You are supposed to only wear it 10 days, but I find it very accurate to wear it as long as possible until it goes wacky. That’s usually about 26 days for me, the longest being 38 days.
But it’s a hack people have figured it out. Dexcom keeps trying to stop it but so far someone keeps figuring out how to keep doing it. It can be really easy but it depends on your transmitter number. The latest transmitters require you to take out the transmiiter for at least 30 minutes and then restarting.
Easy way with older transmitters, doesn’t work a lot now though
Newer method working well.
I don’t use an overpatch, they didn’t work well for me, they came off right away. And once I used the Skin Tac it worked so well there was no need to use or try to use an overpatch.
This is what I do
- Unpeel white paper from sensor
- Apply Skin Tac all over the adhesive on the sensor making sure to get to the edges, but avoid the middle area that’s outlined that has the filament
- Put the sensor loader on the skin gently without pushing on it, hit the button without pushing into skin. If you push it will crumple the adhesive
- Let it set just a little bit to make sure it is adhering to skin
- Run your finger on top of the adhesive to make sure it is nice and flat and adhering to your skin
- If you applied a lot of Skin Tac you might want to hold it on for a few seconds to make sure it’s drying and adhering okay
- once the adhesive is nicely dry insert the transmitter
Then I touch up when it starts to peel up under the edges with a Q tip and more Skin Tac, making sure I try to only put the extra Skin Tac under the edges