Greetings Forum Persons,

...my first-ever post on this fine forum. I've been lurking a bit, and already i've learned so much. Much thanks to those of you who've posted your experiences and lessons-learned.

I just bought today the Canadian QF. I thought, since it's got the uric acid, and otherwise is the same as the red-white-and-blue QF...why not? Am I missing something here? Why wouldn't everybody buy the Canadian version?

Next question refers to the heating pad. It seems to me that most of them i've seen...designed for camping, seem really, really hot. I've never thought to take a temp reading. But for those of you who've used QF, once heated (for about :10 seconds as the directions say), will the heating pad rubber-banded around the QF keep it at the correct body-temp range? Seems like it would overheat, but that's why i'm here. I don't know.

Because i can't afford to fail, i'm also getting an anti-adulterant detection kit to test the QF for specific grabity, Ph, and creatinine. Just another level of security, but i consider it cheap insurance. Anybody else done this?

Thanks all. Any advice appreciated.