High hemoglobin

[Cylon357]

Finger stick and a meter. Kind of like using a glucometer but checking Hgb levels

That seems less accurate than sending to the lab? That would explain the different readings.

[almostgone]

That seems less accurate than sending to the lab? That would explain the different readings.

Yes sir, it's a quick and dirty. Probably accurate enough for their purposes, but not quite as good as what you get with a CBC. I guess they're mainly screening for anemia because I've never been turned away for high Hgb.

My wife had a similar experience with her newest glucometer. She checked it with glucometer just before they pulled for serum glucose. She had almost a 20 mg/dL difference between her new glucometer and test strips vs. the glucose from her labs.