[JediSkipdogg]

Sorry to hear your bad experience. My personal peeve with companies is they don't tell the full story on their websites and many times you have to specifically ask them the question you want answered. For example, with each company here is my biggest peeve.....

Cozmo - Still thinking on this.

Animas - They don't inform about the stinging sensation one may have. Granted, it's a small percent of users, it's large enough to annoy many that have it, but only turn a small percent away (I'd say less than 1/2%.)

Minimed - They pull people in with their CGMS, yet forget to tell many that it's not insurance covered. They also tell people that it's superbly accurate, but neglect to say it does have flaws some have readings that are extremely off and false alarms at times.

Spirit - They insist that insurance will replace a pump in 4 years so they have the timer on their pump for good reasons. What they fail to realize is that not all insurance companies will replace with the 4 year deadline and that it's unsurance right now how many insurance companies will replace a pump based on the 4 year deadline. Therefore thousands of users (mainly those that may/can lose insurance in 4 years from now) are left hanging and can go pumpless in 4 years. I know I could lose my job any day being government base and if I went without a pump in 4 years I could be really screwed on control since I rely heavily on it now and I would actually use a pump out of warranty instead of taking a gamble of not using a pump at all.




Keep in mind the above are personal peeves. HOwever, they are ones that you have to actually know in advance before going to their website. The companies either swear or neglect to mention the above problems until you basically drill them about it and even then, sometimes act like it's so small. Many times they also pull you in with thier "future promises" that they can't give any date on coming out. ALL pump companies are notorious for this but they have ZERO say on what the furure will bring. The FDA/Gov't controls that and Accu-Chek found that out with their Spirit pump when their Spirit was ready for realease in 2005 but was held back by a simple 3-5 year old import ban on out of country pumps.