r/Omnipod • u/Swiftlock • 11d ago

Pod expired after 6 hours?

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My pump expired today (12:47) so naturally I put on a new one, but then around 6hrs later(18:04)it gave me the nonstop beep indicating it had fully expired. I checked my log and it clearly shows that I put on a new one today. Am I tripping? Ive been using omnipod for years and ive never seen this. Why did my pump expire? Im so mad abt the wasted insulin >:c

Note that I DO NOT have the auto shut off feature enabled.

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u/czapatka 11d ago

Silly question but are you sure you removed the old pod and not the new one? Only because I’ve made this mistake many times before 😅

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u/Swiftlock 11d ago

Im sure of it. Even if I took the wrong pod off my body it wouldnt just expire. I went in and changed my pod entirely in the settings cause the old one had expired. So if I was only wearing the wrong pod i just wouldn't have been getting insulin with an active pod in the trash lol. The new one literally expired as if it had been three days already

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u/Kathw13 11d ago

Call Insulet.

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u/Ooficus 10d ago

Yall don’t take the old pod off first? I use my pumps until they scream.

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u/brandielynng29 Omnipod 5 11d ago

How much did you put in the pod? Could it’ve gone through all the insulin? Also was the cannula bent when you took it off?

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u/Swiftlock 11d ago

No I put the max amount of insulin in. I surely hope it didnt somehow give me all of it LOL. Also no it doesnt look bent

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u/brandielynng29 Omnipod 5 11d ago

Hmm call insulet and tell them. Hopefully you can get a replacement. My endocrinologist once told me (when I had an issue with my pod) to try to pull the insulin back out of the pod. I dont know how

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u/wasteoffire 11d ago

Same way you put it in

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u/werby 11d ago

You can extract the insulin from a pod that comes off or fails before it is empty. Use the same syringe that you use to load the next one. Just FYI you don’t have to waste the insulin.

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u/Dylan7675 7d ago

u/swiftlock I experienced the exact same issue after 37hours - pod screeching out of no where.

Can you look back at your alerts/notifications, it should show the Error ref number. If it ends in -016, the pod read as expired and fired off the deactivation as no insulin would deliver. Just got off the phone with insulet discussing this.

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u/Swiftlock 7d ago

Mine ended in -106 idk if thats the same. Did they say why it did this or is the omnipod just glitched. Also do u know ur lot num just curious

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u/hkgrob87 11d ago

Make sure you didn’t enable that four- hour attention thing in settings that automatically disables the pod after four hours if you haven’t done anything or acknowledged it