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    262 years ago

    As a diabetic, holy fucking shit! I’ve been on the fence about getting a pump because it’s just one more thing that can fail.

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      52 years ago

      I don’t think you should take that as a main/sole argument against using a pump, there are many other pump manufacturerers oit there. I fir example am very happy with ma Dana i. (Apperently unlike the Omnipod, which seems very odd to me tbh) it has some saftey functions built into the device itself, so even if the controling software on my phone fucks up and doesn’t respect it’s hard limits the pumps driver still will. Unlike Apps or any management software I imagine the driver to be quite simple and thus less prone to errors like that.

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        2 years ago

        Huh? The omnipod dash is another pump from the same company that also has an app. What’s the difference? They’re both susceptible to bugs.

        Yes it absolutely has something to do with the pump.

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          No? Love the downvotes from people who don’t even know about this.

          It’s an error in the phone app for the omnipod 5. It does NOT happen in the management device of the omnipod 5 or any other omnipod.

          The omnipod dash system does NOT have a phone app that can control the pump, only one that can monitor the stats. The PDM for the dash or the omnipod 5 does NOT have this bug, it is only in the android phone app for the omnipod 5.

          So no. It’s not a pump / pod problem.

          You being scared is unwarranted and has nothing to do with pump systems in general.

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            42 years ago

            I mean, if their app is suspectable to a bug that could literally kill you, I would never trust anything from that company again. It’s excruciatingly important that they don’t fuck up, and they did

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            72 years ago

            I think people understand this, but it’s not just the stated bug that give people pause.

            If they screwed up this, then what are the odds they made similar as yet unknown mistakes. Seems reasonable to demand some transparency to determine whether the circumstances leading to this screwup are truly limited to this one app versus a more systematic QA issue that could result in other mistakes in other products and software.