Problems with Omnipod 5
Half vent half asking for advice. I started the Omnipod 5 mid-week last week. It was working great. My major issue is highs and it was addressing them before I even went up, which is a total game changer for me. Then the weekend hit and I spent practically all day at 20 mmol/L (360 mg/dL). This is completely unacceptable to me, obviously. Looked at my O5 graph and it wasn’t even trying to correct for it, probably because I was just manually giving myself multiple units of insulin since the system was saying it didn’t need any correction (yet BS wouldn’t come down). I have a pretty demanding job so I usually just don’t eat anything during the day, and I imagine the algorithm had a hard time translating that to the weekend when I do eat consistently. What do I do about that? Switch to manual mode on weekend? The persistent highs make no sense to me. I even switched my pod to make sure it was actually delivering insulin, and no luck.
Also, it seems like O5 is now just ignoring my targets and hovers around 2 mmol/L higher than I want it to. Since the week ended, I haven’t seen it be on target even once. I increased my max basal rate, but I don’t know if that will make a difference.
I can’t switch off O5. I paid a lot of money out of pocket to get on it since Eros was being discontinued. Any advice would be greatly appreciated!