Hey Sarah, until today I did not tape my pod down, but I stuck it on my stomach this morning and didn't really secure the edges very well so decided to cover the whole thing with opsite flexifix but most of the time though, I just leave it stuck on with the adhesive on the pod. I do LOVE flexifix tape. I use it around the dexcom sensor and the current one has been on comfortably for almost 2 weeks.
Congrats on getting your pod back up and running again. I truly hope things fall in to place for you. And the past couple of months are quickly a faint, unpleasant memory :)
I think your a1c is too low for what your bg is so I would have it redone at another lab. I always go to a hospital near me whose lab is accurate and pay a copay for it instead of have my endo do it through quest labs who always gets a higher result which doesn't match with my phone bg records average. I'm sorry you're having trouble with all the docs and I hope you find someone good soon.
Congrats, Sarah, hope it goes great! I don't have a clue about pods but any general pumping questions, start a thread and we'll all chime in!
There is an old-school internal medicine paradigm that involves lots of poking and prodding of internal organs. Pretty much wherever there's soft tissue to be poked or prodded or felt - their hands are there. Especially if there was some gland of the endocrine system to be poked or squeezed. Some of the best endos I had as a kid, did this. I had my hypothyroidism diagnosed that way when I was in college (the diagnosis confirmed with a blood test). Of course this was all a couple of decades ago, and the young doc who did that is now an esteemed older lady and the head of the endocrinology department at that institution.
Modern docs, they are boring. Often all they do is look at lab test results. Often no hands-on stuff at all.