I can see why no one with a
reputable name wanted to go in with these guys on this device - it's clearly
not ready for prime time.
Don't waste your money. It sounds like a nice idea worth trying, it's not.
If you just can't help yourself and must try it - you can buy mine at a
fraction of the price!
-Jeff
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