Poke yourself on the muscle on the inside of your knee and you’ll get the blood out if there easier.My shows a different error code, but I figured out with mine that you need a BIG drop of blood each time and the blood has to completely fill the strip or it will give you an error everytime. For mine, if the little strip where the blood goes doesn't completely fill up right away, it gives an error. And this only happens when I don't have a big blob of blood.
In the morning when I'm a bit dehydrated, I need to poke my finger sometimes 3 or 4 places to get a decent drop and then even than I squeeze my finger a bunch to mke the drop even bigger before putting it on the strip.
Until I learned this, I'd sometimes poke my finger 5-10 times and use 5-10 strips before getting it not to show the error msg
My fingers don’t bleed very well, when a buddy of mine brought over his meter to show me how to use it, he suggested the knee spot.
Works every time.