User Manual

Checking Your Blood Glucose
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2. If after 5 seconds the PDM does not display “Checking,” the
sam
ple may be too small. If needed, add more blood to the
same edge of the strip for up to 60 seconds from the time of
the first application.
The strip port light turns off when the blood sample is
accepted.The reading is complete when you hear 2 beeps (if
BG sound is turned On) and the PDM shows your reading on
the screen (Figure 7-30).
The time the test takes depends on your blood glucose level.
The higher your glucose level, the longer it takes to get a
result.
3. To mark the result as a pre- or post-meal test, to indicate a
level of exercise or to indicate other situations connected to
this blood glucose reading, press Tag. Then:
a. Use the Up/Down Controller buttons to select a tag,
then press Select (Figure 7-31 on the next page).You can
select a second tag for the reading in the same way.
To learn how to manage your list of tags and to add
custom tags, see ”Manage the blood glucose tags list” in
Chapter 6, Using the Personal Diabetes Manager.
b. Press OK to return to the reading screen (Figure 7-30),
then press Next.
4. If you do not want to mark the test, press Next instead of Tag.
5. Remove the test strip. If the strip-port light was turned on, it
now turns off.
Figure 7-29
Figure 7-30
If the suggested bolus calculator feature is turned Off,
the Bolus soft key appears instead of Next.