My G6 Dexcom is asking to be calibrated daily. Why? Will this go on for 10 days?

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For some unknown (to me) reason, my current Dexcom G6 is asking for daily calibration. What a pain. Did I do something wrong in the insertion? What was different for me this time was that I inserted later in the evening, so that the sensor wasn’t in touch with the phone during most of the warmup period. Oh, also, I started the session on the phone as well as on the pump at the same time, rather than just doing the phone. It’s a new transmitter.

So I guess there were a lot of abnormal things about the start of this session. What is causing the call for calibration? Is there anything I can do to make it stop?

Thanks for your consideration.

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Did you by chance press “no code” when you were starting your session? That mode requires daily calibrations.

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As @CatLady suggested, you probably hit “no code” by mistake.

Making it stop asking for calibrations is pretty easy. You just do a sensor restart.

Hit stop sensor, remove the sensor transmitter for 15 minutes, and then reinsert it and restart the sensor and enter the code.

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Thanks. that’s easy enough to do. (fwiw I am pretty sure I put the code in, although we all make mistakes …).

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Uh…sorry!

If you remove the sensor, it’s pretty much done!

I meant remove the transmitter! Not the sensor!

Sorry for saying it incorrectly!

:man_facepalming:

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I knew what you meant. One of the tricks that I learned thanks to this board was how to reset the session, so that was what I did. It’s working w/o calibration now. So thanks for the tip.

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