I have just received my new pdm, and canot wait to get started on smaller pods! While I await my shipment of small pods (yippee!), I am curios, do you notice a difference with the smaller pod? What things do I have to look forward to loving???
I received my shipment yesterday from Insulet,which includes the new PDM. I can’t wait to use the new pods, but we are going away for 6 weeks and I’m reluctant to start them. I really wasn’t excited about the new pods till I saw them!!!
For me, I think each of the 7 or 8 new pods from my first box have all functioned perfectly after the pod change-NO POST CHANGE HIGHS! I was told that they had fixed the circuity problem that was leading to post change highs. That's a big difference for me.
Except, the 1st pod I took out to change this morning had no needle in the syringe; in 5 years that's the first time that has happened.
I hadn’t heard about fixing the cause of the post pod change highs-that is my only complaint with the pod-great news!!!
Yes! Wow! Huge news. I've received the cute little pods, just waiting on the PDM from Insulet.
I started with the new system and never had the old pods or pdm. One thing they changed is the bolus calculator and insulin on board. The new one includes all insulin whether from bolus or correction in to the calculation for IOB the old one did not do this. I have not experienced any post pod change highs so I'll count myself as very lucky.
I love:
Under the basal settings it lists 'total daily basal units' so I can compare basal settings without calculating.
Much smaller and I can try new locations.
I agree with Annecy! No Post Change Highs is big!!
post change highs are better. I'm also super excited about being able to put the pod places where it was too bulky before. I'm using the top of my thigh because the sides of my thighs are blown out from years of injections and I'm wearing jeans comfortably. very cool!
Just go the pdm today. Was easy to set it up. He is waiting till his current pod dies to put a new one on. But the size is way way smaller than it seems in pictures! Can’t wait to see how that difference helps him in his daily life.
I was amazed at how much smaller the new pods are... the pictures just didn't do it justice. I also haven't had any post change highs with the new pods, had them almost every time w/ the old pods. Working through my second box of the new ones and haven't had any problems ::knock wood:: :)
The size of the new pods is just wonderful. I'm thrilled, but still frustrated that it took the FDA so dang long to approve them.
I'm on my third new pod now. The first two were issue free, in general, though I did notice a couple of quirks that make the new pods functionally different from the old pod.
The first thing seems to be more sensitivity to heat for the insulin. I sat in a Jacuzzi for around an hour and experienced BG spikes into the 200s a few hours later. Seems consistence with the insulin being heat shocked, but not completely destroyed by the 100+ degree water bath.
Also, I purposefully chose a site with high sensitivity to insulin and a site with low sensitivity for my first two pods. It looks like sensitivity will be a bit different from site to site, but it's going to take a lot more time to know or sure.
Finally, the post-change spike is lessened, a lot, which is fantastic, but it doesn't seem to be eliminated completely for me I still have to bolus a bit after a change, but nit nearly as much as before.
So, overall, I don't think it's going to be a very steep learning curve for the new pod, but there will be one.
At thus point, I'm as pleased as could be expected with the change.
Hi FHS,
I just got the new Pods. On the old pods I have consistently taken a 1 unit bolus as soon as I changed pods. Think I will need to continue this? I am going to be switching Thursday night and I was planning to shoot a 1 unit bolus as I alway have on the switch. Let you know how it goes in 48 hours.
Hi David,
Grats and best of luck!
I did my first pod change with my typical post change bolus of 1 unit. I went way low and spent a good amount of time chasing hypos until I finally stabilized. That was followed by a second pod change where I halved the dose and went way high after the first post change meal. Of course, this is all complicated by the fact that my sites have different sensitivities.
Not exactly and exact science, but my feeling is a lower pod change dose, or maybe none at all, is typical for me. YMMV.
I got a call last night from my supplier, Liberty Medical, and they will be sending my new pods on Sept. 1 - Can't wait!!!
I am down to 1 old pod.....STILL waiting for my new PDM.....getting nervous.
They sent me my starter kid first, new PDM plus 10 pods. I called in to find out about the remainder of my 90 day supply and I was told that those would be shipping out within the week. 2 weeks later and nothing, so I called back yesterday and was told they would be shipping out today.
Sounds like they are just being pounded right now. The good news is that I was able to get through on the customer care line both times I called in without having to leave a message.
I'm on my third new pod and have done my normal .8 unit bolus right after changing with all three. I'm not noticing any differences between the new and old pods in this regard as others have. It will just take a bit of trial and error to get it figured out.
Talk about making diabetes a SMALLER part of your life! I am 1.5 weeks and 6 pods into the new pod and I LOVE IT! I am thrilled with how much less noticeable the smaller pod is! I don't feel like I have a strange growth wobbling on my arm, or pushing into my back when I sit in my car! It is so lightweight, I really do forget I have it on!
I have had some issues with pod alarms, but they are being replaced, so other than an inconvenience, nothing to get upset about and throw in the towel!. (yes, 6 pods in 9 days is double my average)
Has anyone noticed that it seems hard to get all the air bubbles out of the new syringe before filling the pod? I have had some weird unexplainable highs that come, and go - so they aren't site related, and I am wondering if it could be air bubbles. I do notice them in the syringe, and cannot get rid of them.
I know there will be growing pains with the start of this, just as I had 4 years ago when I first started omnipod. To pinch or not to pinch.... room temp. insulin, not cold... I anticipate these issues, and the pod alarms to get straightened out as we continue on the journey.
I’ve noticed the bubbles too. I’ve found it helps if I overdraw into the syringe, get all the bubbles out that i can and inject into the pod slowlytil it beeps. the bubbles stay in the unused portion in the syringe and I inject it back into the bottle