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I invariably keep mine at the top of my thighs, travelling across my stomach area and to the other leg. At first I found myself catching the pod but that’s fairly rare now and I have never ripped one off. That might be luck rather than anything else! Sorry, I don’t have any great tips, for me it...

I hope it doesn’t happen again either! Many thanks for taking the time to try and help. I hope you can find a way to give your arms a rest too.

Thanks for your response. I had no difficulty on Sunday connecting the sensor to the PDM. My problem arose today, so [emoji638] days later, when the PDM decided it couldn’t find the sensor. Considering I was sitting down right next to it, I was more than worried. It took over an hour to...

Yes, that’s exactly what I’m using right now. Any tips you can give me will be gratefully appreciated.

Last weekend, at the behest of my consultant, I moved from Dexcom 6 to Libre 2+. I’d been told I would only get readings on the reader, not on my phone but today the reader was searching for the sensor for over an hour before it settled down. The sensor is next to the pump, so it’s not a...

There’s clearly a lot of training needed by people dealing with diabetics. I remember doing a [emoji637]st Aid course and the trainer saying imagine you found (me) lying unconscious in town and you found something in my bag to say I was a diabetic, what would you do? The others all said give...

Sorry, I don’t have a link, it’s something that was discussed at a research meeting last week. Perhaps where you live the care home staff managers have a more pragmatic and sensitive approach to this treatment? I’m delighted to hear that 3 people in your dad’s care home still have CGMs and at...

I was at a research meeting last week and 2 people brought it up. One was the researcher and the other is a member of various diabetes forums. The researcher had visited care homes and asked staff there about diabetic residents and was told none had CGMs or pumps any longer. The other person is...

Did you know that if you have to go into a care or nursing home you will have your CGM and insulin pump taken away from you because their staff don’t have the training to handle either of these? Even if you stay at home and have a District Nurse visit you, the chances of retaining your CGM/pump...

It’s something to do with phone manufacturers not actually wanting to have their equipment considered as medical devices, which I fully understand. However, these same manufacturers are prepared to license such use on one continent but not another, which begs a whole series of other questions...

I didn’t want to be bothered with tubing as I am pretty certain I would have ripped it out, in much the same way as I was forever knocking my Freestyle Libre off my arm. Clumsy! I’m very happy with the Omnipod [emoji6[emoji640][emoji637]] and Dexcom and have only once managed to dislodge the...

I have used both Fiasp and Lyumjev with my Omnipod [emoji6[emoji640][emoji637]] as my diabetes nurse phoned all [emoji639] companies to find out if they would work or not. As Nicola M said, it was all simply because they hadn’t been tested. I was fine with Fiasp but Lyumjev stung a lot so I went...

I too use Dexcom and have never had any problems. I know my consultant is thinking of changing everyone to FS Libre 2+ so if anyone has any experience there it would be helpful.

Hi AnimateRach. Great question. My consultant asked why I wanted a pump now (I’d rejected one years ago because they were so clumsy and uninspiring) and what I hoped to get from it that I currently didn’t achieve. I mentioned other health issues (arthritis in my hands) and he understood where I...