# Dexcom: what happens if you don't calibrate?

**URL:** <https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/dexcom-what-happens-if-you-dont-calibrate/2125>\
**Category:** C/GM\
**Tags:** dexcom\
**Created:** [September 22, 2017, 8:31pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/dexcom-what-happens-if-you-dont-calibrate/2125 "2017-09-22T20:31:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![Chris](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forum.fudiabetes.org/chris/32/382_2.png) [@Chris](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/Chris)\
**Post date:** [September 22, 2017, 8:33pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/dexcom-what-happens-if-you-dont-calibrate/2125/2 "2017-09-22T20:33:37Z")

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> [@Dexcom G5 question about ? ? ? on receiver](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/dexcom-g5-question-about-on-receiver/2119/30):
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> y first 2 G5’s are so accurate, I’m almost afraid to calibrate .

Then don’t, we frequently go 3-4 days between calibrations after the first day or two. We are getting very good results from the Dexcom system. Recently, we stopped trying to get the third week out of them, and are replacing all of them after 14 days. Due to lots of dropout issues in the 3rd week.

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