If your pump slides off your pants when you get up, and dangles down to the floor and bobs up and down like a yo-yo and spins around really fast like a top because of the force of it falling off of your pants will that cause any damage to the pump or any leakage or over delivery Etc. Has this ever happened to anyone?
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Nope, the Tandem doesn’t work off of a syringe type design and even if it did, I doubt that dropping it would cause any accidental over delivery. My pump has dropped off of my waistband numerous times (thanks poorly designed clip) and haven’t ever had any issues.
If the pump were to hit the floor hard enough and in such a way that it was visibly damaged then it would more likely be something you could see or the pump obviously not working correctly after the drop.
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I have that happen all of the time due to that clip. But one time it happened I immediately got a malfunction error and the pump had to be replaced. Tandem
chalked it up to a coincidence.
I call it the pump-bungy-plunge and it happens probably once or twice a week. I keep the pump in a pants pocket so that’s understandable. It falls out or, clumsily, I drop it.
I also don’t keep it in its case. Just the pump. It’s hit the floor once or twice. But usually dangles just above the floor.
No ill effects that I’ve noted. It’s never pulled the infusion out that way either (other ways, however — hello door handle?!?).
Mine has dangled more than a few times. I have it in a little pouch with a zipper on a softie belt. But I guess sometimes I forgot the zipper wasn’t closed or whatever. No damage, no insulin was ever bolused or anything like that. I have even dropped some of my pumps on the floor because of that because I guess it was lower down on my body and the pump was OK. But I do now have a little silicone case around the pump just in case.
The good thing about my true steel insets is they could not come out that way because there are two parts and it would only put pressure on the part where the tubing clicks in.
I am amazed that people can put their pump in their pocket and it doesn’t fall out because I tried that when I first got my pump and it just kept falling out which is why I always have it on my waist in the pouch now. Also I do not think having in your pocket is safe especially if you forget to turn off the top button because it could end up bolusing etc.
I tie mine to my Velcro headband and use bungee cords to hold it in place. I have neck injuries but no pump issues.
When I sleep naked and have to get up I just let it hang there. I use 23” tubing so it never hits the floor.
If having that happen would damage the pump, mine would be dead by now.
It’s funny though when I get up I automatically grab for it out of habit so it won’t swing and hit me in my shin.
It’s like when I got my first automatic car, I kept trying to shift it with a shift that wasn’t there.
I sleep better now with a waist pouch that I got from my tandem supplies company. It also lessens my fear that I will wake up having strangled myself.
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I used to have that problem as well as tubing getting caught on bathroom drawer knobs. Switched to omnipod 3 years ago and never have those issues anymore.