Hello all,
I don’t know what IV3000 tape is, but for my five year old little boy, we use Kinesio Tape (you have to order it online). It has been keeping his pods on so far (he’s been on for two weeks now). Good luck!
I know some people actually take a little glue and adhere the pod to the tape in a couple of spots to help it stay attached. For us, and I think I’ve read a couple of other people point this out - my son lost his first couple of pods (he is a very active 10 year old) but hasn’t really lost many since. (He’s been on it over a year now) I think part of it is being a little more subconsciously aware of where it is?
We do wrap the pod with Coban 3M tape if he’s going to play basketball now - or sometimes if we remember before soccer. You can buy it in 3 inch width that takes about two wraps around to secure the pod. It doesn’t stick to the skin, but sticks pretty well to itself and is easy to take off. You can get it in flesh color and also quite a variety of colors.
I’ll say that there is a bit of a learning curve with “pod awareness”, just like there would be if you had an infusion site with a tube on it (you learn not to catch the tube on things when it’s hanging out of your waistline, etc). I know I bumped the pod quite a few times on the edges of doorways when it was on the back of my arms in the beginning (it’s funny how close I walk to doorways w/o noticing it 
but now I hardly ever hear that “thump” b/c I’ve learned to not get quite as close as I’m rounding the corner of a door. Not really sure what the activities that your son is having trouble with. If he’s ripped it on something like sliding down the couch (going from sitting to laying) or something like that, it will likely just be an awareness thing to which he’ll have to become accustomed. If it’s his friends wrestling/rough-housing with him, then it may be a conversation he has to have w/ them to at least let them know where his pod is located, so that they try to steer clear of it. It could be similar to wanting to rough-house while wearing nice glasses–you can rough house as long as you stay clear of the face/head (to avoid the glasses). Same thing would apply to the pod site.
I never had great success w/ IV 3000 over the pod b/c of it’s odd size. For me it just created a breeding ground since it didn’t breath readily and I am an active/sweaty person when I’m working out.
I’ve used the coban wrap and had pretty good success with it on my arms. It keeps it snug w/o the risk of “catching an edge” of the pod and pulling it away from the adhesive (ripping one of the welding points rather than pulling the adhesive off of the skin). On my back it’s never really been an issue.
Someone else on here has used the basketball arm wraps (“shooter sleeves”) to keep the pod in place on his arms. I don’t have any of these, but I use a set of bicycle arm warmers sometimes. These are thicker (warmer) than the shooter sleeves, so depending on the activity, they may be too hot.
Hope you can find something to help keep the pods attached to the adhesive layer!
Like Bradford says, I think awareness unfortunately is probably the best you can do - and this takes time. For the first several months I used the pod, I knocked TONS of them off in the same way you described. (Adhesive stays on, but pod rips away from adhesive patch) And I’m not particularly active in many ways. For me, they would get knocked off just getting in and out of the car, walking through doorways, etc. At one point, I knocked 10 in a row off without getting one on for 2 days.
I tried super-glueing the pod to the adhesive patch and it might have helped a little, but ultimately the thing that really worked best for me was just the time (maybe 6 months in my case) to learn to adjust to having the thing on my body.
Good luck!
Opsite Flexifit works great for me. I bought the big roll and cut them into strips to secure the pod to the skin over my site. It’s completely unobtrusive, comfortable, and lasts easily for three days. I know that awareness is key, but sometimes s*** happens. Just like Bradford, I’ve lost a few pods to doorjambs.
For me though, cursing my own clumsiness didn’t seem to do much to save my pods. I’d go a few hours with no problems but, eventually, I’d lapse and lose a pod. Five minutes of time cutting Opsite into strips and strapping down my pod has added enough security for me not to have to worry about the pods that go onto vulnerable locations.
Good luck in finding a solution! I don’t have any new input, other than to say that the Coban 3M tape is copied by many others. Generically, it is the self adhesive wrap. Target brand has it in purple. Many drug stores have a light tan color. Petco has royal blue and hot pink.
I heard from one omnipod customer service agent that the FDA wanted the pod to be able to come off the adhesive, as a safety measure, so to speak.
Thank you for all the input! It sounds like it may just take some time to develop that “pod awareness”. Door jams, corners and rough housing have all been issues. We’ll also experiment with some of the tapes and wraps suggested.
Again, thank you. This community has been a goldmine of information and support for us.
–Cynthia
Thanks for the links to the arm wraps/warmers. We will give those a try, too.
We just got a shooter sleeve and it works great!
My daughter is very active as well. The two times she tried to wear the pod on her arms, the cannula came out while she was on the tennis court. She finds that rotating around her stomach works best for her. She did lose one pod to a door jam when she took a rest room break in the middle of a match and in her haste to return to the court she pod lost the battle with a door jam. 
Try the Nike basketball shooter sleeve. It is the short one, not the whole arm one. My son wears it when he plays volleyball.
Believe it or not, we usually have more trouble when the tape is on than not. My theory is that the way I am putting the tape interferes with what should be the natural motion of the pod. My son swims 4 days per week and even then we have pretty good luck. We use his upper butt cheek(horizontal), front of his thigh (vertical, cannula down) and back of arm (vertical, cannula down). When he swims the pod is secured by his jammers unless it is on his arm and then we slide a terry cloth wrist sweat band over it to reduce the drag and likelihood that it will come off.
Good luck!
Daneen
Never thought about a shooter sleeve. I’m going to run over to Niketown and see if I can find one that fits.
I’m an active 20 year old on the pod and had a lot of trouble in the beginning with having it stick - especially over the summer at the beach! I’ve started using SkinTac (http://www.americandiabeteswholesale.com/-strse-2592/Torbot-Skin-Tac-Adhesive/Detail.bok) and it’s worked wonders. I haven’t had any trouble with my pod staying on since I’ve started using, in fact, the only trouble I have now is getting it off! If you try the SkinTac wipes, use a little bit of baby oil to get the pod off. Hope this helps!
I had a hard time finding one of the shorter ones. Finally found it online at Sports Chalet. My son wore it at a volleyball tournament today and it worked great!
We use a foam tape ( I think by nexcare).It’s sorta flesh colored. We just get it at Walmart. I believe the packaging say its “waterproof” tape. It works well for us. We just wrap it a couple of times. My son doesn’t like the coban. I have an active 6 year old.
I’m an advocate of Kinesio Tex tape, you can find it online with a Google search at various physical therapy supply houses. you can cut a 1 inch wide, or use the whole 2 inch wide strip across the pod, and it is a nice stretchy tape that does not seem to cause much skin irritation. My son, 13, uses it for his soccer matches. Also, you can put on a tight fitting UnderArmor shirt or shorts, that will hold the pod secure, and keep it from getting pulled off.