Diabetes monitor recommendations please

[Megan70]

DH has just recently been diagnosed with Type 2 Diabetes. Nurse advised that if we are interested in checking his blood sugar levels we could buy Wavesense monitor in the pharmacy (we have to pay for it). The reasons were that it is the one they use (=accurate) and another important reason, she said is the price of the strips, Wavesense strips seem to be quite cheap.
I just went to the pharmacy next to the GP to ask and the pharmacist told me that they don't stock monitors and it should be easier to buy online. I have been checking in the near pharmacies, (boots, superdrug, lloyds, argos) and I realised that if I buy Wavesense monitor actually none of them stock the strips to buy.
I have been researching all the afternoon, as we are new to this I have no clue about monitors and strips. If you use one, I would really appreciate your input; which one do you use, where do you buy (monitor and strips), are the strips "particularly" cheap/expensive?. Thank you so much in advance

Blood sugar strips are very expensive to buy in pharmacies, although the monitors are relatively cheap. Strips mostly £20 upwards.

I'm Type 2 and use a company online homehealth-uk.com . They have starter kits ~ monitor, case, strips and lancets for roughly £10 .Buying strips on their own is £7.70 for 50 [last time I bought, couple of months ago] . I use their GlucoNavii monitor and strips.

They also do Codefree but the Navii is the updated version.

I've been Type 2 for 20 years and been using this Company for about five years, never had a problem.

A good site for your DH to join is diabetes.co.uk . Tons of information plus a forum where he can ask questions, always loads of helpful people.

The Freestyle lite strips are easy to use, they need a lot less blood imo than the Accu chek ones.

They sell several different models in boots

I don't think OP wanted any answers.

@butterpuffed Thank you so much for all your advice. When I placed the message and checked the next day and it didn't get any answer I thought I posted it in "the wrong place". I spent the day searching and I found a forum discussing glucose meters so I posted there and I found some help. But definitely your answer was most helpful. In fact, I order the one you recommended and I found out that there are also discount codes for when you buy more strips - "navii5" and "navii10" will give you 20% off purchases of 5 packs of strips and 25% off 10 packs of strips respectively, in the same website you told me, so I hope that is also helpful to you.xx

@Megan70 . Pleased to hear back from you and that the information was helpful. It's all a bit of a minefield when you've just been diagnosed.

Hope your DH is doing well. 😊