PattiEvans
Well-Known Member
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
- Pronouns
- She/Her
Hi - hope some other pod users can answer.
I've only been on the pod since 19 January, so rather new to me. Yesterday morning I changed the pod. It seemed fine... I went out for lunch in town and it worked just normally when I had lunch. I spent the afternoon in town with my friend and didn't get home until 5:45. At 6:30 a friend who lives abroad phoned on a video call and hubby and I chatted to him until about 8pm. At that point I went into the kitchen to prepare dinner. It took longer than expected as it was a mushroom risotto and with all the soaking of the dried mushrooms, cleaning the fresh ones, chopping and stirring it was gone 9pm when I got it on the table. I went to bolus and discovered that the PDM wouldn't connect to the pod. After some switching on and off, and fiddling I rang the helpline who advised me to do this and that and eventually told me to change the pod. The very helpful guy on the phone said he'd guide me through the process (though I can do it myself by now) but as I saidto him, the insulin was in the fridge and I'd need to get it up to room temp before attempting to fill the syringe or it'd be full of bubbles - I mention here that I find filling the syringe rather stressful as I don't seem to have enough hands or fingers! So he said to ring back when the insulin was ready.
So I had about 3 or 4 forkfuls of risotto and no insulin.. and that was my dinner. When I'd warmed the insulin up a bit under my arm and filled the syringe I rang back and a different guy guided me through the process successfully, or so I thought. I didn't realise at the time that of course if the PDM wasn't talking to the pod, the pod was not deactivated. By the time all was done it was nearly 11pm and I sat down to watch some TV and try to relax a bit.
At approx 1:30 just as we were about to turn the TV off and go to bed there was this god-awful LOUD alarm that terrified us. We ran round trying to switch off the wired in smoke alarms, inspected the Carbon Monoxide monitor and racked our brains where this terrible screeching was coming from. Eventually hubby realised it was the discarded pod which I'd put at the bottom of the stairs to take up and put into it's recycling box. Barely able to think for the appalling racket I rang tech support again. Followed a somewhat ludicrous conversation with a 3rd chap who was telling us to stick a paper-clip or earring back into a hole we couldn't find for the life of us. It wasn't helping that I could hardly hear him. Eventually we realised that we had to take the sticky adhesive layer off and then find the hole - which was anything but obvious. Finally we got the damn thing silenced.
I'm just wondering whether others have had this and how often do they find pods failing? It occurred to me that had it happened at lunchtime I'd have been stuck and would have had to go home.... so yes, carry a spare pod, but that means also carrying an insulin vial. What do others do? It's made me rather apprehensive and nervous about going out.
I've only been on the pod since 19 January, so rather new to me. Yesterday morning I changed the pod. It seemed fine... I went out for lunch in town and it worked just normally when I had lunch. I spent the afternoon in town with my friend and didn't get home until 5:45. At 6:30 a friend who lives abroad phoned on a video call and hubby and I chatted to him until about 8pm. At that point I went into the kitchen to prepare dinner. It took longer than expected as it was a mushroom risotto and with all the soaking of the dried mushrooms, cleaning the fresh ones, chopping and stirring it was gone 9pm when I got it on the table. I went to bolus and discovered that the PDM wouldn't connect to the pod. After some switching on and off, and fiddling I rang the helpline who advised me to do this and that and eventually told me to change the pod. The very helpful guy on the phone said he'd guide me through the process (though I can do it myself by now) but as I saidto him, the insulin was in the fridge and I'd need to get it up to room temp before attempting to fill the syringe or it'd be full of bubbles - I mention here that I find filling the syringe rather stressful as I don't seem to have enough hands or fingers! So he said to ring back when the insulin was ready.
So I had about 3 or 4 forkfuls of risotto and no insulin.. and that was my dinner. When I'd warmed the insulin up a bit under my arm and filled the syringe I rang back and a different guy guided me through the process successfully, or so I thought. I didn't realise at the time that of course if the PDM wasn't talking to the pod, the pod was not deactivated. By the time all was done it was nearly 11pm and I sat down to watch some TV and try to relax a bit.
At approx 1:30 just as we were about to turn the TV off and go to bed there was this god-awful LOUD alarm that terrified us. We ran round trying to switch off the wired in smoke alarms, inspected the Carbon Monoxide monitor and racked our brains where this terrible screeching was coming from. Eventually hubby realised it was the discarded pod which I'd put at the bottom of the stairs to take up and put into it's recycling box. Barely able to think for the appalling racket I rang tech support again. Followed a somewhat ludicrous conversation with a 3rd chap who was telling us to stick a paper-clip or earring back into a hole we couldn't find for the life of us. It wasn't helping that I could hardly hear him. Eventually we realised that we had to take the sticky adhesive layer off and then find the hole - which was anything but obvious. Finally we got the damn thing silenced.
I'm just wondering whether others have had this and how often do they find pods failing? It occurred to me that had it happened at lunchtime I'd have been stuck and would have had to go home.... so yes, carry a spare pod, but that means also carrying an insulin vial. What do others do? It's made me rather apprehensive and nervous about going out.
