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I personally love the Omnipod 5 and am using the Dexcom 6. My consultant wanted to move me to Freestyle Libre when the Dexcom contract expired because of cost. I prefer the Freestyle graphics and size but find Dexcom is more accurate. I looked at my lifestyle and concluded Dexcom is more...

I’ve had airport staff taking me into a separate room to scan my insulin pump on several occasions now, and the airlines want proof that I’m diabetic so they can agree to give me free additional luggage allowance for all the pump stuff, sensors etc. Hence my panic at not being able to find the...

Thanks for your suggestion. I have managed to find the letter and have created a new file and folder so I can find it again. Happy Days!

I had a letter from my diabetes nurse that I could show to any authorities when travelling abroad. Sadly my laptop died and now I can’t find the letter. Does anyone have any suggestions as to where I could find one? Thanks.

Actually, the very next day the alerts started again so I phoned Dexcom. They told me just to replace the sensor, which I did, and everything went back to normal. Dexcom also sent me a replacement sensor, which seems only right. Anyway, it’s good to know that their Customer Services are...

Today everything returned to normal! I have no idea what changed but I’m relieved. I was intending to phone Dexcom this morning to ask for their help. I might even still do that in case it ever happens again.

No, it doesn’t apply to me but thanks for taking the time to make a suggestion.

I have been using Dexcom 6 sensors for the last 18 months and suddenly I am getting alerts for calibration, on a daily basis. How can I stop these requests? I don’t mind calibrating every once in a while, but I draw the line at every day. Has anyone else experienced this and how did you solve...

I have been using the Omnipod 5 now for 18 months and love it. Initially I wasn’t keen on the Dexcom 6, but I have come around to appreciating it. My Diabetes team wanted me to move to the cheaper Libre 2+ but because I swim regularly for an hour I seem to have earned a reprieve. They did say...

Or take them to a pharmacy

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...