Pump start: advice how to optimize transition and successful start

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You may want to search for some older posts from @ClaudandDaye who has a 2 year old with an omnipod and a dexcom.

Here is one topic where he started using pods but there are newer ones where he figured thing out better. Always good to learn from others mistakes.

He hasn’t posted for a while but I may have woken him up by tagging him.

There is a reference to bands 4 life in that post.

http://www.bands4life.net

Bad start.

Today was our transition day. Switching from MDI’s to the Omnipod. I know (it’s been said here many times and it’s logical after losing the long lasting insulin) that the transition is going to be rocky before it’s great. That I understand…so the two spikes over 300 today I was OK with…we corrected and moved on. What I’m frustrated about is that the POD came off! He was wearing shorts and I think that’s maybe what caused it (rubbing against the POD maybe?) Regardless, it was a new POD, new…