# Pod Placement Successes and Failures **URL:** https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/pod-placement-successes-and-failures/7579 **Category:** Pump **Created:** [May 28, 2019, 2:50am UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/pod-placement-successes-and-failures/7579 "2019-05-28T02:50:48Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 4
### Author: ![Beacher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a6a055/32.png) [@Beacher](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/Beacher) #### Post date: [May 28, 2019, 5:47pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/pod-placement-successes-and-failures/7579/4 "2019-05-28T17:47:14Z")
To this list of sites I will add pecs, any part there’s tissue to pinch up, and up toward the shoulder joint. Though I’m not sure how well it works for females. > [@Omnipod placement: where is best?](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/omnipod-placement-where-is-best/5327/20): > > For me … Very comfortable, good absorption: backs of upper arms (despite lipoatrophy), abdomen (from ribs down to belt line, and round the back as far as I can go without the pod pressing against a chair back; shares with Dexcom sensor) Comfortable, but sometimes iffy absorption (mostly because of said atrophy): top and side of upper thighs Comfortable as far as pod goes but not comfortable when sitting, though good absorption: upper butt In two years of podding, I’ve had the occasional blee… --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/pod-placement-successes-and-failures/7579)._