We start and finish this whole process before the session is due to expire…so about 3 hours before the end of session, or sooner, we start the receiver going on the steps below. I think of the receiver as a magic restart wand that we pull out of the closet every so often.
Normally, it sits in the closet, turned off, between session restarts. We only pull the receiver out in order to do the restarts. To use this process, you do NOT have to be using a receiver on a regular basis.
You can just keep looping (if you are a looper) and watching BG data on your phone, Nightscout, and Follow apps the whole time. This is the easiest and preferred method because you don’t have to lose BG data during the restart process. The in-between process doesn’t work well, so pick a version and follow-through. Either start/finish Option 1 or 2 far enough in advance that you can complete the restart entirely…or wait until the session has ended and then begin a restart. However, do not end up in limbo…don’t start a restart process an hour before a session ends. I haven’t personally tested how Option 2 would work in that situation, but it should work just the same. I have used Option 1 to restart an ended sensor (basically just start on Step 4 of Option 1, but you don’t need to wait for a new BG to come in…because the session has expired). UPDATE: It used to be that I thought that you could not restart a sensor if it had expired, without using Option 3 or 4…turns out this is not true! If you accidentally did not remember to start and finish Options 1 or 2 before your sensor session expired, don’t fret. Use the phone to restart (without receiver).(Technically, Options 1 and 2 are so much easier than other options…that it’s almost not worth doing the others) There are several ways to restart a G6 sensor, listed below from easiest to hardest. “10-day hard stop on G6 sensors.” – love, Dexcomĭid that one thing alone stop you from considering the G6? Well, good news…you can actually restart the sensors (and the transmitter).