This I’ve heard is a good way to re-adhere the pod if the stickiness wears away–just ordered some:
And I’m going to try it with my dexcom cgm as well.
Re-adhere? Once the pod comes off I don’t think you can re-adhere it. But that might be a good way to start it so it won’t come off at all.
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Sometimes only part of the dressing that sticks to your skin comes undone. If you catch it early before the canula pulls out, you can successfully re-adhere the Pod and continue on.
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Right, this happens to me a lot–once it starts it just gets worse. But with this adhesive you can swab and pump on.
This happens to me a lot when just a small part has pulled away–or the entire edge sometimes if it gets really wet. And, of course, you’d want to make sure the canula is good to go.
Here’s where I found out about it–thought this was really clever:
Darn, I thought that article was going to be about literally re-attaching one. I tried an omni-pod but managed to yank 2 of them off within a 10 day period, had one that failed to deploy the cannula properly to start with (the click went off about 30 minutes after we set it aside in the discard pile!), and one where the pod stayed stuck but the cannula had come out and was poking me in the back. That one hurt like a bugger, and of course my BGs were going up. All in all I went through 8 Pods in 10 days 
If I could have at least managed to re-insert the ones that got yanked off, or just needed the cannula re-inserted, I might have considered sticking with Omnipod, despite the Omnipod clearly not wanting to stick with me.
I hope you called Insulet; they replace ALL defective pods.
I ended up returning the Omnipod system, and getting a 100% refund on the whole thing. I will say Insulet was wonderful to work with through the process. At the time I was so disabled that it was very difficult to get to training, and they even had their contracted CDE come out to my house to train me.
When I had to return the stuff, there were a few pods in the already open package that they wouldn’t be able to use, and they let me give those to my friend who was being forced from Omnipod onto another pump due to changes in Medicare, so that held her off the switch for another week or so.
My other issue was that due to my insulin use I’d had to switch to a U-500 insulin and it was meaning I had to bolus 30 minutes ahead. I think if it’d been just faulty pods, I might have stuck with it, but things ended up being an inconvenience instead of the pump being this freeing experience it was supposed to be.
I’ve made some big changes in my life though, and I’m using a LOT less insulin, and hope to keep reducing that amount, which would mean I could use the OmniPod with my Novolog! I’m also learning, here, about combining insulin pumps with injected basals, which could be an option. Now that I know about GiffGrips and Skin-Tac, I may eventually give the OmniPod another try in a year or so. I don’t know if I’d want to use another pump other than Omnipod due to the tubing, esp as I spend as much as 5-6 hours a week in water before accounting for showers!