Re: GlucoWatch 2 - don't bother
- From: Gene <What@xxxxxx>
- Date: 29 Apr 2007 13:44:18 GMT
"Jeff" <jeff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
news:4633a1d1$0$5402$b9f67a60@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:
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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