I guess the old saying "You get what you pay for is true.
These cheaper glucose meters are terrible. This particular one barely works. It keeps giving you error messages even though your doing everything correctly.
Of course every time it does this you have to restick your finger. I threw mine in the trash. I ordered a different one. I googled best ten glucose monitors and bought the number one recommendation.

Love this meter requires very small blood sample accurate to my doctors glucose readings & easy to use. My crappy insurance company sent me another brand due to not covering the freestyle strips, the blood required was to much no user friendly & not accurate at all. The strips used in this machine are awesome little blood sample & they don't bend like the other cheap strips. I rather pay for these than use any other brand or machine.

Good product. Works well. I've had problems with other brands. I got tired of the cheap one my insurance wanted to switch me to. My arm looked like a pin cushion I had to poke it so many times to get a good sample. No worries with the Freestyle Lite.

Pros - The meter itself is readily available and cheap on Amazon. It works well and provides much more consistent readings that my old TRUE2Go, which occasionally gave me a wild result.

Cons - The brand name test strips are becoming harder to locate and the price has nearly doubled in the last few months when you can find them at all. As of this writing, I can't find a single listing for them on Amazon; currently I'm having to order them from Europe and then shipped to the US, a two week delay. This combination leads me to wonder if this model is being discontinued, so you run the risk of having to buy another meter in the near future if test strips are no longer available.

UPDATE: The model that has the lit up digits and that lights the strip up when you take your blood, is the FreeStyle Lite (It is available on Amazon although I just purchased it at Wa----rt for 18 bucks. This particular model here (that doesn't light anything up) is the FreeStyle Freedom Lite. If you don't need the extra lighting, this may be the better model because the battery lasts significantly longer.

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I ordered this specific meter because I wanted the model that lights up the digits and lights up the area where the strip touches the blood. Despite another customer answering a customer question to the contrary, this unit is NOT that one!

This one turned out to be the exact same model that I have been using for a few years now. I love this meter. It takes the tiniest drop of blood and it appears to be very accurate and consistent. It very closely matches what my doctor measures.

My wife's meter is the one that lights up and uses the same strips as this one. I just wish I knew what the model was so I could order it. (It doesn't say on the meter itself and neither does this one.)

I am on my second one of this meter since my first one developed a short after about 6 months of use. A new battery would die in about 3 days whether the meter was used or not. I've been on my second meter for a few years. I guess I'll take this third meter and stick it on a shelf as a backup in case my second one gets lost, destroyed, or dies.

I am very pleased with my meter. I have been diabetic and testing my blood for about 20 years. I have used a few different brands of meters and this is my favorite brand.