I just started using the omnipod. I'm really loving it overall. the one drawback for me is that there are not buttons on the pod itself, so if there is an alarm, I have to pull out the PDM to silence the alarm. With my old pump, I could quickly silence the alarm.
I go to a lot of music concerts, and they always say silence phones, pagers, etc. with old pump, if it alarmed, the alarm was pretty quiet and I again, could quickly silence it. for those of you with omnipods who may go to a music show (obviously, not a rock concert! the alarm would not be an issue), do you just have your PDM in your lap in case the alarm goes off so you can quickly silence it?
If I am away from home my PDM is always close by, I have had an alarm go off during a movie once and was able to silence it with no problems, it is when it does not silence and you have to physically take it off and stick a pin in it to stop the alarm, that has happened 2x this year, luckily I have been at home each time. There are always issues in life, we deal with them and if someone does not understand well that would be their problem. hope that helps.
hi there my son has been using the omnipod 3 years and of course he was nervous about this at school but 99% of the time if he is going to get an error alarm it is an occlusion error shortly after a bolus. that's the way our brains work we work out all the worst case scenarios! I would just say have your pdm in your purse lucky you as a woman always having a purse! and enjoy the concert!! amy
that being said the alarm is loud to you but not overly loud, Jacob had an alarm at lunch at school and no one heard it not even him for a while, his worst case scenario happened and it was no big deal. when he walked into the nurses office everyone even the nurse looked panicked but Jacob was able to laugh about this!
Hi! Yes, it does happen, but if you cover the POD with your hand, it should muffle the sound completely (based on my experience) until you can get to your PDM to turn it off. I actually do not like the annoying beeps to let me know POD is getting low of insulin and it is expiring soon. I have had more comments, notices and embarrassments from those beeps, totally at the wrong times (for me). Wish there was a better way for notifications.
There is some good advice here already. The only other thing I can think of is to tinker with the expiration warning beeps so that they will not interrupt the concert. So, if you have the pod set to alarm 6 hours before your pod expires, and you know that you will be in the midst of an activity at which you do not want the beeping, you can change that to 8 hours before, or 2 hours before, or whatever will keep the beeping out of that time period.
I do a little timing of delivery and eating to ensure that I don't hear the alarm for things like empty reservoir during times where it would not be good. Other than that, it's pretty much a crap shoot. Like Disneyanna said, cupping the pump with your hand will silence it about 90% which is a good thing. Used that a few times without causing any undo attention toward my quick exit to remedy alarm situations.
thanks for the responses. Going to my first show tonight. Luckily, it's an outdoor show, and a pretty loud band, so I should be OK even if it does alarm!!
have a great time, hey if you think of it send a bit of a diabetes blessing off to Jacob and me! he is going on a field trip to the statue of liberty and new York city on friday including a security check and pat down where he will obviously have to say I am a diabetic in public one thing he really hates to do.... he is almost 16 and capable of handling himself D wise but I will still be nervous, I love when he says you know I am really more excited than nervous about the field trip that means he is nervous and wants to talk about it! blessings to you, amy
I have had this same problem. I am a professional orchestral musician and when I first switched to Omnipod, I completely panicked about the alarms going off during a quiet part of a rehearsal, or worse, the most intensely quiet point of a performance. I’ve gotten a bit more relaxed about warning alarms during rehearsals, but I’m still hyper vigilant about when I change pods before the weekends, for fear of an alarm sounding during a concert. Luckily, up till this point, I’ve never had the awful, loud alarm go off in a concert. Once it did happen in rehearsal. I ripped it off quickly and sat on it until I could leave without it disrupting anyone. Surprisingly effective way to silence a screaming pod…
The uppity, formality of modern classical music concerts was not designed with medical technology in mind!
KB viola: I figured a fellow musician would totally understand my paranoia!
I am more concerned about some of the small chamber music stuff I go to or the experimental jazz shows--which can be very loud at times, but also very quiet.
went to my first show--was outdoors, and a loud group, so no issues. Also, just in general, not had a problem with loud alarms. Well, one, but that was my fault. My pod fell off, and I deactivated it. but I was upstairs with my PDM and my pod was in my tennis bag. so the PDM couldn't communicat with the pod to tell it that it was deactivated. So of course, after I deactivated it, a couple minutes later the pod started screaming. but all worked out fine.
Surprisingly effective way to silence a screaming pod…