# Serious OmniPod PDM failure and pump reconsiderations **URL:** \ **Category:** Type 1 & LADA\ **Created:** [January 4, 2020, 8:08pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/serious-omnipod-pdm-failure-and-pump-reconsiderations/9049 "2020-01-04T20:08:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 27
**Author:** ![T1Allison](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c77e96/32.png) [@T1Allison](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/T1Allison)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2020, 2:20am UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/serious-omnipod-pdm-failure-and-pump-reconsiderations/9049/27 "2020-01-05T02:20:14Z")
I’m sorry that your vacation had complications due to your PDM failure and your iPhone failure. Based on your numbers posted, it looks like you prevailed and still managed much better bg control than lots of people can boast! > [@John](#): > > I do love the ease of the Omnipod and the wireless nature but I am reconsidering very seriously after this incident which is almost unavoidable and doomed to happen over and over with possible more serious consequences Maybe I’ve had better PDM luck than others, but I’ve had one dead lithium back up battery and I dropped one in my dog’s water bowl. I do take a spare PDM anytime I am more than a few hours from home. That’s my personal preference for ease of managing “life” that happens with life support devices. But you’ve demonstrated that you can do quite well with just a syringe if you have to! I’ve expressed my thoughts on the implicit limitations when using medical devices in other threads. As an example: > [@Insertion site, Lipohypertrophy](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/insertion-site-lipohypertrophy/8793/21): > > ![](https://avatars.discourse.org/v4/letter/u/aeb1de/40.png) Unstuck: > > > I don’t accept that management should include increasing insulin requirement (day 2 and 3), when the medical device should ensure quality, efficiency and reliability. > > I understand this thought, I think. However, I’m going to do whatever I have to do to keep myself safe. I figure I’m pinch-hitting for a bum organ so anything I do to replace its function is going to be full of necessary compromises. If I’m going anywhere away from home for several days, I’m taking my Dexcom receiver as a back up and a spare PDM. I never am so limited in packing space as to not include those things. I can understand people not wanting to do that, but the more sophisticated we make our daily care, the more failure points we introduce. I think that’s just what comes with the territory. Maybe the PDMs could be more robust, or more sophisticated, or integrated with something else…but I appreciate the tubeless pods and work with it in a way that works for me. --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/serious-omnipod-pdm-failure-and-pump-reconsiderations/9049)._