I was put off having a pump by the idea of having to have it attached to my belt with the canula piped from it. Then I was told about the omnipod which operated by bluetooth so the pod which is about the size of a cockroach i stuck to your body , you can swim and shower with it on , the control unit/ blood tester is separate .
I am on animal insulin as I can't tolerate human , and i must admit it is quite difficult to get it right , it is a bit better than injecting . the main thing against is that as i play golf i have been told not to put the pod on my arm as it may be affected by my golf swing , i've tried it on my leg but that didn't work out so I am only left with around my stomach so the sites are getting a bit bad. when i was injecting I used my bottom and as that is a large area I never had any injection site problem.
one of the hospitals I was referred to said i had to sign a contract for a minimum of 3 years so I couldn't try it out but they refused to do one with animal insulin , when I found a hospital that would do animal insulin they said no problem with trying one and giving it back if it didn't work out - as the doctor said they always have a waiting list so would just give it to someone else
