Free G6 transmitters

This notice is for U.S. Veterans only. I have received four G6 Transmeters. They expire in June 2025. I can not start one of these until May of 25 so it would fail and Dexcom’s already told me they would not cover replacing one if it failed durning expiration.
The V.A . Told me to dispose of the as the shipping company or them could not take them back.

For what it’s worth, I’ve used a transmitter a year or so past the printed expiration date and it worked fine for the full three months. Not to discourage you in any way from your generosity, but just so no one reading your post thinks that a transmitter needs to be discarded because it’s expired.
(This has to do with the expiration date on the box, not the 99 day countdown that starts once a transmitter is used.)

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I can only go by what I was told by Dexcom. If I had a failure of the Tx after the printed expiration date. That would not replace it no matter how long I had worn it.

Have you had many failures? While very rare, I have had a couple of sensor failures over the years, but never a transmitter failure.

I think Brad P is looking for his wife. I’ll text him.
Wait - transmitters? That’s strange. They must have made a real mistake.

Jim actual yes. I’ve had two tx’s failures Both started with “Signal Loss “ messages The 1st. I had both receiver and phone on my person. And it stayed in “signal loss” for six hours.
The second a year later gave the same symptoms. I’m not faulting Dexcom they were straight forward in replacing them as they hadn’t gone past their expire date.
In my present case these four Tx’s were all the same lot # and same expiration date,
Granted I might get through one of them but not all four as they expire in June.
In the 12 yrs I’ve been on Dexcom G4 thru G6 I have NEVER been shipped 4 Tx.s at a time. In my mind set I really think the supplier to the V.A. was just getting them out of their inventory.

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Hi all. I know this is well intentioned but for legal reasons our Terms of Service forbid sale or exchange of prescription items through the forum, so I need to close this thread. No bad reflection on any participants.