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[Beacher]

Welcome, Lisa. There is a ton of great Omnipod info here. Some recent threads include:

Failing Omnipod: slow leak

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.

Replacement Omnipods: may need follow-up to get shipped

I wanted to note that I never received my replacement pods for the ones that malfunctioned - and I called today, and they had a record they’d been talking with me, but no record of those pods being sent out. The lady assured me we’d have them 2-day air this week. Just wanted to note that folks might want to follow up with no pods magically appear. She was very friendly. It’s nice they do record detailed phone call notes - I really appreciate not having to re-explain everything, and having a rec…

Omnipod failure

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…

Don’t let the repeated word “failure” discourage you! Some of us rather love our pods.