The Fastclix lancet uses a drum/cassette containing six lancets. You set the depth to what suits you - I use the most shallow depth.
You put the lower end against your finger (after washing hand) and press the plunger on top.
Squeeze the finger to get a decent size blob of blood.
The end of the test strip (inserted into meter) is then touched to the blood and absorbs it, and the meter gives your reading after a second or two.
I use the Accu Chek Mobile glucose meter (as well as the TEE2) which has a cassette containing 50 test strips - a continuous roll rather than individual strips.
As for re-using lancets, the manufacturers recommend using a lancet only once, but many people re-use the same lancet many times. You can't sterilise the Fastclix lancets as they are enclosed in the drum. I re-use mine at least 50 times, I only change the lancet when I change the test strip cassette usually. Sometimes I forget and use it up to 100 times, or until it starts to feel blunt.
This video shows how to use a blood glucose meter:
(despite promising myself I'll eventually write a few, based on health experiences and how to cope with them, because there's so much confusion out there... and because when I had GB problems, the nutritional advice from the medics was so vast: 'try to avoid fat'. That was it!!!! No diet sheet. Nothing. A few books have appeared since - seems there was an epidemic of gallbladder disease around the time I was ill and a few people had similar ideas. I'm always grateful when people try to put out well written and well researched books, because it's not necessarily an easy process. A lot less trouble to not bother... But it's a little dismaying to hear that some of the apparently more researched information might not be accurate (if I've understood correctly).
