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<blockquote data-quote="catapillar" data-source="post: 1514304" data-attributes="member: 32394"><p>Most trusts will ask anyone with a pump to make sure it's insured. Check with your contents insurance that it can be added and what the deal would be if damaged during sport. Or there's an insulin pump insurance company for about £7.50 a month.</p><p></p><p>I've used both an omnipod and a Medtronic 640. I really loved my omnipod, I'm not overly enamoured with the Medtronic. I think both have pluses and minuses for sport. With the Medtronic you've, obviously, got to be carrying round the pump with you, so you need to figure out a comfortable way to be carrying it round when playing. There's lots of pump belts around which should make that easy. With an omnipod you aren't carrying anything around, it's just stuck on so you don't need to think about it. Although you might need to think about where to site it so it's ok for sport, mine didn't much like being on my legs when I went for a run, and it fared better in my tummy if out in really cold weather - the pods can get too cold to work. Then the Medtronic, if you have the sensors, has a predictive low suspend feature where if it thinks you're going to hypo it will suspend insulin delivery - I think this works best for exercise.</p><p></p><p>If you're thinking about an omnipod do ask to trial a dummy omnipod to see if you're happy with a pod stuck to you. And you should really ask the DSN to hold/touch/poke/press the buttons of/have a general fiddle with all of the pumps that you have to choose from. That should be the thing that helps you most in making the choice.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="catapillar, post: 1514304, member: 32394"] Most trusts will ask anyone with a pump to make sure it's insured. Check with your contents insurance that it can be added and what the deal would be if damaged during sport. Or there's an insulin pump insurance company for about £7.50 a month. I've used both an omnipod and a Medtronic 640. I really loved my omnipod, I'm not overly enamoured with the Medtronic. I think both have pluses and minuses for sport. With the Medtronic you've, obviously, got to be carrying round the pump with you, so you need to figure out a comfortable way to be carrying it round when playing. There's lots of pump belts around which should make that easy. With an omnipod you aren't carrying anything around, it's just stuck on so you don't need to think about it. Although you might need to think about where to site it so it's ok for sport, mine didn't much like being on my legs when I went for a run, and it fared better in my tummy if out in really cold weather - the pods can get too cold to work. Then the Medtronic, if you have the sensors, has a predictive low suspend feature where if it thinks you're going to hypo it will suspend insulin delivery - I think this works best for exercise. If you're thinking about an omnipod do ask to trial a dummy omnipod to see if you're happy with a pod stuck to you. And you should really ask the DSN to hold/touch/poke/press the buttons of/have a general fiddle with all of the pumps that you have to choose from. That should be the thing that helps you most in making the choice. [/QUOTE]
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