User's Manual

Checking Your Blood Glucose

4. Depress the release button. Do not lift up the lancing device;

instead, continue to hold it and gradually increase pressure

for several seconds (Figure 7-25).

5. While holding the lancing device on your test site, look

through the clear cap. The blood sample should be about the

size of a pinhead.

6. Lift the lancing device straight up; be careful not to smear the

blood sample on your test site.

Fill the blood glucose test strip with blood

1. Make sure that the strip is in the PDM and the PDM is pow-

ered on. If the PDM has powered off, take out the strip and

reinsert it (Figure 7-26), or simply press and hold the Power

button to turn on the PDM.

Figure 7-25

Avoid lancing areas with obvious veins or moles,

to avoid excess bleeding. Also avoid lancing

areas where tendons or bones stick out (for

example, hand bones and ankle bones).

Figure 7-26 Figure 7-27