UASure Uric Acid Meter Test Kit - Home Monitor Gout Tester - Complete Blood Level Monitoring by UA Sure

My husband developed a gout attack and after I researched other meters I chose UAsure. This is a great tool for checking uric acid levels and easy to use. I actually purchased a second meter for a friend because of the accuracy and the quality of the meter. Worth the money.

I've been using these test strips almost every day for nearly two years: 650 tests from 25 boxes and 9 different production lots. Over those 2 years I've also had 4 uric acid tests through my medical provider and compared results. In all cases I tested my uric acid in the parking lot directly before or after the test from my medical provider to minimize differences from daily fluctuations. I've also tested duplicates within and between boxes. I've found the product to be very good and accurate to the levels that the company represents in the instructions that come inside the box, which is about 0.4 mg/dL at one standard deviation at a reading of 9 Uric acid level. That's a precision of 4 to 5%, and the 4 tests through my medical provider matched the test strips to within +/- 0.5.I've learned a lot about what raises and lowers my blood uric acid levels as a result of these tests, and I've learned that my UA levels can vary significantly from day to day depending on what I eat, how much I exercise, and whether or not I'm fasting. My UA levels range from 4.5 to 11, and I've found that hard workouts and fasting affect my UA levels as much or more than eating meat and high purine foods that are often associated with gout attacks.Overall, a great and reliable way to understand more about your health if you have high UA. But with that said, in my experience it's the hard work of exercise and eating right over the long term that stops gout, not a simple matter of avoiding a few foods that might temporarily elevate uric acid levels or trigger gout. Three years ago I had 4 or 5 severe gout attacks per year. Now, I'm 30 lbs lighter, in better shape, and haven't had an attack in 18 months. The severity of attacks progressively decreased over the 2 years leading up to being gout free as I improved diet and exercise. I did it without medication to lower uric acid levels. Using these test strips helped me understand what was happening with my UA levels along the way.Update 8/29/20: I thought I'd share my UA data for the past couple of years to show what my daily data looked like going from multiple severe gout attacks per year to none in the past 18 months. As you can see, there's a lot of day-to-day variation with a slightly decreasing trend over time. The red line is a 20-day moving average that starts at about 7.8 mg/dL and over 2 years dropped to 6.9 mg/dL. My understanding is that the solubility of uric acid in blood serum is about 7.3 mg/dL, so my average went from above the solubility limit (precipitating UA crystals), to below 7.3 mg/dL (dissolving UA crystals). My doctor prescribed 300 mg Allopurinol daily with the goal of getting my UA below 6.0 mg/dL. I started with 150 mg/dL for 10 days (red dots) and it brought my UA level to below 6.0, a common target (the daily UA test strips tracked the response very well) Allopurinol definitely did the job, and quickly. I decided to discontinue taking the Allopurinol to see what I could do with some serious diet and exercise, and followed that course for two years in cooperation with my doctor. I suspect Allopurinol would have lowered my uric acid levels more, and made me gout-free quicker, but I wanted a natural, healthy, change.One more chart I've added is LDL, HDL, glucose, and total cholesterol, with the yellow highlight in 2017 being about 30 days after starting a serious change in diet and exercise. What stands out to me is that cholesterol showed much more change than uric acid level. Glucose lowered some; LDL lowered a lot... and no prescription meds. I basically eliminated most saturated fats, sugars, and refined wheat in my diet and moved to lots of veggies, fruits, and nuts with some fish and chicken.... and LOTS of exercise.So, a couple of key points in this update... one is to show the actual variability I saw in daily UA levels based on diet and exercise. That variability is not from the test strips, but rather from the body's natural response to diet and exercise. The other is that the very high spikes in my graph were usually after competing in a 14-mile Spartan Beast race or similar hard workout... where I was carb-depleted, dehydrated, and very stressed... but that is great for building physical endurance and working to become gout-free. The third graph is where I measured on closer hourly intervals to see what was happening with blood uric acid levels over time after a stressful workout.. in this case a Spartan race... UA levels spiked after workout stress, and then declined over 48 hours. I never avoided hard workouts just because they temporarily elevated UA levels for 24 to 36 hours... that was actually making me stronger and better.Be strong, be healthy... be curiousMountain Climber

I had my first Gout Flare up in August and I hope to not have another! This little device is helping me to understand what my Uric Acid concentration is and how various things affect that. I studied up on Gout and also joined several helpful groups on FB. Most everyone there spoke about this meter so I knew I needed to get one. Just as a diabetic needs to check their sugar levels gout sufferers need to monitor their Uric Acid. The strips are easy to insert and the results are very much in line with results from my Dr.'s office. In today's world you need to take control of your own health needs and this device is one easy affordable way to do that on a daily basis if you need to. I'm so glad I found this and look forward to using it to keep that nasty gout monster away ... because I have a life to live and if I can be proactive to prevent pain and suffering I'm going to do it.

I test my levels once a week and if I don't wipe the first drops of blood on my pricked finger, I will get a high reading. First reading was 9.1, but second reading was 6.1 as more blood was tested from the same pricked site. Wish I could test the monitor with their test fluid, but $30 is to much for their test fluid.

I feel I have been decieved, I can not speak for the accuracy of this thing yet. However, I do am no medical testing device expert. This kit says it includes it all and more. Right away in the directions it tells you that you need the control solution to make sure it is accurate, well it was not included. It is on their website for nearly 40 dollars. It came with 5 test strips, the first 2(possibly user error) I got an error reading. Its rathery finicky with putting the strip in first, then the drop of blood. If it turns off while you are putting it to the drop, then when it turns back on it considers that one defective, happened two me the first two times as I am trying to have the blood drop form. I feel like it could easily come with more tests, and the solution. I will update review in the future as far as the product goes. I guess in the mean time I will order more tests from them, and the control solution. Their lancets are over priced too, I suggest buying them from another vendor if you plan on using this a lot. I feel it is over priced, or they are taking advantage of us with the price. For now 3 stars, I want to leave 1, but I guess that is not fair, if the product does not work well, once I get the solution, down to a one it is. If I hear from customer service, or the product winds up working great, up to a 4 or 5 it goes. However, I tested at lab a week ago in the 6's and this said low 5's, so I wonder already, but I know it varies, so time will tell, but definitely a pain in the you know what having to pay 40 bucks and wait to get the solution, and right off the bat needing to spend 40 more dollars on only 25 test strips...UpdateI ordered the strips, and the meter, and the control solution. (They do not mention control solution is needed to verify performance, none included, after kit is received I realize this and had to go to website to buy for 30 dollars plus shipping, I was apprehensive of how this would go, felt scamy, so I only bought level one, technically you should buy level 2 as well to test both high and low range of device and strips. And you are to do that everytime you use new strips, or every three months discard the old ones. All very expensive. The control solution says 3.14, the manual says to reference the box of test strips, my solution is level 1. The back of the box of the test strips says the test strips are accurate if level one solution test between 3.7 and 5.3? It tested at 4.3 I am not sure how I am suppose to feel confident in that, it makes no sense at all. Wouldnt you think that the control solution would be set in-between the tolerance thresholds. It wasnt accurate anyway. But the instructions says this is sufficient (or implies with limited literature) Contacted seller, crickets........ Seriously?

Excellent

Not showing results, battery percentage is not displaying ,unable to check my uric acid level.There is no help from Amazon in either getting rectified the problem nor in getting it replaced.

reading are not consistent, not sure about the accuracy