I don’t know if one glucose monitor is much different than another. There are standard glucose solutions that can be used to check the monitor if that is your concern. I just go by reviews on Amazon or something like that.

Factors to consider:
1) Cost of test strips … normally this is where the money gets spent.
2) Less of a cost is the lancets for drawing blood, always use a fresh one, it is stupid to get an infection from picking your finger.
3) Be aware that a weak battery could cause bad results.

Basically I just picked a meter that has good reviews and supply costs were halfway reasonable. Test strips can be a major expense if one isn’t careful.

I was pre-diabetic for a few years. High fasting blood glucose.

The lancets are cheap, it is the test strips that can get costly.

Hello, @jsmitty
I’ve heard that women can fasting, but there is a difference between male fasting and female fasting. Female fasting should have longer lime of eat and shorter time of starving than male 🙂 There is about 2h difference.
Have you heard about that?