Had two of these and one Nano. Nano did ok but the Performa started constantly reporting an E-1 code. Now the second one is doing it with a new battery in it and new strips. Genuinely a bad product.

Inaccurate reports of blood sugar level with huge variations barely a minute apart. Frequent errors that do not correspond with the explanations on their website. Battery life terrible.

This product should never be trusted. Waiting for the company to contact me with regard to a refund for machine and strips.

Have no confidence in the Accucheck Performa 3 different readings in 1 minute with up to 2 mmol difference. Big disappointment and worrying considering I marked the first reading as gospel. Might also help if they answered their phones.

I've bough it from Chemist Warehouse because I've run out of my Omnitest 3 teststrips. Lately it was showing 8.4 every morning, sometimes even higher. It didn't make sense. Finally I've got my Omnitest test strips from the UK and tested my blood with both at the same time. My Omnitest was measuring 5.6 while Accu-check was measuring 8.4. Unfortunately we can't buy Omnitest in Australia. Why are they always selling garbage in this country?

I bought AccuCheck performa for my father and he just threw it away... He used for one day, when checking several times he gets different results(same finger with a few minutes interval each time). To me, this product is associated with waste of money and disappointed father.

No issue with this meter since Jan 2016 but failed today (blank screen - first thing in the morning!). Battery changed out once since 2015 and is not the cause of failure today. Results precision and accuracy is good being within 10% stated by Accu-Chek. Consecutive results similar.
My past other meters used have been Accu-Chek Integra (Oct 2008-July 2015) and True Results (March 2015- Feb 2022), each showing similar performance to te Accu-Chek Performa. Battery life was good with 1 change per meter).
Procedure discipline is the key. Variability only occurred in the early 4 years of my 11 years as a Type 2 Diabetic. Getting the process for blood sampling correct is paramount for relatively recent Diabetes customers.

I have been using this meter for almost nine years now and it works great. Several times I compared my fasting BGs with the results from lab, and they are all within the same 'interpretation' range. However I noticed that this meter tends to err on the low side, possibly to prevents user from being hypoglycemic. I almost have no complaint about this meter at all (or was I just lucky to get one device that isn't faulty like many other reviewers have here?). I just wish the strips could be cheaper.

I had the same experience just now I tested three times one after an other and every time there was different results. I bought this machine few days back it's like I burnt may money.

Frustrating to say least, chews up batteries something horrendous. Lucky to get 40 tests on new battery. No wonder it was free on promotion they can have it back. Not worth the hassle.

I had an inexplicably high reading one time and I thought it could be because I didn’t wash my hands properly, so I retested and my blood sugar level went to the normal ranges.

Today I decided to see if the problem could be the machine itself, so I did 3 readings in a row, all from the same pricked finger. I got 6.8, 7.2 & 8.1. I’m now stressing out because I have gestational diabetes and I’m not sure if all my readings throughout the past month have been inaccurate.

Purchased to replace another, what a mistake, batteries flat first test, new batteries in at my expense, flat after 5 tests. Called help line, still waiting. Sent them an email, they sent me one back to call helpline, after I put down step by step what the problem was. Call help line still waiting. Load of garbage.

The machine was working fine at first than after a few weeks, my readings hit really high and I went into panic mode! Not to mention, I'm pregnant! So before I had to do a mandatory blood glucose test (2 point test) at my local hospital, I tested before each blood draw and the first which was the fasting result was 5.6mmol/l (at 7am) and the second which was after breakfast was 6.4mmol/l (at 10am) - these were my accu check performs results!!

To my surprise, when I went for clinic the next day both my readings from the lab test were actually 5.1 mmol/l (for the 7am and 10am blood draws)

I don't trust the results from the meter! They cause unnecessary pressure!!

I totally agree with the previous reviews. When I was getting results that varied a lot, I decided to contact them but was told the results varying by 10% is acceptable. No wonder you get a cash back on the product. Otherwise it would not sell.

I have gestational diabetes and for the first 3 weeks the device was perfect, now it gives so many different readings which are unrealistically high and inaccurate. Today I had to do the test four times to get a proper reading. It went from 12.8 to 5.8 in less than two minutes...total rubbish and battery goes flat very quickly.

As testified by others here, the readings are wildly variable, so you can't trust it's accuracy. 6 months later the unit just kept generating errors for about two days before finally dying completely. It's now an expensive paperweight! DO NOT BUY!!

Accu-check performa is so inaccurate that I do not use it anymore. I bought this product with 50 strips on a promo sales in July 2017.I was surprised with the low result of the 1st test. I tried 2 more tests to check the repeatability but there is none. The 1st result was 101 mg/dl followed by 130 and 125. Several succeeding days using 3 strips showed also highly dubious results.

Inaccurate readings!!! Always had to test 3x with this machine to know apprx sugar level, thing is it shows 3 diff readings too!!! Not to mention their poor working strips that usually shows Error or "E-6". 7 out of 10 strips are not working, such a waste of money at $46 if you dont have NDSS card.

I have had no issues with reading accuracy. After reading some of the comments on this monitor I did 3 blood glucose on different fingers and each hand with a .5 discrepancy.

The only downfall would be that you cannot download details of your readings onto an app. that may be helpful to show BG trends over time.

I am another that has seen the unit go from being ok then the sugar levels go from 4.0 to 8.5 in 4 mins. Tonight it went from 6.0 to 16.9 in 4 mins. Can't trust the unit now. They were never this bad,

Wish I had of read the reviews in here as I've just ordered another unit. Chemistwarehouse has a sale on them. Could be why they are clearing them.

I get low blood sugar so need a reliable device to tell me when I need to eat something to get my sugar levels up.

What other sugar testing devices are out there please ?