robyn you can do it! so worth it!!!
I just made the jump to my first pump having been on shots for nine years. Chose the Omnipod and couldn’t be happier. It’s been ten days and I absolutely love it! Honestly, I don’t even realize I have it on most of the time and I have learned future pods will be much more slim. Good luck!
Awesome! I totally missed that. Very cool. That’s something that Insulet should be offering with the OmniPod. (Or maybe they are at this point. I know they weren’t back when I was using it).
Glad to hear that. My daughter is only 13 and we got a demo kit without knowing that you had to be 18.
Yeah, Omnipod works well for many but really poorly for some which is why I’ve got my eye on Insulet’s 45 day money back guarantee.
I just ordered a demo from OmniPod, I’m going to compare the two against each other. Someone mentioned something about tossing out the cradle, that gets tossed everytime you refill the resevoir, which is every 2-3 days.
As far as pros and cons for all of us, I think we were all afraid of the unknowns of pumping. Your first pump caused you to adjust to it at first. So when we change to different systems, we all aren’t quite sure we really want to let what we are comfortable with go, at least that’s the way I feel. This is a great discussion!!
I’ve been thinking of trying to pump symlin. I know it’s off-label, but I’m going to order a trial of one of these for that!
I care less about tubeless and more about integrating pump plus CGM! Go, device developers. And throw a phone, meter, and MP3 player into the same device, too!
Omnipod is waterproof…that’s why I switched from MM to it. B/c I was in the pool for long periods of time and it wrecked havic on my post workout numbers (b/c I didn’t have any more insulin). I am sticking w/ the pod for now b/c it’s waterproof and the Solo is not (switching would be like going back to the MM)…
Does it take long to get used to that bulk (compared to a regular infusion set)?
What if you sleep on your side, does it get uncomfortable?
Not to hijack the thread here but why would you want to do such a thing? It seems horribly inconvenient compared to a pen.
Jason- No, I didnt notice any discomfort while sleeping- and I’m a belly sleeper/ side sleeper. I only wore it for two days tho. It might bother me later.
I’m trying out the OmniPod demo today. A sales rep is coming out to see me on my lunch break to “install” it. haha.
Danny- Me too. I always say “Don’t knock it til you try it” but when it comes to my own diabetes management, I will research the pros and cons of something for months (or years) before deciding whether or not to move forward.
I started a thread in the symlin forum.
OMG! that pen is the worst pain in the b@#$ I’ve ever seen. The whole pen idea is just to dumb us all down. Not smart enough to pull up the right dose? No problem, here’s a big, clunky, pain to carry around “pen”! I loath the pen. I would just dislike a vial. Wearing a second pump all the time, just to have the convenience of dosing and having what I need with me would be worth it.
I agree. Three cheers for pens. And to think I found out about them by accident when my wife and I saw a man using a pen at Disneyland. It was great to stop the syringe and vial habit. Maybe someday I’ll rethink the pump. Certainly the Omnipod has always sounded like the best option. So, Solo4You also sounds good. But it’s this thing of being attached. And the possibilty of the tubing clogging up. And maybe I like pens because I started out in journalism.
Humm, wonder if we’ll get to see these in the UK?
I don’t think it is a matter of intelligence. Of course I could draw up the dose with a syringe and a vial, but it is far more convenient to pull back on a pen plunger and click it forwards twice. The dose of Symlin never changes so I don’t see the benefit to a variable-dose mechanism like that in a pump. In any case, another pump weighs more than a Symlin pen, holds less Symlin, and is going to cost tremendously more when you consider pump supplies. And two infusion sites…yikes.
But to each their own…good luck if that is what you decide to do. I’ll be curious to hear how it works out.
This is weird, are pen’s unusual in the States, Novo Pen’s are the NHS favourite in the UK. I switched to a pump a year ago, it is very good… I don’t know tubes should get blocked, they’re usually to be changed every 2 days?
I loved my pen, but prefer the pump! way better control! anyway then didn’t do a Pen in a Mont Blanc (only kidding) I made my nurse laugh when I said that!
The whole idea behind the pump is FREEDOM!! I’ve been on pills, pens, syringes and vials, and now the pump. Out of all of these, I would choose the pump hands down! The pump acts as an artificial pancreas, gives you a certain amount of insulin every hour. You get used to the set being on you, in fact, you don’t really feel it. It took me 3 years to even consider going to the pump, I too didn’t want to be ‘hooked up’ 24-7, and at that time, the set was implanted so pumps have come a long way! I only have one infusion site, I’ve done the MM sensor, and didn’t care for it.
I’ve started pumping since I’ve been on Tu… as such a new diabetic I can tell you this routine compared to the MDI routine is fabulous.