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I recently bought a box of skintac improves sticking of pump bits also kinder on my skin. Also bought a pod template & clear medical tape to make my own pod over patches.

I get a slight rash using omnipod but I recently bought a pack of skintac. This is applied before the canula as its a barrier between skin and cannula. Since using I get nothing it's clean. But I bought it to improve adhesion, it is very much improved. Bought it off ebay but cheaper if bought...

I am using omnipod-5 but I used to get this sensor issue sometimes where it says to wait up to 3 hours. It often took ages. But I found if I restarted it it fixed straight away. I hold down the turn on button and a restart bubble pop up appears. I have to continue holding down then press the...

Many thanks had a close look. I am definitely old category 71yrs as of yesterday. Type1 for 58yrs nearly

Hi juicy Yes I am aware of what you have said. I try to get a high time in range, very often high 90%, just lately its dropped as my body requirements has changed. Going to write a new basal prog today. Thanks very much for your input much appreciated. I know you are very knowledgeable and...

Would also say I recently bought a new mob phone from amazon, amazing low price. A34 or is it t34. Works well with omnipod. Loads cheaper than pay monthly. Less than half price, and easy to set up using a connecting lead

I amon omnipod 5 and don't like it much. Would like to go on T slim. But tubing is no problem it is quite strong and can be disconnected for a shot while, at least when I last used one it could.

Just had my hba1c results of 44.1. Strange as I am sometimes above 10mmol. I am on omnipod 5. But using in manual mode as auto was sending me above 10mmol very often for long periods. I do not hypo think only twice in 2 months slight. My doctors surgery going to phone me as they do not like me...

My basal prog is quite good. The problem is on auto it does not follow it at all. It deliberately lowers it a lot to get equal ratios of bolus/basal. This sends my levels high and it tries to correct by giving tiny boluses which are nowhere near enough resulting in high levels. My targets seem...

What I do now when the new pod canula is inserting is, I push down the pod just slightly but mostly also push the pod in direction of canular end. Seems to help me.

There is only 2 Dsn in hospital, both are part time as they are semi retired. I am not happy about it. But I seem to be doing much better now. I am operating manually in the day and switching over to Auto before bedtime. Best of both worlds. This morning I initially woke at 4am. I was 6.2 on...

That's interesting as I was once offered the T slim. So maybe this is not perfect either. A few years ago I was on a basic tubed pump "Animas" . I liked that pump. It just worked. It did very occasionally do a funny but was easy to put right. I would swap this 5 for that.

Not sure, but there is a target, which it seems to ignore mostly. What it seems to do is gives micro boluses. This happens most of the time like, every 5mins. But they are small like 0, .05, .1, .15. But doesn't go higher than that. Also this adds onto the IOB total. The problem with this is it...

The basal is supposed to self adjust with omni 5. But I havefasted in morning as I ate nothing but sugar went up from 8.6 to 13 ish . Yet the levels on the 5 are supposed to be directed by my target of 6.7.

Just had a long walk. This brought levels down. Then threw away the nice evening meal my wife cooked and ate low carb. Looks like this is the only way with omnipod 5. I was better on injections. The inventer must not be pleased. Because no good for me. What I can't understand is why is it...