At-Home Cholesterol Screening Equipment

Hi Libby!

I personally have never used any at home test to check my cholesterol.

However, I do have a BP monitor and it shows it's accuracy when I go to the Dr. and I have the same BP there.

I have an at Home "Accu Chek" for my diabetes and so far it's been good!  At the time I got that I checked with my Insurance company and that's what they recommended and I rec'd. it free through them.

So with all that said...why not call your Insurance Co., or check with your Dr./or nurse to see what they would recommend?

Here are a couple of my famous links - lol - to a .gov site that may help.

http://www.fda.gov/cdrh/oivd/homeuse-cholesterol.html
http://www.fda.gov/cdrh/oivd/consumer-homeuse.html

thanks for the input everyone.

teri, i have a rather nice BP monitor and it doesn't really work worth

a flip.  don't know if that's my fault (i.e., the fault of my poor little

ole bod), or just the machine.  when i take mine to the doc's, it's

always WAY off.  WAY OFF.  so i use it only as a semi-guideline.

i wonder how reliable those cholesterol checkers really are.  seems we

would all have one if they were any good, since that's what everyone at

this site needs to or does work so hard on...