Hi there I am Christel from Diabetes Strong
and today I'm going to show you how to insert a Dexcom sensor easy
and pain-free it's a doable seven-step process
I find most can do and if you include my step one
your sensor might even stay on longer so I've been living with type 1 diabetes
since 97 and I've been wearing a continuous
glucose monitor or a CGM since 2014 and I really think the CGM
technology has come far it's become way more accurate
lasts longer and the insertion process has definitely improved
so today I'm going to show you how to insert a Dexcom G6 sensor
if you wear a G5 don't worry about it I have another video on how to do that
and I'll leave the link down below so the Dexcom sensor is only FDA
approved for wear on the stomach I, however, prefer to wear it on my arm so
that's what I'm going to show you today so let me take you through those seven
steps to insert your Dexcom sensor so that you can get up and running fast
this is all you'll need you'll need an alcohol swap
a new sensor and your transmitter that's a little grey device
step one you really don't want to miss that get your alcohol swab out
and really clean the skin where you want to insert the sensor
okay so if that's on your stomach it's on your stomach
okay so it's important to clean the skin to make sure that you know any
body oils or you know dead skin cells or whatever gets removed
so just let that dry don't touch it just let it dry so while
you do that get out your sensor here we go so it comes in this box so
next step you simply take it out of the box
there you go put that away and then you want to
peel away the paper just like a band-aid look at this
peel away the paper
save the part with a little code on okay so this is sticky so don't touch that
so now you're going to place it on wherever you want your sensor
remember once you place it it's placed okay
so again I want it on my arm I place it I push a little bit
okay so right now there's no needle it's just
sticking to my skin look at that okay next step you want to remove the safety
latch so that little orange part so you can do that with one
finger just push that to the side go
and now that's gone now we're ready to actually insert the sensor
you do that by just pushing the big orange button
okay so let's do that there you go I just inserted my sensor
and I remove this serter so put that away so next up you want to smoothen out the
tape okay just make sure that it's actually
sticking to your skin there you go and as you saw no pain
and it's on there so last step you want to get out your transmitter I
always like to clean them first so I just clean this
with the alcohol swab as well so what you want to think about here is
look at this sensor so you see there's a pointy part and
there's sort of the fat around part so you want to start by
putting the pointy part into your sensor so when you look at your sensor so you see
this two little dots down here that's where we want to start so you're
gonna put the pointy end like this point the end in
okay there we go I put that in and then I simply click it in so listen
click there we go and we just inserted a Dexcom
G6 sensor there you go
next you want to start the sensor in either your
receiver or your app on your phone so simply open the Dexcom app and it
will say new sensor so click that next you can
either manually enter that code from that piece of paper that was on your
sensor remember I said save this because the
code is on here you either enter that manually or you
can simply take a photo with your phone it will walk you
through how to start the sensor you just click
yes and click start sensor and you'll get that blue circle that'll
tell you that the two hour warm-up has started your sensor will need to
warm up for two hours which basically means that you
won't get any readings for those first two hours it's simply calibrating
you don't need to enter any finger sticks
or anything just wait it out after the two hours you'll start receiving your
blood sugar numbers either on your phone on your receiver on your pump or
whatever you set it to I hope you enjoy your Dexcom sensor and
check out my video on how to easily remove it
once a 10 day period is up thank you so much for watching