# Prescription app?

**URL:** <https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/prescription-app/4592>\
**Category:** Medicines\
**Created:** [July 27, 2018, 11:09pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/prescription-app/4592 "2018-07-27T23:09:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![Eric](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forum.fudiabetes.org/eric/32/9209_2.png) [@Eric](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/Eric)\
**Post date:** [July 27, 2018, 11:53pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/prescription-app/4592/10 "2018-07-27T23:53:39Z")

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> [@ClaudnDaye](#):
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> MOST of the time it’s something very stupid that we’ve told them 1,000 times about - like, we use FREESTYLE test strips NOT FREESTYLE LITE!

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 or 2 points).

- Health Canada has approved the use of both FreeStyle and FreeStyle Lite strips for use with the OmniPod PDM.

So the Canadian version of the FDA is once again one step ahead of the U.S. FDA…

![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/uploads/fudiabetes/original/2X/2/21564d160941ecf4ff6e388634a73a9497ec980d.jpg)

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