Kaleido Pump

Is anyone else using this new (ish) pump yet ? any thoughts ?

From first impressions it looks like it would be good, its tiny, got a 200ml reservoir, takes any short acting, can be body mount patched or pocketed either with cannula. Does not do stacked bolus's like the Insight but other than this it looks pretty good.

Kim Possible said:

With experience of two different pumps (not Kaleido), I would find the inability to stack bolus to be a problem. What do you do when you are eating a long meal?

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Hi Kim - I may be taking part in a trial so will let you know. The company came back to me a few days ago and confirmed that stacked boluses are not supported. But from experience other pumps and older pumps do not do stacked bolusing, for these you need to look at the pump on what it left for your bolus - cancel it - input a new one and add what was left of the old one. This was common practice for me before I got the Insight, not sure if the bolus wizard works though in this case or if its all manual. You might be able to bolus wizard then add the missed bolus on top before you apply it. But to be fair I only use stacked bolus's maybe once a month or less so for me I could live with it.

You cannot work the pump without the remote, it has no manual control except through the handset (but that's why its so tiny).

It does not support extended or stepped bolus timed doses in less than 30 min blocks, so you can only set 30 - 60 - 90mins etc. The Insight supports 15 min blocks 15 - 30 - 45 - 60mins etc.

Antje77 said:

Looks like you're not the only one interested in this pump, @Sibyl ! You may want to follow this thread
(@Chas C , Sibyl asked about the same question earlier today: https://www.diabetes.co.uk/forum/threads/wannabe-pumper.169071/)

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Thanks hopefully this might also help @Sibyl

As your new @Sibyl if needed let me know and I can seperately explain what a stacked bolus is if needed ;-)

Hi @Sibyl its not clear if the trial I was to take part in is going ahead but I'm still on the "list". I'm now moving to the t:slim in January, this looks pretty good when linked to the Dexcom G6 as it can be set to help manage lows and highs as well as exercise and sleep too.

Good luck with your trial, BTW I've not found another pump (other than the Insight) that does stacked boluses, and although its great I've hardly used it.

Sibyl said:

Well as I’m sure all interested parties in here know, Kaleido had big problems at the start of the year and pulled the pump. My team decided I’d waited long enough and I’m starting on the Omnipod Dash in December.

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Did not know about the issues but my local team did not go ahead with a trial either.