Omnipod with Humalog

[Eric2]

@Jake5

Thanks for everyone’s replies! Unfortunately Novolog is now a plan exclusion under UHC (at least for me) so I’d have to pay full price. I do have the option to appeal, which I may do.

I have had to do several appeals with UHC on types of insulin. Those appeals were very easy compared to some of the others.

You can record the “day 3” issues for a few weeks and provide documentation for the appeal. I had to “use” crappy no-name insulin for 30 days and then explain how it did not work as well as the other insulin, and the appeal when through with no problem. And that was with UHC.

It helps to have an endo on board with you. If you explain the difference you are seeing with Humalog and NovoLog on day 3, your endo should be able to help with the appeal. If not, maybe consider getting an endo with a bit more “fight” in him.

There are a bunch of threads on TuD about day 3 issues if you want to read about them. There are a bunch of these types of threads.

Here are two:

Highs on 3rd day of infusion set

Has anyone else noticed a loss of effectiveness on the 3rd day of using a cartridge/wearing an infusion set. For me, on the 3rd day, I wake up high, bolus, and it seems to have little effect. The only days I see in the 300’s are on the third day. I’ve only just started to notice this, so I wonder if it’s the heat of the summer that’s degrading the insulin in the cartridge. Seems like other people should be experiencing this as well though.

Pod sometimes sluggish and sometimes great. Why?

Some days my pod is sluggish and sometimes it seems to work perfectly. For example, I wake up at 210BG. I haven’t eaten since dinner and tested before bed at which time I was 150 (and bloused for that number). The next day, or 2 or 3, I will wake up at 82 but haven’t changed food, exercise, stress etc. Also, once I start the day high, I need to test and bolus repeatedly and it takes hours to bring that down. Finally I started giving myself a needle shot to bring down my BG if I start the da…