Insert The Blood Glucose Test Strip - Insulet OmniPod User Manual

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Checking Your Blood Glucose
5. The lancing device offers four different depth settings. Level 1
is the shallowest depth; level 4 is the deepest. Move the dial
to the desired setting as shown in the depth indicator win-
dow (Figure 7-15). We recommend that you start at level 2 for
most sites except the finger.
To lance your finger, we recommend that you start at level 1,
the shallowest. Be sure to use the gray cap.
Figure 7-15
6. Pull out the dark gray cocking handle until it clicks (Figure
7-16). (You may have already cocked the handle in step 2. This
is okay.)
You are now ready to perform a blood glucose test.
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Figure 7-16
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Insert the blood glucose test strip

Insert a new blood glucose test strip into the test strip port until it
stops. The test strip port is at the bottom of the PDM.
Insert only the top end of the strip into the test strip port, with
the dark colored rectangle going into the meter (Figure 7-17 and
Figure 7-18).
Figure 7-17
Top
Bottom
If you do not start the test within 2 minutes, the PDM
powers off. To restart the PDM, take out the unused strip
and reinsert it, or simply press the Power button to turn
on the PDM.
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Figure 7-18
Power/Backlight