Ok, have no idea where my discussion went LOL
With summer starting up, and being new to the Pods, are there any tricks in getting them to adhere when swimming? We have our son enrolled in swim lessons for three weeks, then he'll be going to diabetes camp for 3 weeks, as well as just every day swimming in our pool. Insulet says that the adhesive is rated to stand up to 30 minutes without issue but i KNOW he's going to exceed that
Any ideas or tricks that have worked for anyone?
I would like to know as well how well the pod stays on. I like to kayak, and I’m afraid it will loosen because we’re on the water for more than a half hour,.
My son has worn his in the pool for hours with no problem, but we are experimenting with things with his dexcom which is nowhere near as good at sticking to him for some reason. Right now we are using Tegaderm, and I’m planning to get some Opsite Flexifix. We cut the tape to go just over the adhesive and it seems to have lasted in the pool today. The other thing I’ve heard works well is Skin Tac (not Skin Prep) but we haven’t tried it yet.
My girls swim almost every day and for hours at a time. We haven’t had any problems with the pod coming off at all.
My teen daughter spends HOURS in the pool or ocean, and we have had problems with pods coming off. Once, she didn’t even realize the pod had come off – I noticed it floating in the pool!! She’s also had friends knock them off when they’re roughhousing, and once she knocked it off getting into a tube. On really hot days, we’ve found that even excess sweating can loosen the adhesive enough for it to lift.
We use IV prep underneath her pods, and have tried stronger adhesives, but she’s got sensitive skin, so we can’t use them. What does work fairly well for us is a relatively inexpensive tape from 3M called micropore. I think it’s $15 for 6 rolls, and that’s lasted us almost 3 years.
I have worn my pod to water parks twice and lost it both times around 3PM (after about 5 hours of water slides and rides). I haven’t yet found a good solution but I do find that when I’m in the water park I use much less insulin so after I lose the pod I check my sugars ever hour or so and usually take a humalog shot around dinner time and find my sugars stay well enough in control until the end of the day. Not a good long term solution but just an observation.
I think its a different story for everyone here…I’ve heard many can go for hours with no problem (and I am one of those, unless serious horsplay is involved (per Serena). But, ieven then, someone should be supervising and when horsplay starts the protocol to end it is "Someone could lose a POD that way!!! knock it off!!!) (actually, not “Knock it off” jsut “stop it!!”)
Do you use the micropore tape to cover the Pod or is it used under the Pod, between the skin and the adhesive? I haven’t heard of the micropore tape and anyone using it. If you could explain that would be great.
I have a 7 year old gal, Type 1, who is using the OmniPod and I need to have solutions should the Pod come off this summer. She is a water rat and spends her day in and out of our backyard pool.
Thanks.
“WATCH YOUR POD!!!” is one of the most commonly heard phrases around our household the last three months 
We use it over the pod. I recently read someone saying you’re not supposed to tape over the pod, but my daughter’s endo actually recommended IV3000 (which is SOOOO expensive). I found micropore looking for a cheaper solution. I’ve ordered it from American Diabetes Wholesale (I think that’s their name) online. We’ve used both the clear one and the one for sensitive skin. The clear one provides more adhesive, but the sensitive skin one is more breathable. My daughter prefers the clear one though. We put one strip horizontally and one vertically on the outside of the pod so it extends past the pod’s adhesive.
Yes, a good swim definitely keeps the blood sugars down. The day we found the floating pod, her blood sugar was only 100 when we tested, and an hour later was only 110. But, I certainly don’t want to lose a pod a day! 
LOL…in our home its “YOU WATCH YPIUR POD…MISTER!!!” iT is essential that one practices POD safety at all times.
LOL – gotta love the D language. My daughter’s friends think it’s hilarious when I ask her why she’s so high
My In Laws love it too…when I’m a little glassy eyed (for whatever reason) and my wife asks…“honey, Are you Hight again?”
I use Skin tac at each pod change and have not lost a pod in the water, yet. I am more likely to have it slip off when I am sweaty. I always carry a roll of 3M Nexcare tape…buy it at the drug store. If I catch it when it has just pulled off on one side, I can tape it down. I have never had the tape pull off by itself.
I haven’t had any problems with them coming off… i can swim every day, and STILL have trouble getting it off on the third day. I think i’m also lucky too…
I’ve found that using alcohol swabs instead of IV prep pads (the BD brand in particular. White box with green stripes) helps keep the pod on nice and tight no matter what. Some people also have luck with different soaps.
My son just got out of the pool. We use skintac when placing a pod. The adhesive will go now where w/that stuff… the only problem we have is that if he bumps the pod really hard on something like an inter tube or slide the pod itself tends to start to pull off of the andhesive backing. He is a rough 16 yr. old who forgets it is there sometime! We use unisolve to get the pods off because skintac is really holds it on strong! He pulled the pod part off today… the canula is still in so we just slapped on some medical tape to hold it down for now… (he used to use duct tape!) He was in the water for maybe… 2 hrs today and the adheisive was fine…just knocked the pod some. Now he is off to bike a while! So glad he can suspend the basal for a bit or he’d go low after all he has done.
I swim, waterski, kiteboard… at least for me, the pod isnt going anywhere… when doing anything particularly athletic in the water, I wear a neoprene wet-top which holdt the pod in place through HUGE waterski crashes… I highly doubt your son will be putting that much strain on the pods!
good luck!