The new PDM has a feature that I find a bit annoying. It beeps 2 hours after a pod change to ask you to check your blood sugar to make sure the cannula is properly inserted. It will keep beeping until I read the message and hit OK. If I change my pod right before bed time, the PDM wakes everybody up 2 hours later. I called Insulet and was told that there's no way to turn this feature off and it cannot be set to vibrate. So, my question is: Does anybody know how I can soundproof the PDM so I can't hear the beeping? Wrap it in special foam, maybe? I've tried boxes, towels, old pillows... Putting it in another room is not an option (if we're tent camping, for example, or if it's in my purse and I'm in a meeting or in church...). I know this sounds like a silly question but it would really be helpful for me. Thanks in advance! :-)
I’m pretty sure that my alerts are all set to vibrate, except the pod expiration. I’m changing my pod today so I’ll see if it beeps after two hours. I usually test within that window because I’m paranoid about occlusions an still getting used to it. I know that the PDM vibrates at that two hour mark, but I don’t think the pod beeps. I’ll let you know.
Thank you!
I thought I read in the user manual that you can make that notice a "vibrate" instead of beep...now you have me curious
Let us know Niclan
You'd think with "improvements" they'd mean less annoying. This is not very nice of them. If I needed a warning, it'd be great. But I can control my own life and don't need them doing it for me without my consent. They'll get a comment from me on this one.
I have an old PDM....but to turn that off on the old one is....settings>system setup>alerts/reminders>bolus reminders: Off.
Yeah I never had that one on with my old PDM...oh yeah..still waiting for the call they promised me "within 24 hrs" ..called tuesday at 3:30 pm...
Scott - I think that we need to be prepared for the new pdm to "help" us out a lot! There are significantly more confirmation screens (thank you, FDA). My reps said that it will be like getting an entirely different system from the current one. Yes, I want smaller pods and the new IOB features, but I'm not sure that I'm looking forward to all of the other "improvements". Time will tell!
Basically when I talked to Peter Devlin...he tried to use that as the reason they haven't shipped new PDMS to existing. He said "oh we have to print up training material for the people transitioning"
My point to him was that ALL of that info is available on the website...
How about removing the batteries from the PDM?
You will have to reset the date/time if you leave them out for more than 2 hours, but that seems a small cost compared to disturbed sleep, or a disrupted meeting, or court case.
John Bowler
With the old pods, if they failed with a constant beep as some did in the past Insulet recommened putting them in the freezer. I had one that did that, and it worked at making the pod silent. I wonder if you could do that with the PDM??? Just a funny though, not something I'd really do...
Definitely NO beeping, but the PDM did vibrate.
My settings are set to vibrate only, with the exception of the pod expiration. My tech said you cannot change that alert, but you can change the number of hours before the pod expires when it actually will beep. For me, it's 2 hours before the pod expires and then the hour the pod is suppose to expire (knowing that you have an extra 8 hours.)
I thought about doing that but I'm afraid I might lose the data and the settings... at least that's what Insulet keeps telling me.
Trust me! I thought about that when the PDM started beeping at 1:00 AM! :-D
Well folks, I changed my pod a day earlier. I was getting very curious. I'm happy to say that yes, the "check your blood sugar alert" after a pod change CAN be set to vibrate. The Insulet person told me repeatedly that no, this couldn't be set to vibrate, no, no, no, no... absolutely NOT. I'm glad I asked here. I always get good answers. Thank you very much everybody!
Sweet dreams! 
That's not what the instructions say, and Insulet did change the instructions from saying that "data in the memory is at risk" (a statement that is particularly unhelpful) to "date and time is at risk" (a statement that reminds me of Dr Who.)
So I deduce that data is no longer "at risk", at least with the new PDMs.
I also have a spare old PDM at hand, so I can trivially program some random "data" pull the batteries, and see what happens, but that will take me some time as I'm quite busy at present...
John Bowler