# Freestyle strips usage with Freestyle Lite monitor **URL:** \ **Category:** Type 1 & LADA\ **Tags:** omnipod\ **Created:** [April 26, 2019, 12:02am UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/freestyle-strips-usage-with-freestyle-lite-monitor/7313 "2019-04-26T00:02:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Trying](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forum.fudiabetes.org/trying/32/4078_2.png) [@Trying](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/Trying)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2019, 12:02am UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/freestyle-strips-usage-with-freestyle-lite-monitor/7313/1 "2019-04-26T00:02:03Z")
I just learned that my insurance no longer supports Freestyle teststrips. As if April 1, they said the FDA no longer approves Freestyle Lite steps for the OmniPod, only Freestyle strips. I had been only getting the lites so I could use them with my tiny Freestyle Lite monitor as well. Can I use the Freestyle test strips with the Freestyle Lite monitor? Does anyone else have this problem? ---
**Author:** ![ClaudnDaye](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forum.fudiabetes.org/claudndaye/32/5_2.png) [@ClaudnDaye](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/ClaudnDaye)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2019, 12:03am UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/freestyle-strips-usage-with-freestyle-lite-monitor/7313/2 "2019-04-26T00:03:45Z")
I think I heard that the Freestyle strips are interchangeable. ---
**Author:** ![Trying](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forum.fudiabetes.org/trying/32/4078_2.png) [@Trying](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/Trying)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2019, 12:13am UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/freestyle-strips-usage-with-freestyle-lite-monitor/7313/3 "2019-04-26T00:13:17Z")
I’ve been using the lite strips with OmniPod for a few years, even though it is a Freestyle, not a lite. The website for the Lite says that only the Lite strips are supported. I’ll test them on the Lite monitor once I receive the Freestyle strips. I’ll post the results. ---
**Author:** ![ClaudnDaye](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forum.fudiabetes.org/claudndaye/32/5_2.png) [@ClaudnDaye](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/ClaudnDaye)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2019, 12:15am UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/freestyle-strips-usage-with-freestyle-lite-monitor/7313/4 "2019-04-26T00:15:22Z")
We’ve ONLY been using Freestyle strips with our OmniPod PDM. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Trying](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forum.fudiabetes.org/trying/32/4078_2.png) [@Trying](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/Trying)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2019, 12:26am UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/freestyle-strips-usage-with-freestyle-lite-monitor/7313/5 "2019-04-26T00:26:50Z")
I like using the Lite because it is so much smaller and easy to use. Usually only use the OmniPod Freestyle when I need to calibrate! ---
**Author:** ![Tapestry](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forum.fudiabetes.org/tapestry/32/4434_2.png) [@Tapestry](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/Tapestry)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2019, 4:45am UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/freestyle-strips-usage-with-freestyle-lite-monitor/7313/6 "2019-04-26T04:45:37Z")
I’ve only ever used Freestyle strips with my OmniPod PMD, but I have read, here I believe, that I can use Freestyle Lite strips with the PDM with no problem. I’m going to see if I can find the post. This is the post I was recalling: > [@Prescription app?](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/prescription-app/4592/10): > > I totally understand the screw-ups. But for what it’s worth, the FreeStyle strips are interchangeable. The FDA hasn’t approved it yet. And I guess they aren’t even trying to get approval. So they just tell you to use that one particular type of strip. But you can use either strip. The reason I know they both work, and it is just an FDA red-tape kind of thing? When compared to the readings I get using my FreeStyle Lite meter and PDM with the same strip, they are always the same (within 1 o…