I have just got back from skiing for a week. It is the first time with the OmniPod. It's fantastic. I had a bit of trail and error on the first day. Once I had sorted out the temp basal it was a breeze. I ran at minus 45 % for 7 hours of skiing. The only thing I had to remember was to reduce what the PDM wanted to give me at lunchtime. It needed to be cut in half as well. I had one minor issue over 6 days. That was also dealing with large temperature changes. I adjusted when I was over 9mmol/L… Continue

So just a positive post needed. I spoke to Ypsomed about the Pod failures. All good except no real help about the issues. I suggested that we ought to be able to return an entire box when two fail. Anyhow, just had a few days skiing in Europe. Very cold, -15c to -20c. No issues at all! Pod fantastic. CGM got a bit tricky due to body temp at times. But the temp basal drop for a few hours, like 5hrs, was great. No issue with hypos really. Obviously needed sugar at times, but all good. Best I…

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I am sure that I have read about people who have had this problem. I didnt to start with, but now I am about a year or so in - I am getting this fairly regularly - how much do you need to compensate for in terms of Bolusing pre change ?? Anyone ?

I am very lucky on lots of fronts from the diabetic issues that we can all suffer from. I use a Navi CGM and an OmniPod. My Hba1c are 7.5% . However, it would be nice to talk to people who, for all theh wrong reasons, hate this disease. Its not as if we arent dealing with it 95% of the time, but then there are the odd few points when I want to give it to someone else, only for a few hours, but just a bit of time off. thoughts ?