New insurance is sending me back to MDI after 5yrs on Omnipod

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@Shecamp

Don’t want to distract from the issue you’re speaking about, but I’m interested in the Omnipod 5.

There’s a recently reactivated topic here which might help:

Omnipod - Correction Factor and Glucose goal range - which has biggest effect (in your real experience)?

Hi there Beacher. Hope youre well. Thanks for your input on the Extended Bolus. Does that just deliver insulin over a period of time, of your choosing? A dual bolus is when you can program your pump (Medtronic, anyways) to deliver a % up front, and then the balance % over a certain period of time. Like, if I wanted to eat pizza, I might “tell” the pump to give me coverage for 30gms up front, and then 30gms (50% and 50%) over a extended two hour period of time. But you can split it anyway you ch…

Changing from the Dash to the O5 is a major change; it’s going from a traditional pump with CGM to a full AIDS (Artificial Insulin Delivery System). That’s a different approach for us, a big deal. There’s lots of discussion here and a lot of wisdom; the above post dates from 2023, if you follow it through you will learn a lot of the differences between Dash and other traditional systems and the O5 and other AIDSes.