Comments on: OmniPod “Softens the Switch” from Cozmo

By: Jimbo205

Jimbo205 — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 00:42:21 +0000

You can take my Cozmo and CozMonitor from me when I am cold and dead. I am so pissed that no other company offered to purchase this line from Deltec.
I learned that my warrantee expired ONE DAY before Deltec told us they were closing shop.
People that I depended upon at Deltec lost their jobs because the other companies were too stupid to pick it up.
I don’t need a stupid warrantee.
I’ll use my Deltec Cozmo until the damn thing stops working.

After all, how hard is it to go back to shots anyway?

I hope whatever you all have works for you.

By: Katrina

Katrina — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 01:03:56 +0000

Actually, Medtronic’s swap out program is $0 to switch over. You can also get money off of their continuous glucose monitor.
If you still have 3 years (or whatever) on your cozmo it will carry over to the medtronic pump. Just go to their website and call the number and talk to someone.

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Mon, 25 May 2009 22:20:28 +0000

[...] 0.0/5 (0 votes cast) This article was found on DiabetesMine: the all things diabetes blog. Click here to visit the full article on the original website.Insulet Corp., makers of the OmniPod tubeless insulin pump system, is now also offering a low-cost [...]

By: Carrie

Carrie — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 20:19:28 +0000

I just made the switch from the Cozmo to OmniPod. I LOVE the pod. But I’m not so happy about the PDM. No strings is great great great!!! I feel more mobile, more flexible and just downright giddy to be rid of the tubing. The PDM on the other hand… seems really 1980’s. I hear rumors of a Gen 2 coming out soon… but I’m hoping more to incorporate my cell phone. Wouldn’t that just be so sweet! I had zero problems with the conversion, and this is the first I’ve heard of the IOB problem. Thanks for sharing — and what is the 30/30/30/10 rule?

By: Don

Don — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 13:49:24 +0000

I’m with Jacey re IOB. I’ve always felt typical pumps’ IOB calculation to be barely useful info as I consider any remaining meal bolus to be “spoken for” by any remaining digestion. All I want is for a pump to display when my last bolus occurred in case I have a high reading and I need to determine whether it is due to a normal post-meal spike or due to insufficient meal bolus for which I should take a correction bolus. In any case, meal bolus IOB is simple for me to track in my head using a 30/30/30/10 rule.

By: Jacey

Jacey — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 17:26:48 +0000

June: I’ve been wearing the pod for over 2 years and you are half wrong about the IOB. The IOB calculator assumes that you properly determined your mealtime bolus. So the calculator never takes that amount into consideration. I think this is how it should be. It correctly determines IOB rates when you have done correction boluses only. It’s all of matter of your own logic. You can easily check your records to see how much insulin you have on board after eating plus you learn how to do correct boluses rather than relying on an IOB calculation. For people who are new to pumping, the POD IOB makes sense. For those who are used to the old fashioned IOB on other pumps, they may have difficulty with it. I love the PODD as much as I love Obama!!

By: June S.

June S. — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 22:49:02 +0000

The person who mentioned that they don’t like the OmniPod’s IOB setup is right on! I wore the Pods for a full year. One day, while wearing a POD, after having taken a correction bolus recommended by the PDM, I was sitting in a doctor’s office (NOT an endocrinologist, mind you.) I decided to test my BG, as it was my habit to do so often. The OmniPod PDM read 49! I re-tested, and again got 49. I realized later that the Pod’s PDM was totally ignoring IOB, and that I should be ignoring its recommendations for correction bolusing, except right before a meal.

By: What Makes a Man Good or Bad?

What Makes a Man Good or Bad? — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 17:05:18 +0000

Oh.. this seems to be very costly for me..

@Don, I could open the link without any problem. Can you try again and check?

By: AngelaC

AngelaC — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 01:34:02 +0000

You’re welcome, Amy. My pleasure to help out!

By: Wendy

Wendy — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 21:55:43 +0000

OmniPod WOULD have been our second choice, but not with the current IOB feature. The company e-mailed me to confirm that they will NOT be enhancing the IOB to include both correction AND meal boluses…so…for us, that leaves OmniPod out of the running. They’re on the cutting room floor with MM — who never even made it to our table for consideration.

Guess that leaves Animas…if we HAD to decide today, that is.

But, we don’t…and we’re in NO rush to give up our beloved Cozmo.