#1852 Dexcom G6 Leaving and G8 Coming?!
Juicebox Podcast: Type 1 Diabetes
Scott Benner
4.8 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 16 May 2026
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Dexcom G6 discontinuation and Investor Day updates , highlighting the 15-day G7 baseline , the upcoming self-adapting G8 , and future potassium monitoring.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, friends. |
| 0:15.9 | Listen, before we get started, I think I should just say out of the gate, |
| 0:19.4 | Dexcom is sundowning the G6. |
| 0:21.8 | If you haven't heard about that, the production of the G6 officially ends July 1st, 2026, |
| 0:28.3 | which is just about six weeks from today when this episode drops. |
| 0:32.3 | Supplies still trickle in maybe through your pharmacy and distributors for a little while |
| 0:36.0 | after that, but Dexcom is not guaranteeing availability past July 1, and they're encouraging everyone still on the G6 |
| 0:43.3 | to talk to their doctor about upgrading to G7 or G7 15 day before the cutoff. If you're a G6 user, |
| 0:51.1 | and I know a lot of you still are, that means that in the next few weeks, you want to be |
| 0:55.5 | having a conversation with your endo or your prescriber about getting a new prescription written. |
| 0:59.9 | The G7 is generally covered by the same insurance that covered your G6, but you've got to |
| 1:04.4 | actually move on it. So don't wait until you're on your last sensor, okay? Now here's a few |
| 1:10.0 | practical things if you've been holding off on switching. |
| 1:13.4 | The G7 doesn't restart off label the way the G6 did. |
| 1:16.8 | If you've been getting extra days out of your G6 sensors, |
| 1:19.5 | that's not a feature that carries over. |
| 1:21.1 | So plan for that. |
| 1:22.6 | The G7 is smaller, shorter warm-up time, |
| 1:26.0 | and the 15-day version is what Dexcom is now calling its |
| 1:29.8 | baseline going forward. And the G6 Pro, the one used in clinics for blinded readings, is also |
| 1:35.4 | being discontinued. There's no announced direct replacement for that one yet. So if you've been |
| 1:39.6 | hearing about it from your endo, that's why. All right. Now, with that G6 housekeeping out of the way, |
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