# So Word on FUD Street is Contour is the Meter to go with.... but why?

**URL:** https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/so-word-on-fud-street-is-contour-is-the-meter-to-go-with-but-why/4506
**Category:** Type 1 & LADA
**Created:** [July 17, 2018, 3:41pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/so-word-on-fud-street-is-contour-is-the-meter-to-go-with-but-why/4506 "2018-07-17T15:41:10Z")
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### Author: ![Aaron](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forum.fudiabetes.org/aaron/32/1454_2.png) [@Aaron](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/Aaron)
#### Post date: [July 18, 2018, 4:28pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/so-word-on-fud-street-is-contour-is-the-meter-to-go-with-but-why/4506/26 "2018-07-18T16:28:27Z")

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> [@Nickyghaleb](#):
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> st can’t get anyone to respect the power of it

ReliOn meters are not available in Canada - so like faeries or gnomes or unicorns, I have seen pictures of them on the internet but they may not really exist 😆

> [@Nickyghaleb](#):
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> The last thing i need is another tester, mechanically neat or not. 😃

I will take a video for you. The meter is just overly complicated but it is beautiful in it’s overcomplication.

> [@Nickyghaleb](#):
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> Anyway, I have “feelings”, too. They’re just completely unreliable.

Last night I was without CGM because my sensor had fallen off. I felt around 3.5 (63) and was going to have some cookie but decided to test anyways. I called out 3.5 to my kids but I had a strip fill problem with the contour (got the message that said add more blood). Reading came out as 2.6 (47). I said no way - I can;t be wrong, so I retested with a giant drop of blood and I was 3.3 (59), which was pretty close to the number I called out.

Moral of the story - I had a chocolate covered hob nob cookie. Moral that wasn’t the moral…

Ok - point 1 - I am either good at feeling my blood sugar or I am just damn lucky.  
Point 2 - I find that with the contour, if you add blood to the strip late (after the underflow alarm) the reading will be really low. Happens all the time to me so I would never calibrate a CGM or treat on the number.

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