Dexcom G6 Reviews

When DexcomG6 is actually working, it continually sends out alerts for low and high blood sugars without taking into consideration that changes to the body take time. Alerts happen every few minutes even after correcting the situation. This is particularly fun in the middle of the night when the alerts are so loud (and btw cannot have the volume adjusted) that it wakes everyone in the household. And as briefly mentioned at the beginning of the review, this happens only when DexcomG6 is actually working. VERY, VERY FREQUENTLY DexcomG6 loses the signal and yet more alerts came fast and furious. This is definitely a Dexcom app issue since any other apps on the phone that utilize Bluetooth function flawlessly during these signal loss events. And to further prove it’s an app issue the supplied little black receiver rarely loses signal. It functions fine. Now let’s talk about the messages that come stating that Dexcom is performing testing on DexcomG6 and you won’t receive readings! Or even better a message that DexcomG6 has just inexplicably stopped working. No reason or suggestions…just that it stopped. Thank you manufacturers of Dexcom G6 for subjecting the public to a P.O.S. system that you clearly know doesn’t work (hence all the outages and messages regarding testing).

After the first alert, the alert volume defaults to the highest volume. This is ABSOLUTELY frustrating, especially while sleeping or in the office. I called Dexcom and they said it’s a bug in DexcomG6 , NOT USER ERROR, and told me to tell the developer. Aren’t they the developers? Anyways, please... for the love of all things, fix this. It’s been happening for about a year and I’m losing sleep. iPhone 6s. Also, I second what someone else recently said about needing to snooze high alerts. If you’re sleeping and you take insulin for a high, your blood sugar is NOT going to come down in 5 min or 10 min, but low and behold you keep getting alerts every five minutes anyways. You need to be able to snooze these for at least 30 min! We have to instead go into DexcomG6 and CHANGE the high alert settings in the middle of the night because you don’t have a snooze button for a common sense issue.

*TO DEXCOM- I noticed that you reply to everyone asking them to contact tech support to tell them about the issue. I DID THAT AND WAS TOLD TO COME HERE AND WRITE A REVIEW BECAUSE THEY SAID THEY COULDN'T DO ANYTHING AND IT’S NOT USER ERROR. I’m not contacting your tech support again. You know what problem I’m having. Why don’t you contact the people who work on updating DexcomG6 ? You work together - you’ve gotta figure it out. Unbelievable.

I don’t know if it’s the sensor and system itself or if DexcomG6 is just trash, but it seems to always lose signal! Both my daughter and I use dexcom and between the two of us, every hour one of our systems are going off that signal is lost. It does this especially at night which is why we got it... To know about low blood sugar at night. Problem is, it loses signal and doesn’t find signal for hours! Last night my blood sugar went horribly low, but did my dexcom go off? No, it was busy saying signal lost and looking at the chart between midnight and 7am there’s no data at all... This is a problem both my daughter and I have. It has this problem all the time! Also every day there’s gaps of no data from it not working and this is for both of us. DexcomG6 says on occasion that the latest ios isn’t fully supported.. I don’t know if that’s the cause, but my iOS hasn’t changed since getting the sensor which was over a month ago, plenty of time to update DexcomG6 if that’s truly the problem! It’s so bad my daughter doesn’t even want to wear it because she still has to check her blood sugar by finger because it says signal lost... 🙄😑😒 I just went a looked, out of 31 days, 19 have gaps of no data. 19 out of 31! That’s more than half! And that’s just on mine, my daughter’s is the same or worse! Right now while writing this, my daughter’s says signal lost... and hasn’t had any data for an hour and a half...

I’ve only been using DexcomG6 for a few days now, and it seems to lose connection with my transmitter. I keep my phone on or close to me almost always and I have lost connection with the transmitter. It’s happened the past two nights while I was sleeping for 4 1/2 hours (phone was next to the bed charging), and in the middle of the day (it’s been going on 20 minutes now) and there’s no rhyme or reason as to why this is happening. Also I don’t get notifications on my phone when this happens (even with my notifications on with the sound on).
(I’m using a G6 unit with the IPhone XR iOS 13.2.3 if that makes a difference as to my set up with both my phone and Apple Watch up to date on the software). If these keeps up, I’ll probably edit my review to something lower, and delete DexcomG6 . We’ll see how this is going in a week. I’m hoping they fix the issues with DexcomG6 being used with this most recent update of iOS.

Edit: (15 days later). Good luck with DexcomG6. Still junk. I’ve tried contacting customer support and they don’t know their heads from their elbows. And when I have spoken to someone the first person made it clear updating DexcomG6 to work with the newer iOS is not a priority but the G7 is then blew me off, and the second person couldn’t figure anything out if it wasn’t on their script to follow to help a person out.
Save yourself some time. Don’t use a Dexcom product, and sure as hell don’t waste your time with DexcomG6.

Update: July 30, 2020. Alerts STILL not working. Highs blare top volume night and day, though occasionally they sound at the volume the phone is set to. LOWS DONT ALERT. EVEN URGENT LOWS!!! NO SOUND! Even though the volume is up and the phone is not silenced, the lows don’t sound and the highs blare loudly, causing everyone in the room to stare at me and jump as it goes off. FIX THIS. Deleting DexcomG6 and trying-installing, logging out and logging back on DOES NOT HELP. I’ve had URGENT LOWS with NO ALERTS. I depend on DexcomG6 for my life. As a single parent, DexcomG6 needs to do its job to help me be safe so I can be there for my kids. This faulty app will kill me Or someone else if you don’t get it sorted.

I love the idea of DexcomG6, but I’m afraid I will need to switch back to an older version of the dexcom with a receiver. The alerts are sounding only part of the time, and DexcomG6 says the alarms are turned off even though I have repeatedly checked to be sure they are on. Sometimes it will alert, sometimes it doesn’t. I just started with the g6, so I’m currently using my g4 with receiver alongside of it to check accuracy. Luckily I was wearing the g4 as well, because the g6 app didn’t alert me of a bad low during the night (even though it recorded it, it didn’t sound), and my trusty g4 receiver alerted me and woke me up. Please fix this!

The latest update (1.4.0) of DexcomG6 sends me alerts even though I have them set to vibrate. The alert, however, is the default iOS notification sound and it’s only sounding when my glucose is high. I’ve already spoken with tech support and, laughably, they weren’t even aware that the product team released this version when I called them so they were unable to get a straight answer to me besides restarting my phone and uninstalling/reinstalling DexcomG6 . And surprise that didn’t work. I went through all my settings within DexcomG6 and they’re just as I’ve had them before this push: vibrate. So now I have DexcomG6 alerting me with the default iOS notification when my glucose is high.

In addition to this the UI is poorly designed. So much wasted potential to show more data. Dexcom’s design and engineering team should look at how Sugarmate, Nightscout, xDrip, and Spike app show and handle data...not some white screen with a big circle and a (TINY!!!) graph. Also, there is a huge design discrepancy between DexcomG6 (let’s be honest all their apps) and the Follow app (Follow seems like it hasn’t been updated in 5 years UI wise).

And you know what, Dexcom is probably gonna reply to this and ask me to contact them with my concerns. Well, I’ve done that, many times, and nothing has been done or changed since I’ve expressed it to them since the G5 app. 🤷🏻‍♀️

I’ve always had the issue where I lose connection a lot but was willing to deal with that. For a long time now maybe since I’ve updated DexcomG6 ?? I don’t get any notifications yes I have them on! In DexcomG6 and in my regular phone settings. I’ve changed nothing and use to get them. This is a big problem as I have been running high without even knowing until I went into it and checked. I’m sitting here at 5 am trying to figure out what the issue is cause I’m not getting notifications. Not on my lock screen or when I’m in a diff app and I have those turned on to do so nothing at all!! That’s just not fricken good!!!! I’m so irritated. It also took me over a month to get more G6 supplies It’s usually one automatic with my mail but didn’t this time and I had to call several times when they said they’d follow up with me, with someone higher up cause it was something in the system. Or they just told me it was confirmed to have shipped. I went without my G6 for right around a month!! My sensors also randomly can’t find connections and then fail and make me replace them when it’s usually a new insertion so I basically am wasting them too! I need this for my health to help me! I’m not feeling like this is helping rn. Please someone help me or change DexcomG6 .

Two stars because Dexcom as a product is amazing and has changed my fiancé’s life. However, it seems pretty clear that the company’s product strategy focuses only on the hardware and not their mobile apps. Least of all, the Follow app which hasn’t been updated beyond minor bugs fixes possibly ever. But even the Dexcom G6 app is basic and limited.

There are major bugs, inconsistencies, grammatical errors, and even duplicates of the exact same question on the FAQ page. Dexcom releases app updates maybe once a year, if we’re lucky, and they certainly don’t have anywhere in their apps or on their website to report bugs or give feature suggestions. There is so much potential for the Dexcom apps, but it’s wasted (it doesn’t look like they even employ a software product manager).

Thankfully, they have open APIs, so there are some great third-party apps that are way better than Dexcom’s app, but it’s really disappointing that they don’t put more focus here. While their hardware is much better than their competitors due to being so hands-off, it’s not that huge of a competitive advantage and the mobile space is definitely where their competitors can quickly gain some ground on them. I hope Dexcom puts more strategy behind their entire product solution in the future instead of only focusing on the hardware.

When it works, I like it...however I experience signal loss 5-7 times a day and that’s even with my cell phone being in my hand, lap, nightstand table, which as long as it’s within 10-12 feet, this is not supposed to happen. I’ve notified Dexcom at least five times about this, and they continue to tell me that the software may not be compatible with my iPhone 12, and if Apple does an automatic update it can cause problems. However, I don't have automatic updates enabled on my phone, so this shouldn’t be causing a problem. At one point, Dexcom sent me a new transmitter to see if that was the issue, but the same thing has still continued to happen. It doesn’t really help when I keep experiencing signal loss and the phone is right next to me! The other thing happening is I’m having to re-calibrate more than I should as there is often times a 40 to 50% error. Dexcom can signal urgently low blood sugar, which for me is set at 56, yet my Glucometer shows 110! This sort of thing has happened numerous times as well. As I said I like it on the times it works but it’s seeming to get worse and worse each time I change out the sensor. Dexcom needs to do some serious work on these issues.

With this version, I have to calibrate the dumb app once a day! Why??? I get calibration needs, so developers don’t get on here and try to preach your excuses. Before I would calibrate it when a new sensor is put in, but this dumb thing makes me do it once a day! Just like the stupid sensors that 1 out of 4 have some issue with them, now you have to make DexcomG6 even more in line with the stupidity of the sensors? Plus the iPhone widget on my home screen shows one number then you click on it to open DexcomG6 and it shows a different number. Every time. And both of those are different than the numbers shown when you swipe over on your Lock Screen! Lol DexcomG6...All this comes from a guy who loves what dexcom is supposed to do and it’s an awesome device...when it works. And when I don’t have to calibrate each day. I really wish there was a better CGM, I’d switch in a heartbeat. 🤞🏼for the coming years that one may show up. Again, love it, but they need to figure out their app for sure. Make it better and more people would be drawn to dexcom. Instead, you’ve got long time users like me who know the many many frustrations from DexcomG6 and sensors who try to say nice things to others who might need it, but then the negatives turn them off. What are these developers getting paid to make these apps? Too much.

But to be honest, a lot of options just aren’t there. Not a lot of information is available, the graph is hard to read as there are no lines except for going into a low blood sugar, the alerts don’t really work (you can set it to remind tell you that you have a high blood sugar every 30, 40 minutes, but no matter what you set it to, it still just alerts you every darn time it reads a high blood sugar), and the Apple Watch connectivity is so slow and erratic that you should not pick up and Apple Watch just for this system, as I did. It’s supposed to tell you if you’re blood sugar is going up or down, but they don’t seem to realize insulin takes 3 hours (on average for most people) to be fully used. When my blood sugar that’s going down 3 or 4 per 5 minutes, as expected, it apparently doesn’t read that as enough of a decrease to note it. I haven’t really been able to tell what exactly it needs to register a steady increase or decrease, let alone a fast drop/rise. So I can’t really rely on that feature that well either.

So right now I’m paying a lot of money to check my phone to see my blood sugar, which is fine, still better than pricking, but considering the fancy app and all the promised features, , the cost of the whole system (recyclable/reusable sensor placers please?) and that my relatively ancient medical systems have far more user functionality and data without touch screens, DexcomG6 NEEDS to get a overhaul.

DexcomG6 is super accurate and it has made my life so much easier, however I would love to see an upgrade to the events portion, specifically the ability to add notes to the “carbs” and “exercise” events. One of the main functions of DexcomG6 for me is to be able to track how certain lifestyle and meal choices effect my blood sugar levels, specifically how certain foods effect the rise and spikes of my blood sugar, and how my insulin handles specific low-glycemic and high glycemic foods. To be able to add a note of what specific type of food I ate in the carbs event would be incredibly beneficial, and in reviewing my Dexcom charts my healthcare provider and I could better determine how to better adjust my insulin regimen and eliminate or increase certain foods in my diet.

Similarly, a notes function on the “exercise” would be helpful to keep record of how certain aerobic or strength training exercises affect my blood sugar rises and drops. Being able to track over time how my blood sugar reacts to different types of exercise via a “notes” section in the exercise events would be incredibly helpful and beneficial to my awareness, knowledge and control.

I use my Dexcom G6 with my Apple Watch series 4 all the time so I’m not sure what that person was talking about???

As for my own experience... my Dexcom I thought had always been accurate until yesterday, my newly place sensor been to show me that I was going low 78 just after I had eaten a carb filled breakfast out and then continued to drop 70 so we stopped at a grocery store and bought apple juice, yogurt I ate those plus a baby bell cheese, next reading 68, we turned our car around and went to the ER on the way to the ER 59, 43, “LOW” what the Dexcom reads when you are below 40 we call OnStar and ask them arrive at them to advise the local hospital we are on the way. When we arrive at the hospital the juice and yogurt were kicking in 48, through admission process it’s 65 in triage the triage nurse does two Bedside Blood glucose right hand 178, left hand 180 my husbands meter 207, so now we realize that the sensor has failed, I tried to calibrate the sensor and was not able to do so. Called Dexcom and they are sending me a new sensor (to my home and since I am on vacation and I only brought the one sensor that failed so now It’s finger stick city til we go back home AaaasRrrrrGhhh!

I've had a Dexcom for several years now, and truly think thay are amazing. These devices really are life savers and have saved me from going into dangerous lows more times than I can count. I am very very active and because of this see my blood sugar rapidly fall frequently. I try to take all the steps to minimize the lows from occurring with activity But it is still happens frequently with my high activity level. The biggest downfall to the G6 for me is the lack of functionality with the Apple Watch. With my old G5 I could set up as a compilation on the watch face so with a glance I could see my levels. The new G6 is not available as a complication on any watch face and it really drives me insane. It's a strange thing to complain about, because I could easily pull out my phone and look, or carry the receiver; but I had gotten used to it always being on my watch as a g5 user. So the transition to the g6 not working with the Apple Watch as a complication has been frustrating. Other than that, I think it's amazing. The only other issue I have had numerous times is when it's time to change the sensor, I have had 3 or 4 sensors error out on warm up saying no restarts allowed. (They were new sensors). Dexcom has replaced these, but it's a pain when it happens.

I just discovered the second alert setup where you can establish a second time-bounded alert for, as an example - night time. As soon I set the (11:30 - 6 am) night time 2nd schedule, where i substantially tightened up my max and my min alert values, the G6 app started crashing each time I tried to get back into “alerts” to make edits. That first started about 10 pm and now, a hour-ish (at 11:20) its pretty apparent b/c of my current 44 reading that alerts aren’t working (??)...luckily I still feel lows and wake up, so I’ve corrected...but something weird is happening in DexcomG6 . So, since it’s taken me a while to type this (11:20 -11:46) I did just get a low glucose alert at 11:32. Something weird is going on because I didn’t get any alerts prior to 11:30 during the time when I should have gotten my normal alerts outside of my 2nd more specific schedule. My normal schedule is low alert at 65 and urgent low alert at 55 so getting to 44 without an alert (again, all that occurred prior to 11:30 and I did get an alert at 11:32 based on my second alert schedule) makes me think my normal alerts are somehow on the fritz but my 2nd more specific alerts are working???

Needs fix for the alerts section - getting to 44 ain’t great!

I’m a new dexcom user and have been on the G6 for about 3 months. I did not opt for the receiver and use my iPhone X to setup and monitor my levels. I honestly don’t know how I was living without this device. I really haven’t had any issues with DexcomG6 and I’ll only get signal loss when I’m actually out of range of my iPhone X. I love the Apple Watch integration but that does have its issues. I use the modular watch face on a series 4 Apple Watch. There are a few times where the numbers will not display but I usually just tap on the section and it opens up the g6 Watch app and shows me my numbers. It would be great if I could just glance at it. My main complaint would be if the complications could be updated to use the new watchOS 5 Watch faces. I’m stuck using the old modular face. I mean it’s totally a first world problem but oh well. Also if the g6 could connect to my Apple Watch when out of range of my iPhone would be great as well. I thought I read something about support for that and that would be amazing! Also for the other reviewers and readers, if you’re not using the Sugarmate app in conjunction with this one, you’re missing out.

I really love my dexcom however I have a few complaints about DexcomG6 . It would really be great to have an option to put in notes. Sometimes I will write have to write on a sticky note, but those can easily be lost between doctors appointments. Also I have recently gotten sick for the first time since getting my dexcom so I have been checking for ketones. I looked and there is no option in the “Events” to log ketones which I find incredibly odd, like why not?
I have seen a lot of reviews talking about the signal loss problem. I personally have found that the recommended site for your transmitter, your lower stomach, produces the no signal problem a lot more often than other places. I alternate sites between my biceps and left and right lower stomach (always above my belt and pants line as this can cause interference) and I prefer my arms as when its on your stomach it is easier to sleep on and lose signal, your belt or pants may mess up the signal, and you happen to move your torso a lot and if I don’t stand just right at insertion I can feel the sensor every time I move.
(TL;DR): No option to input ketones and no option to make notes (First paragraph). There is a signal loss problem at times but I have personally found that its usually the insertion sight that is the problem (Second paragraph).

I’m a tween living with type 1 diabetes, and honestly this cgm is good, but needs just a few improvements. I like that it reads my blood sugar every 5 minutes and predicts urgent lows. However, I wish that it would predict regular lows and highs, because my tslim insulin pump connects to this cgm, and it can do that. I also love that it sends alerts to my Apple Watch from my phone and that, like I said earlier I am in LOVE with the fact that it connects to my insulin pump so that it’s much easier to manage my diabetes. It’s also great that you can get free overpatches, which are especially great for the pool, so that the cgm doesn’t come off as often. Usually though, the adhesive is pretty good, and I don’t even need the overpatches. I also really love that you can customize the sounds of the alerts, it’s nice.I know that the Dexcom clarity app has night mode, and I really wish that DexcomG6 had that too, because honestly, no one wants to wake up to an alert at 3am and then see a screen bright as the sun. I also think it would be great if maybe the sensor warmup didn’t take so long, if possible. And finally, my most important complaint. We all know diabetes is really hard, and putting on this sensor SERIOUSLY hurts. So please, if you can, make it less painful. Thanks, you guys are doing a great job, and I really don’t want to seem whiny or like some idiot Karen. Really, your cgm is pretty awesome.

Dexcom has changed my life!
I have been a Type 1 for 23 years and I am over 60. I thought I knew how digestion worked and performed finger sticks 5-6 times per day in my maintenance plan. Unless I dieted with chicken salads and no carb life style, my Hemoglobin A1C was usually around 8.0.
With Dexcom and being linked to my Apple phone and watch, it is incredible what I learned about digestion alone due to receiving blood sugar readings every 5 minutes! The graph is incredible and a really useful part is when you engage with DexcomG6 and input your carb intake, your insulin doses and even exercise. It is easy to learn. As soon as you do the inputs, you can see how and when carbs digest and when the insulin works on it. Immediately after beginning use of the Dexcom I lowered my A1C from 8.0 to 6.9 and without dieting. Pretty much been eating what I want, just smarter.
Only one concern for me is a skin issue. I use my hip areas for Dexcom placement. After a few months the areas of placement are leaving the skin a bit red and irritated. Trying products to help the issue.

Downloaded DexcomG6 after getting an Apple Watch - love it. Haven’t had any issues with signal loss myself (iPhone X, almost always near me). I am using the watch complication with the older Apple Watxh face (Modular), but like everyone else here would love to see an update supporting some of the newer Apple Watch faces (e.g. Infograph Modular). Sometimes the numbers don’t update on my complication (I see “- - -“) but this is an Apple Watch issue, not Dexcom. Tapping it opens the Dexcom app and fixes the issue. Keep the Dexcom Apple Watch app running in the dock, and keep the Dexcom app on the phone running in the background to minimize this from happening.

But the most impressive for me was Dexcom support. I contacted the email address Dexcom keeps posting in replies to other reviews, and got a personal call back on my phone from a knowledgeable tech support rep. I thought my Dexcom app was ignoring my high alert repeat settings - but turns out dismissing high alerts on the watch is not the same as dismissing them in the Dexcom iPhone app. I now dismiss alerts in the Dexcom phone app and my alert repeat settings are honored. Again - was an Apple issue, not a Dexcom app issue.

Thanks Dexcom for innovating! While DexcomG6 can always be improved - you all push the boundaries more than other CGMS providers when it comes to innovating within the constraints of the FDA approval process.

I’m not a fan at all of DexcomG6 forcing a landscape view when I’m trying to see a prior reading. Why can’t I have the same option within the portrait view? Or, can it be an option to not force it to landscape merely by touching the graph area? The sugarmate app allows this, as well as scrolling backwards several days worth of readings, and in this regard is a better experience.

ALSO! I just noticed that in portrait view I no longer get ANY indication of an event. I want to be able to quickly see when I last took a shot. Why remove that functionality? I used that constantly with the g5 app. Definitely disappointing.

Also, I’d love to have the ability to be able to set a quick one time alarm. Let’s say I have my high threshold at 120, knowing that I’m probably heading even higher and take insulin. I’d like to be able to set a one time alarm to be notified if I keep going up. Say in an hour I expect to be at 140, but things go crazy and I’m actually at 240 because the insulin didn’t do what I expected earlier. Wouldn’t it be cool to keep my 120 threshold, and also had an additional threshold of 180 (let’s say) that could grab my attention before things get out of hand?

Overall I love Dexcom, and I’ve been on the sensor enlite through Medtronic and was so disappointed with the accuracy through them. When I got on my Dexcom G5 I was overwhelmingly excited because the accuracy on the G5 was so much better now switching to G6 I’ve noticed that the accuracy is way more poor and is almost Way worse than the sensor enlite. Considering that there’s a brand new product and that it should be working way better than the G5 I feel it locks in that performance overall the reason why I gave it three stars is because adding th considering that there’s a brand new product and that it should be working way better than the G5 I feel it locks in that performance overall the reason why I gave three stars is because the product is painless and doesn’t even hurt when adding it to your body just sad that the calibration on the product is very poor. I’m currently low right now and keeps telling me that I’m fine I think this product needs to go through a lot more development before the FDA approves this this is a life or death situation and currently it is proving to that it could be very dangerous for anybody with type one diabetes

The G6 sensors and system have been a great upgrade from the G5. They seem to be more accurate, I like the slimmer design, the 10-day wear is nice, and not having my to calibrate every 12 hours is wonderful! I did have some signal loss issues at first, but these were partially resolved by asking phone to forget Bluetooth devices I'm not using. It seems the smaller you can make the Bluetooth list, the better. However, I also use both the receiver and phone for double coverage and it is true that the receiver almost never drops signal while the phone occasionally will. It is what it is - Bluetooth is a bit of a flawed protocol, but it's what we've established as the go-to so it's what gets used.
As for DexcomG6 itself, it's solid but some improvements could be useful. In particular, more detailed events and the ability to enter multiple TYPES of insulin. I'm still on MDI - pumps simply won't work for me thanks to year's of scar tissue build up. I REALLY wish I could specify that a shot is short acting or long acting!!
Overall, Dexcom has been a game-changer for my Diabetic life, and while it might occasionally have some glitches, no device like this will ever be perfect 100% of the time. Overall I am very happy!

I started using the Dexcom g6 three months ago. I am thankful for how easy it is to look at my phone and not worry about pricking my finger while chasing my one year old around. I rely on DexcomG6 almost exclusively. For me the biggest issue is it often will lose connection. Normally at night. I have to turn the Bluetooth on and off and restart my phone half the time also. The most annoying thing is how when you have an alert set for high, instead of alerting me again in the 20 minutes I have set, it alerts me with every new reading. The alarm going off every 5 minutes has got me some really strange and worried looks in public places. I’m sure that when your reading changes at all during those 5 minutes, that’s what’s making a new alert but that needs to be fixed. It should give you the option where you set your high alert. It doesn’t alert you again for 20 minutes (or however long) unless it’s gone up an extensive amount, which you could also set. Overall I am thankful for the product and its ability to use on my phone.

Wow. Just wow. DexcomG6 and the accompanying new system have changed my life. I can hardly remember the last time I pricked my finger. It’s amazing that I can finally relax for a little while, knowing “my
BG is fine; it’s not alarming, so it’s in my range.” Y’all, unless you know the stress of life before CGMSes, you can’t possibly let understand the life-changing benefit of always knowing what my BG is and where it’s headed. Not only that, but with Share, my dh can know, while he’s at work, out of town, whatever! He knows my BG and where it’s headed!!! Just by checking his phone. It’s brought so much calm to our lives, and our marriage is happier, too. He was able to pull me aside on our recent vacation and push some buttons on my pump and help me avoid a high, all without me even having to think about it, because his alarms (on his phone) are set to stricter levels than mine, so he’s alerted to my BG fluctuations before I am. Sometimes I can go hours and even a whole day without thinking about my BG when he’s with me. It’s such an incredible blessing for us. Thank you, Dexcom!!!

Just awful from the first day. Readings were scary in that I didn’t understand them. It looks like your crashing or your skyrocketing and it doesn’t say where you will stop. You end up over eating or under eating drinking protein drinks and why chasing readings that just scare you. I gained weight, lost sleep, sick, dizziness, fatigue, and was scared the entire time. No thank you! I’ll go back to finger pricks.

The CGM concept is a Game Changer. I can target whatever A1C I wish. This concept works. The G6 is a miserable let down. The G5 did not have the signal loss issues the G6 has. Being hypoglycemic unaware, the G6 is a failure.