How To Remove Dexcom Transmitter From Sensor

Final Updated: October 14, 2022

How to Change your Dexcom G6 Sensor and Start a New Session

When irresolute a sensor, follow the prompts shown on your display device in society. Insert your sensor or transmitter when you are prompted to exercise then on your brandish device.

Ending Your Sensor Session

How to end a sensor session early:

Go to the principal carte of the Dexcom G6 app, gyre to the bottom of the menu, select "Stop Sensor", and select "Yep". After catastrophe the session, y'all volition be taken to the home screen, where you will encounter a "New Sensor" option. Please follow the on-screen steps once you lot select "New Sensor". If yous need to terminate your sensor session early, such equally for procedures where yous tin't article of clothing the sensor, delight follow the above steps.

How to end a sensor session:

On the tenth day of your sensor session, you will receive a notification that your session is about to cease. Y'all will receive these notifications 24 hours, 6 hours, 2 hours, and xxx minutes prior to the official terminate of the sensor session. The session volition end on its own to the exact hour and minute that the start sensor selection was selected 10 days prior.

How to remove a sensor:

When you remove your Dexcom G6 sensor, your transmitter volition likewise come up off. Remember that your transmitter is reusable; don't throw it away until its battery has died. I transmitter has a battery life of 90 days, so you can use the same transmitter over a number of sensor sessions. You will receive notifications as the transmitter nears the end of its battery life.

Follow these steps to remove a sensor:

Step 1: Pull sensor patch off like a Rough-and-tumble. The transmitter, holder, and sensor all come off with the patch.

Stride 2: Don't remove the transmitter from the holder until you lot've peeled the patch off of your peel. Grasp the wide, rounded edge of the holder. Bend holder edge down to intermission it and release the transmitter.

Step 3: Pull transmitter direct out.

Step 4: Keep transmitter to use with next sensor.

Step 5: Throw away patch, with the holder and sensor attached, post-obit your local guidelines for disposal of blood-contacting components.

Finished!

Offset a New Dexcom G6 Sensor Session

Remove the Dexcom G6 sensor from your body and the transmitter from the transmitter holder and you're ready to get-go a new sensor session. Yous won't accept to pair your transmitter to your display device; the transmitter will remain paired until the end of its battery life. However, you will demand to enter a new sensor code, because the code is specific to each sensor.

Click here to view the Dexcom G6 User Guide for total instructions and information on how to change your Dexcom G6 sensor and kickoff a new session.

*To view a list of uniform smart devices, visit dexcom.com/compatibility

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