i use accuchek aviva glucometer. with correct strips it gives error message.need advice?

Check your batteries!!! Most drugstores carry all the batteries needed for glucometers of all makers.

If this is a new meter, it may have been sitting on the shelf for a while and the batteries got old.

If you have had the meter for more than a year, get new ones.

I use the daylight savings dates for battery changing! Pick whether you want fall or spring time change and go to drug store on that day for new batteries.

Also check that you are supplying sufficient drop of blood to the strip!! If it doesn't have enough blood it cannot read it. So gives error message.

Call the 1-800 number on the back of the meter and tell them the meter is malfunctioning. In most cases they will overnight a new meter with return pack for old meter. They, most of them, will also overnight new batteries!

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call the 1-800-number on the back of the meter. there was a recall of Accu-check avivas early this year/late last year. Even if it's not part of the recal they will probably send you a new one once you describe what it's doing. At the very least they'll send you a new battery. They're customer service is GREAT. I called in for a battery issue back in July. My son uses the Accu-check aviva also. They not only sent me a battery but they sent me an additional meter so I can have a spare just in case. They evern overnighted it. They want you to keep using they're products so they're very accomodating.

In addition to low battery, bad strips, and the other reasons mentioned above, I get error messages when the meter is too cold in the winter or too hot in the summer. The instruction book tells the temperature range, and you can inadvertently get outside the range. In the winter, if you keep the meter near an open window, or keep it in the car in the summer, the meter may not work.

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Agree with all the others. Might also want to check test strips are still in date and code on test strip bottle matches code on machine when turned on

The instructions should give you a telephone number for the manufacturer who should have a helpline. Give them a call.

Hi,

Have you calibrated your tester with the test strip you Should have?

You don`t say what Tester you are using, get in touch if you want maybe I can help you more.

Good Luck....

There can be various reasons. One low battery but then it should show low battery. Other reason is insufficient blood sample.

if you don't get your blood on it just right it will do that