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5 Activating and Changing Your Pod
5.4. Filling, Activating, Applying, and Starting the Pod
Warning: Before lling a Pod, ensure that no other Pods are being activated
within 20 feet (6 m) of your Omnipod 5 app.
Warning: NEVER use a Pod if you feel resistance when you depress the
plunger. is condition can result in interrupted insulin delivery.
Warning: NEVER inject air into the ll port. Doing so may result in
unintended or interrupted insulin delivery.
Caution: Be sure to insert the ll syringe into the ll port and not any other
location on the Pod. Do not insert the ll syringe more than once into the ll port.
Only use the ll syringe and needle that came with your Pod. e ll syringe is
intended for single use only and should only be used with the Omnipod 5 System.
Fill the Pod with insulin
To ll the Pod with insulin (screen step )
1. Locate the arrow on the underside
of the Pod. e arrow points to the
insulin ll port.
Tip: You can leave the Pod in its tray
during lling and activating.
2. Insert the ll syringe straight down—
not at an angle—into the ll port.
3. Depress the ll syringe plunger to
transfer the insulin into the Pod.
Listen for two beeps from the Pod during
the lling process (screen step
):
4. Be sure to completely empty the ll
syringe, even aer hearing the two
beeps.
Note: e Pod must contain a
minimum of 85 units of insulin in order to function. e Pod beeps twice
aer it has been lled with 85 units of insulin. If you lled the Pod with more
than 85 units and still do not hear the two beeps, please call Customer Care.
Note: Aer lling the Pod, continue to the next step immediately. If two
hours pass before activating the lled Pod, the Pod becomes unusable.
5. Remove the needle from the insulin ll port. e port is self-sealing; insulin
will not leak aer the needle is removed.
6. Discard the ll needle in a sharps container.
Starting
Your
OmniPod 5
Effective Date: 22DEC2020, PCO-000267