Extremely frustrated with Omnipod
I have been using the Omnipod for a little over a month now. It was wonderful at first. Up until the last 10 days anyway. Now I have been having extremely high blood sugars and am having a very difficult time getting them to come down.
I have not been ill, haven't changed my eating habits yet I have had to increase my basal dosages and also change my carb to insulin ratios to increase insulin at meals. Even this has not helped bring me closer to my target range. Just yesterday in the early afternoon my blood sugar was 487! I have not seen that high of a reading since I was diagnosed 5 years ago. Then again today after lunch, took my bolus 10 minutes prior to eating as usual, covered all carbs accordingly and still had a blood sugar of 409 two hours post meal.
I have had two occlusions, three pods simply fail without reason and have lost a ton of insulin. My PDM seems to be working just fine, haven't seen any issues with that. So I don't understand all this.
Does anyone have any suggestions for me? I called my Diabetes Educator and she just suggested I call Insulet. Who told me they do not replace insulin nor will they replace pods for occlusions. I haven't called them about the three pods failing without reason yet, I assume they will at least replace those. I saved them for reference of the lot #'s for when I do call. But what should I do in the meantime? I have had to take needle shots just to bring my blood sugar down from those ridiculously high numbers already. Considering going back to MDI.........not really wanting to though. :(
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Permalink Reply by Christine on -
I was told by the people from omni pod that you need to fill the pod with 85 units ( the min fill line on the syringe) or the pod my not prime. I use about 75-80 units pre pod so I fill just over the 85 mark incase i need a little extra due to unplanned corrections.
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Permalink Reply by FHS on -
Oo, haven't checked back here in a few days but thank you Schmutz and Christine for the info!
I'm sooo ready to start the pod Schmutz. I should hear back this week from my insurance company. Thanks for the help! -
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Permalink Reply by peruvianpasohi on -
The unit needs a minimum of 80 units. If that is still too much, you can get the saline solution to mix your U100 down, but of course, you will need to remember to "dose" at 2x the rate it shows, if you are mixing 1:1 saline to insulin. Also, you can remove the excess when you deactivate the pod, but I would not recommend doing this more than every other time, as the insulin will be in the pod for 6-7 days, if you put it with new on the second pod.
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Permalink Reply by Kim on -
I had the same problem you did. They ended up replacing my PDM and my pods that had occluded. Since they replaced my PDM my sugar levels have gone down a lot. I had only had my PDM for less than 90 days.
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