Cozmo no more :( tired of the pump anyone?

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Permalink Reply by Sandy Palmer on April 18, 2009 at 8:55pm

I'm also going to swap over to the Pod. The Cozmo has been robbing my last nerve with all the allerts. :o) Good luck

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Permalink Reply by MU on April 20, 2009 at 9:01pm

I know how you feel with people commenting on "what's that?" and having to explain what the pump is. I have had my Cozmo for about 6 years now, but have recently started tucking it away on the inside of my clothes instead of wearing it on a belt clip. I feel like my pump is alot safer and more discreet if it's tucked in a sock or a pocket where nooone know's its there but me. Just an idea while you're exploring other options :) Best of luck to you.

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Permalink Reply by MelissaBL on April 21, 2009 at 9:43pm

I wasn't ready to consider switching again. There are features of the other pumps I'm not particularly crazy about and it took me two months to settle on buying a Cozmo (last summer) after my last Minimed pump warranty expired. I like all the other ones about equally and now I just don't want to go through the shopping process again. To take advantage of all the really great switching deals, we need to switch by mid-July. I will still have three years left on my warranty, so I think I'll stick it out until the other companies tweak their products a bit. I want to see what everyone else comes out with over the rest of my warranty. I almost went with Animas then went Cozmo then went Omnipod then back to Cozmo. I hate having a bunch of options when none of them "feels" right.

Carly, I teach high school so I know it's hard. Hey, it's hard enough for me when I am not out to impress anyone and still have to field all those questions. Just today, one colleague (male) pointed out something slipping out of my bra into my neckline (it was my Cozmo - shirt didn't fit right and I wasn't wearing the right holder for the pump). And then one of my 9th graders and then later a different male colleague asked me about the "thing" hanging out of my shirt sleeve (my CGMS transmitter - today was the first day all school year I've worn short sleeves and my Navigator transmitter was half-visible along the short sleeve hem). I know it's hard to be a teen and deal with it, but I've known some amazing young women that have rocked their pumps (myself and some of my students, for instance). Sorry about your experience. I think your coach is wrong to ask that of you.

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Permalink Reply by MelissaBL on August 8, 2009 at 6:30am

Carly, I ended up switching to the Omnipod in May and have been very happy with it.

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Permalink Reply by Allen on August 5, 2009 at 5:23pm

Well unless the Cozmo pump dies you can still use it. I plan on trying to find a used one for another backup even though I am on an Animas now. The Cozmo is SO much better. The Animas is missing a lot of the features I took for granted after using the Cozmo and a lot of the way it works gets on my nerves. :)

Missing from Animas Ping:
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No hypo manager
Doesn't remember last "fill canula" amount
When you change the battery you have to rewind and reload the reservoir
Status Menus very hard to read (confusing)
Gives you the suggested insulin amount to use but makes you then manually enter it from zero. How stupid!

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Permalink Reply by Vijay on August 8, 2009 at 5:32am

There were many features of Cozemore that I loved and I was sorry to see it go. I checked out both Medtronic (still in 20th century) and Animas (fancy and has good features) and chose Animas. Neither compares well to Cozemore. Animas has lot of idiocentric features and too many programming flaws to describe here. I have learned to fool the pump to get over some of these but others are not so easy to overlook. I practically ignore the meter. It is too heavy and too big to carry anywhere and One Touch testing strips require too much blood. So I use Free Style and use the pump (lierally deceive it )to enter and record my BS readings. Who wants to go through the mannual entry process thru the software on the computer when I take 6 to 7 readings a day. I hope they listen to the pumpers to rework the programming. The help staff is also not too well versed with the pump. They often give confusing and some times even wrong answers. I have a very long list of suggestions for the programmers. The pump is good but could be, should be, much better. After all it comes from JNJ a leading company.

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Permalink Reply by Robin on September 2, 2009 at 4:43pm

I too am going through the "what should I switch to" thing, finding out that I have a limited time left with my Cozmo. It took me a long time to decide to use a pump for better control, and two years later I found out it was being discontinued.

That umpire was out of line. I had a similar instance at a restaurant when I was still doing shots. I was sitting in a booth and checked my BG and readied my shot. I very discreetly raised my shirt a tiny bit so I could do the shot in my stomach, and a lady at the table next to where I was said very loudly "Why do you have to do that in PUBLIC?" It took me a second, but then I said "you know, people are allowed to smoke in this restaurant, and that kills them. I need insulin, and this little shot might save my life. What is YOUR problem?" Shut her up.

Does any body know if any of the other pumps have the glucose meter that you can just attach to it like the deltec? That is so handy not to have to transfer numbers or anything. My daughter has a friend on the Omnipod and I guess she loves it.

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Permalink Reply by MelissaBL on September 2, 2009 at 6:20pm

The Omnipod has the built in freestyle meter, the Minimed Paradigm has the One Touch Link that sends the meter reading to the pump via radio frequency, and the Animas Ping has the One Touch Ping which does the same thing as the Minimed but also serves as a remote device for controlling the pump. But no, none of the others actually has the attachable meter. I switched from Minimed to Cozmo to Omnipod myself.

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Permalink Reply by Carly! on September 8, 2009 at 8:36am

I go to my endo on the 28th, and last time i talked to them about the pod, they seemed unsure. Now that the newer model is out, i'll be heart broken if i cant get it!
Thanks for the advice, everyone especially! Its helped alot! :)

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Permalink Reply by Robin on September 14, 2009 at 6:07pm

Best of luck Carly! Let us know how it turns out and how you like the omnipod.

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