hey gang this is Christel from Diabetes Strong as you might know I wear
a continuous glucose monitor and it's a Dexcom G6 I wear it here on my arm
that is my preferred placement that's not what is FDA approved for it's
FDA approved for the stomach however this is where I prefer to wear it
so the Dexcom G6 has a 10 day wear time that means that after 10 days I'll
usually just take it off and I'll replace it with new
sensor however I do know that a lot of people choose to
restart their sensor so Dexcom says you can't do that
but you can it's not FDA approved either it's not recommended
you do increase the risk of infections
however a lot of people do choose to restart this sensor for whatever reason
maybe they run out of sensors maybe they can't
afford a new sensor this is expensive equipment right or for
whatever other reason I've never tried to restart mine
I do want to try it so let's do that together
so for what I've been you know reading up on there are a few steps to this
first step is to pop up the transmitter that's a grey part pop that
out of the sensor save that and then I've read everything from 15 to
30 minutes you wait and then you pop it back in and
then you simply restart the sensor as if you had you know put in a new sensor
you can do two ways you can either use the original code
your sensor code from when you started that sensor or you can try without
a code I did not save my sensor code from when I started it 10 days ago so
I'll be trying to do it without a code let's try it
so I was reading up on how to get the transmitter out of the sensor because
it's stuck in there right so the few different ideas I found
online was to use a credit card or a plastic card of some sort I don't really
want to use a credit card because well I don't want
to break my credit card the other one was to use a test strip
if you have one of these larger older test strips you can use that to
pry the sensor out of the transmitter out of the sensor
so let me move over so I'm just going to place my arm on my shoulder and then I'm
supposed to see if you can get the
card in I'm sure this is easier if you actually wear the
device on your stomach
I'm gonna try and use the camera as a mirror
I'm not being very successful I did see other people struggle with
this and said that this was hard there we go got it in
might be easy up against the mirror
because
where it went and went flying okay so the credit card method clearly works
alrighty so you see the sensor is still there
I have a little bit of a tape around here I'll wait 15 minutes I think then
I'll pop it back in
It's been 15 minutes I set the alarm on my phone
let's reattach the transmitter so just like you would
pop that one in okay it is now attached and then I get out my phone
so next thing it's going to ask you for code or no code
given I didn't save my code I'm going to choose no code
and then it's going to take you through all the usual steps so I'm just going to
press next now it says no sensor code
if I want to calibrate I'm going to go no code again
it's going to ask me to start sensor and there we go now we have the warm-up
so in the next two hours I guess I'm gonna
know whether or not this trick actually worked
so again all I did was pop back in the same transmitter
start it as if it was a new sensor and I just choose chose no code if you still
have the code from your from the sensor when you put it in just
type in that but I'll need to actually calibrate the sensor
once it started so fingers crossed what do you know that worked so it's
been two hours and the Dexcom app just came up and told
me that it was ready it was warmed up ready to calibrate so
it's asking for blood sugar readings so I just manufactured my blood sugar
then the first one is to simply hit the little calibrate
the blood drop up in the corner enter that blood sugar so I did
that and then it comes in and tells you well
it wants another blood sugar reading after 15 minutes
so 15 minutes I'm gonna enter my second blood sugar reading
and then I should be good to go but let's see over the next 12-24 hours how
accurate it actually is but so far so good so that didn't work
I calibrated it twice and it didn't accept that so now it's asked me to
calibrate again in 15 minutes I'm gonna try that let's see
somewhat to my surprise it ended up working
so I ultimately ended up having to calibrate the sensor five
times it kept asking for new calibration and the readings wouldn't stick
but after five calibrations that was over an hour and fifteen minutes
it finally stuck and i've been getting readings for the last 12 hours
and as you can see here it's fairly accurate so
it works all in all it's fairly simple process right
you once the sensor is expired you pop out the transmitter
wait 15 minutes or longer I waited 15 pop it back in restart the sensor
with or without code if it's without code like I did
just enter calibrations enter blood sugar readings until
it sticks and there we go it's up and running again
hope you enjoyed this video thank you so much for watching