Thanks for the replies everyone. I think I will go ahead and try it at home and see how it goes. I do feel pretty confident in the specs on the thing. It's a very popular professional photography company with very demanding types of customers (Essentially having been started by a technical geek who ...

I know there are some people here much better at batteries and electricity than I. Hoping someone can tell me if I'm looking at this correctly. I have a System One Auto. Not long ago I purchased some new photography lights and a battery unit to use with them. The battery is designed to power high-po...

Have a Roku player, love it. One thing to add - you do NOT have to have a credit card to get an account setup. Little known fact: call Roku customer service and ask them to set you up an account without the CC. They will suggest you do use a CC but you can just tell them that you'll add it later and...

Sounds like the DME isn't explaining things very well and not being patient enough to really go through exactly what is going on. Now, let me preface this by saying I've been out of the DME business for a number of years now so some of this can easily no longer apply. Trust me when I say Insurance i...

Just because I tend to hold a different view on this, I'll chime in. My answer when people ask me usually is "It depends". If you are working with a DME who is local, you can almost always get the card read anytime you want for free. It's not something anyone can bill for (That I've ever seen) and a...

Concentrators tend to be rentals primarily due to the upkeep and maintenance required on them. They all tend to be noisy to varying degrees though not all that bad really. The noise and heat come from the fact that they have small-ish 2 cylinder compressors to bumping up room air to a pressurized ou...

I've never cleaned a mask. Well, okay that's not entirely true. I think I have wiped it out with the handtowel in the kitched once or twice but that's it.

I washed my humidifier once maybe a year or so ago when I changed the filters and whatnot. Figured I'd do a complete once-over and all. Other than that, occasional tap water use. Never used distilled water in it and certainly not for washing it. So far, I'm alive so I'd say in my experience it's not...

A prescription has to have your name on it. It will also have to say cpap, bipap, apap, bi-level, etc. Something including one of those terms. It will also have to have a setting on it. It might be a specific pressure such as 12cm. It might be a range such as 12-15 if it's an APAP. It should have 2 ...

Call your insurance company directly and find out what is covered. Don't believe what the DME is telling you. The person you are talking to is likely a salesperson, not an expert on your insurance coverage. In my experience with Aetna, the deal was a rent to own. Ten months of rental payments and t...

There are a few things going on here. First - Get out of the habit of comparing the pricing from an online cash sale to going through Insurance. It's apples and oranges right out of the gate. Next - it is standard practice for most insurance companies to rent a CPAP for a year and then switch to pur...

I replied in your other thread you started about this.

Again, this is exactly the sort of question you should be calling your provider about and asking them. They should be able to get you all fixed up!

Good Luck

Put me in the camp of it hurt for a while but I just dealt with it and after a few weeks it went away and is fine now.

A lot of doctors offices charge nowadays for providing records. And has already been mentioned, the standard that I've seen is X dollars per Y pages. I don't like it, but I understand it. The sheer amount of paper shuffling required these days at doctors offices would be highly annoying to me if I w...