@DrBB Loved your rant. I find it supremely annoying with the 630 that EVERYTIME I bolus and don’t want to set a reminder, I have to undo the automatic 2-hour reminder by pressing the button 4 times! I used to just have to press a button once IF I wanted the reminder.
And, the other annoyance is that stupid 4-way arrow you have to press to even use ANYTHING on the 630. They give you a couple of minutes to do whatever, and then you’llo have to press it again if you decide you want to do something else. Example: I bolus for a meal, start my meal and then decide I want to check how much insulin is left in the reservoir. Even if it’s only been about 3 minutes since I bolused, I have to press that stupid arrow to get the pump to allow me to do anything.
Can I join you with my own baseball bat in that room???
@Scott_Eric - what did/do you not like about the OmniPod. I’m currently considering it. I’m on a Medtronic 630G and unter warranty with it until 2023, but found out tonight that I’m eligible for OmniPod through my pharmacy benefits without having to go through a Durable Medical Equipment Company (which would all go towards my deductible that is no where near met yet). Pharmacy benefits show $0 copay!!! My supplies through Medtronic goes through my DME so will have to pay out of pocket for those for a while until I meet the $2500 deductible - so it REALLY makes the OmniPod look attractive.
Some of my criticisms are outdated now since I haven’t tried the new PDM and I was comparing it to an older Medtronic paradigm pump. For example, I didn’t like the size of the PDM or how you can’t bolus without looking at the PDM and going through several options, but I think this applies to all modern pumps. Main things I didn’t like were:
-Pod change highs (happened every time and never experienced this with a tubed pump)
-Having to change an entire pod and refill a new one with insulin during a failure (with a tubed pump can just change the site, I would often re-use tubing and reservoirs much longer)
-Having to change the pod at 3 days + 8 hours max or it would shut off and start screaming, no matter how good the site was working, how much insulin left, or how inconvenient of a time it was to change it
-No ability to silence pod alarms without using the PDM (which was embarrassing if I was in a meeting for example and left my PDM in my office)
-Need to carry so many more things and sometimes have to change pods at terrible times in terrible places - I would always have to carry a spare pod or two and insulin everywhere I went, because a pod could fail randomly, would need to be changed if it was 80 hours since I last changed pods, etc. With a tubed pump I usually just carried a syringe and never once had to use it, a pump failure would be rare and catastrophic and if a site was working when I left the house, I was confident it would just keep working
-People complain about tubing caught on doorknobs, etc., but there were many more times I knocked a pod against something causing it to fail and scream
-No ability to disconnect a pump without removing it, making some activities like going in a hot tub difficult (since the heat would always degrade the insulin inside)
-Arms and legs just aren’t good places for a pump for me for whatever reason, and a pod is not superior to a tubed infusion site on my abdomen since it sticks out more and easier to knock off
Again, these are my criticisms and some may not apply anymore since I haven’t used it for 4 years. There were definitely benefits to not having tubing, though I would argue those benefits also apply to MDI.
