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Bill
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Any Podders out there?  What does it feel like when the Pod in delivering insulin.  Does it feel like someone is tapping you?

August 1, 2009 at 8:44 AM Flag Quote & Reply

Lorraine
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Whoops! I just posted a reply in the wrong spot!  Sorry!


Just confirmed with Caleb that he doesn't feel the bolusing.  Not even the click from the pulses when it delivers (and the clicks are very quiet).

The only time he said he feels anything from a bolus is when he gets a large bolus immediately after a Pod change - he says it stings a little.  I'm guessing that is more because it is a new site and less to do with the fact that he uses the OmniPod.

August 1, 2009 at 10:08 AM Flag Quote & Reply

Kenny Kellner
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Agreed, I feel absolutely nothing!!! I use to sometimes feel a bolus on tradional tubing pumps but never feel anything on the omnipod!

August 1, 2009 at 2:22 PM Flag Quote & Reply

Andy
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I've been on the OmniPod for almost 4 years.  The vaste majority of the time I feel absolutely nothing.  Once in a while a little stinging (very little).  Usually I can't even tell where the Pod is unless I use my hands to feel around and find it.  For me switching from a MM tubed pump to the OmniPod was the best decision I ever made in 54 years of being a Type 1

August 1, 2009 at 5:41 PM Flag Quote & Reply

Jon Clarke
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I haven't felt a thing from a bolus.  But I do hear the beep.  Sometimes that's anoying.

February 15, 2010 at 6:20 PM Flag Quote & Reply

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