Hi @fox ! Welcome!
We’ve had this problem in the past, but seem to have overcome it with suggestions from other folks here at FUD. In addition to the comments above by @Aaron , there are a few threads you might enjoy reading (@Beacher and @Aaron and @Eric have had great tips in the last year).
Here are a few of my favorites (not just because I started some of them!
Happy Thanksgiving to everyone! And here’s a story that no one but you guys will get.
We did “thanksgiving lite” at EH’s mom’s house, one friend came and EH’s mom and dad. This would be day 3 on the OmniPod (future comments on that)!
Literally as I was hauling the turkey from the oven, EH walks into the kitchen and points out his pod is leaking insulin all over. So we find some rubbing alcohol to prepare a new site and go take a look. Apparently while he was modeling the pod (by raising his ar…
It has occurred to me that we are going to adopt @Millz strategy of asking for a pod change every two days. Last night, around 11 PM, we had another failure. Truthfully, it probably failed a lot earlier, as a slow leak, and we didn’t catch it.
Welcome, Finny!
I had a very similar problem several times a month recently, with damp adhesive after the first day and climbing blood sugars that seemed unaffected by repeated corrections, and with the cannula and adhesive firmly in place. Then I read about tunneling, a situation that happens mostly with Teflon cannulas in which the insulin backs up along the cannula to the surface.
I noticed the leaks were more of a problem when I gave larger boluses, so I started to reduce the amount of bol…
Hi all! I just wanted to post an update in case anyone was interested. Back on January 5th I posted about my 13 year old daughters leaking PODs and how frustrated I was. Well that same day I called her endo who put me in touch with our clinical services manager here in Michigan and got us some PODs to try that were not from our supply. We tried a POD from a different lot and no leaking (we got 3 days) and as a matter of fact we’ve gotten 3 days out of all except one that was sadly the victim of …
Some nuts and bolts about the OmniPod that might be of use to you:
… and what exactly happens in the minutes leading to its expiration/deactivation?
This what we tried to figure out today. We had a pod that was shown on our PDM as being activated 3 days ago at 10:01am (9/7/2017). We decided to ride it as long as we could, and test a bolus at the very end of it to see what would happen.
Omnipod says that a pod should be changed 3 days (72 hours) after it has been activated, but that it will remain active another 8 hours after activation, so that you have a tot…
Are you asking about just adjusting your basal profile? It’s pretty easy to do.
You can’t make a change while it is running, so turn off insulin delivery for a short time so you can edit your basal program:
From the Home screen, go to >Suspend, and suspend insulin delivery for 30 minutes / 0.5 hours
Now edit your basal program:
Go to >Settings>Basal programs
Select the basal program you want to change.
Pick edit
Go to the time you want to change, or add a new time segment, and enter the r…
If you use the OmniPod, you know one of the quirks is the Confirm button, and the fact that it moves around. It was done that way to require people to look at it, and not just blindly do things on it.
But I like being able to do things without needing to look at the PDM. Like when running, or driving.
For others, it might that they are in a meeting and don’t want to be looking at a PDM which could give the impression they are looking at their phone.
So I came up with a way to get past the con…
I can understand about the sleep and not wanting to do it in the middle of the night.
If the insulin has been in there for 2 or 3 days, maybe it’s better to discard it. But if it’s only been in there for 1 day, it doesn’t matter if you put it into a different pod. The insulin doesn’t care if you take if from pod A and put it into pod B.
Maybe the insulin would be in a pod reservoir for 4 days max instead of 3 days, but that isn’t really an issue. It’s not as important as the length of time a…
And a few things that we love about the OmniPod (so it’s not all doom and gloom!
I thought it was about time to start a positive thread about the OmniPod!
It’s been almost a month since @EricH has been pumping with the OmniPod and overall it’s been a good experience.
Things we love:
ease of microbolusing for correction (don’t have to get out the supplies to inject)
different ratios for correction factor and insulin to carbohydrate ratios depending on the time of day
not having to mess around with basal injections right before bed
not having to pull out the pen and needle…
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