90 days is not the life of the transmitter.
90 days is the warranty period of the transmitter if first activated within five months of shipping or whatever the precise wording is on the warranty.
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You should never admit to Dexcom that you have an extra transmitter or you extend their lives. Although they may be using the term “warranty” in relation to the transmitter, it will be three months after you received your last transmitter. I don’t think that they will be looking at your transmitter ID and that could get me in trouble because I am not using the most recently received transmitter. I think it will purely be based on when they last shipped you a transmitter. I plan to keep using my G5 system for a while to build up a stash of G6 sensors before switching over. Medicare believes that you should be almost completely out of supplies before you should be shipped any new ones. That’s not safe IMO because suppliers and shippers mess things up all of the time. I do not sell or donate supplies purchased by Medicare but I work hard to have a cushion because my diabetes doesn’t go on vacation when I run out of supplies.
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I’m thinking along the same lines, but I’ll give the first g6 that hits my doorstep a fair trial. 
Call me crazy but I think any diabetic on Medicare, other insurance, or no insurance, should always try to maintain a many months-long stash of all of the essentials such as (if pumping) sets and reservoirs, insulin (no brainer–if low on cash stop eating out or other non-essentials to life), back up pens or syringes for pumpers, STRIPS!, glucagon (yes, it will work after the expiration date). The bigger my stash, the better I sleep.
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I am truly hoping by the time they start replacing the G5 that they worked all the bugs out of the G6’s
What bugs do you think there are?
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This is a typical response from somebody that has never used the product in the first place. The only issue I can think of, is the adhesive. Dexcom seem to have fixed this on the last few boxes of sensors I’ve received.
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Problems getting good readings on some patients with low BM is another “bug, if you will”, compared to the more reliable readings using the g5 with folks of varying BMI. ie, if it works for you and your BMI is low, that doesn’t mean that there havent been a lot of reports from others, AND an admission by Dexcom of the issue.
It’s not a bug until one has tried it out and sees if the system doesn’t work for them. There’s no point in hyperbolizing something until you have actually used it.
There is always the possibility we Medicare patients never get to try G6 as the smaller, cheaper G7 is due for release in about 12 months.
Who knows? Dexcom locking out Medicare patients from the G6 should have been a red flag. There’s so many different stories floating around that nobody knows the real truth. I don’t buy the story about supply issues. Dexcom has had no problem supplying patients on every other insurance plan. Why Medicare patients get treated like third class citizens, is beyond me.
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So is it spike everyone uses to extend their sensors and transmitters for an iphone? I believe I have to get the ap through their website, not by phone ap?
My transmitter will be up and I wanted to try to extend it. The ap/program was down last time my transmitter was up.
This might be more important soon, I caught someone saying on one of the sites that in new Dexcom transmitters there might be a safeguard to not be able to extend the sensors anymore. I like wearing my sensors as they become really more precise as time goes on. And I don’t have to hassle switching them out. I have no idea if it’s true or ???
there is a blog that details exactly how to extend the G6 using even the most recent version of the transmitters. It is a super-detailed blog post on the subject.
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Here it is!!! The LATEST on the subject: Restarting Dexcom G6 sensors – Updated – See My CGM
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A short time before Dexcom reached its announced G6 release to Medicare patients slated for April, 2019, it extended its target to the 4th quarter or Q4 of 2019. The 4th quarter starts on October 1 and ends on December 31.
The October reference by the Dexcom rep in the original post may simply be an optimistic characterization of Q4. I’ll be happy to see Dexcom delivery to Medicare patients in October but will realistically manage my expectation for December 31 of this year.
It will probably be after the new year. Dexcom most likely wants to have all their Medicare patients prescription renewals and insurance verifications done at the same time.
Very cool. Every iteration’s size shrinks by half.
They can shrink it by whatever they want, but I need better or equal accuracy, better or equal adhesion, and better or equal signal-transmission distance.
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to my eyes, the 7 looks a lot littler than 1/2 the size of the 6.
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