- Cholester Test - 2 Count
- Easy Accurate
- Results in minutes
Product Description
A First Check at 50 Product. FDA cleared. Fast, Accurate, Simple. The same test used by doctors worldwide. Results in 12 minutes. As accurate as laboratory tests. Early detection is key. First Check Home Cholesterol test provides information about your total cholesterol level in as little as 12 minutes. Accurately and quickly test your cholesterol level. Know your level. Early Detection: High cholesterol is one of the main risk factors for Coronary Heart Disease. co... More >>
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This gives you total cholesterol, you need to get your total cholesterol, LDL, HDL & Triglycerides. If you don’t understand why, then you should have your test done at your doctor’s office.
A little knowledge is dangerous; a little information and no knowledge is stupid.
Rating: 2 / 5
My cholesterol was 288, so I made changes in my diet and started to monitor it dropping using this test every 3 months for an entire year- I watched my cholesterol drop to 220, then 200, then 180, then 140. Wow, I was really impressed until I read the reviews here that this test is inaccurate so I decided to go back to my doctor to be rechecked. Well, my actual cholesterol is 225, nearly 90 points higher than this test is saying! My advice would be don’t buy this test or you may be fooling yourself into a false sense of security.
Rating: 1 / 5
Bottom line: don’t waste your time and money.
The instructions require you to squeeze at least 5-6 drops out of your finger. Even before I stabbed myself, I couldn’t believe that that was even possible. After two tries, I have decided that it really cannot be done.
Reading the result is somewhat of a guessing game because after the blood has soaked into the test strip, it says to “Read the scale on the test by finding the very tip of the blue or purple colored line, regardless of how faint the line may be.” Granted, it doesn’t seem to matter too much if you’re off by a few lines in your reading because at least it will put you in the right ballpark. This is assuming that the test is accurate to begin with, which is something that the other reviewers seem to have evidence against.
I haven’t gotten a real cholesterol test before so I don’t know how accurate this is. My result came back in the “desirable” level so we will see if this was anywhere close to accurate once I get a real test. Keep in mind though that I was unable to follow the instructions to the letter because I simply could not get enough blood to get to the “fill level” of the blood well.
If you bought this at the store and haven’t opened it yet, I highly suggest returning it. I certainly wish I had come here before I opened the box.
Rating: 1 / 5
I bought this test kit to keep track of total cholesterol, but never got a chance to evaluate the results because the lancette device provided didn’t provide enough blood (two tries) even though I followed the instructions to the letter.
Rating: 1 / 5
I tried the version of this kit that included two test kits: one for total cholesterol and one for HDL (it cost about $25 at a Rite-Aid). I followed the instructions to the letter for the total cholesterol count. I was so excited about the low total cholesterol number it gave me! I began thinking new diet was paying off! The following week I had a real test performed at a doctors office and found that the reading given by this kit was about 80 points too low. Bottom line: don’t waste your money.
Rating: 1 / 5