# Freestyle strips usage with Freestyle Lite monitor

**URL:** <https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/freestyle-strips-usage-with-freestyle-lite-monitor/7313>\
**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")\
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**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")

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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):
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> 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…

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