Easy drum removal and replacement as well. The cartridge system is a design marvel. These cartridges eliminate the hurt and bother of loading.

The fastclix has a barrel shaped magazine with 6 lancets per magazine. Saves loading individual lancet each morning. Also comes with a case that holds thelancet device, meter and box of test strips.

The six-lancet drum is convenient and prevents fumbling. Sometimes it takes a bit of coercing to get the blood flowing.

The instructions for the lancing device are wrong, written for a different device than what came with the device! Terrible, frustrating to the user. There were no instructions and coud'nt figure out how to use them.

After trying to wrap our head around how to use this, ended up poking finger manually with a simple lancet needle. The machine keeps saying insufficient blood.

The expiration date is well into the future and the packaging was in good shape.