Meter nightmare begins

OMG how can meters be so far off well it has come to our attention in a big way how inaccurate the freestyle lite meter is with cats... for weeks now I have thought he was doing well until recently as noted in previous post that he was showing signs of needing more insulin even though the FSL meter said he was doing great. Well as anyone who goes to his SS can see he is doing poorly its almost back to square one I think jeez I am so annoyed and I am not the only one on the FDMB board having issues. We are slowly getting back up in dose I am upping him every 4 doses for the most part to get him out of the 300 and 400s I mean 400s of all things scary for his kidneys. Been using R pretty much 2x a day a least as well. Hope to see some changes by the end of this week maybe... using A trak for reference and relion confirm and arkray glucocard 01 meters. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AiSqUFZ4jesAdGx5cmJDVDd5TnM5U0VId1k3SDFnYVE&hl=en_US&pli=1#gid=0

11/11/11

well Do Lou has not been doing too well when I reduced him so much about 3/1/2 weeks ago for our 2 day trip I did a very drastic reduction to avoid him going low and when I returned my FSL meter gave me the impression he was still doing well BUT he was drinking and peeing way too much finally got a keytone test and had a trace he never has before so I tried jumping up to half his dose before our trip but 2 doses of 3.5 sent him to 37 so I was baffled you could tell he needed more insulin so ordered more alphatrak strips and got some for my relion and both of them told the story looks like he has been in high 200s to low 300s sigh.............. so I am now going to use relion/arkray for daily and alphatrak as always for my reference I no longer can trust my free style lite and will donate them I think to neebies on FDMB soon hope to get him feeling better soon we are up to 2.75 as of this morning figure he needs to be up to 4-5 at least still got a ways to go