Several months back, I was diagnosed with sleep apnea. It turns out I was improperly diagnosed and that my problems were related to allergies and swelling of the nose/throat areas, so once that was addressed by an allergist/ENT Doc, I no longer needed my CPAP machine. I kept it for a couple extra mo...

Merry Christmas from Jefferson, Georgia.

I bought a resmed quattro air for parts on eBay. $48 for the whole thing. All internet DMEs charges $176 for the complete mask. As a precaution, I clean everything thoroughly and disinfect with control iii before using the mask. Can you provide some links? I couldn't get anywhere close to that pric...

I wouldn't normally do this, as I prefer to buy things whole and I do have a prescription, but right now, thanks to all the wonderful doctor bills, I'm extremely tight on money (self pay here). So I'm needing a full face mask and I need to get a good one as reasonable as I can, especially knowing I ...

Guest1 wrote:I would add Resmed Airfit F10 to the list.

If you need to buy them cheap, try buying them in parts on eBay. I just got a brand new Quattro Air for $48 delivered (as parts).

You can find the F10 for less than $60 there.

What parts are needed to buy to assemble a Quattro Air?

Well, I tried out nasal pillows for a few days now and while I've gotten the machine to about the right humidity/temp, a good pressure range for APAP and I'm getting good AHI (A lot less than 1), I'm not sleeping more than 2 to 2.5 hours at a maximum stretch. I'm using nasal pillows and I'm getting ...

ChicagoGranny wrote:

DaveInGA wrote:Dave

Does your mouth get dry?

Not really, gets more "gummy" from mucous. I don't think I'm opening my mouth much, but more the humidity just isn't quite wet enough.

Use hypoallergenic filters. Already do. Also you don't have to adjust the humidifier manually. You can use just the temp setting to increase or decrease the amount of moisture in the air. The auto setting maintains 80% humidity at the set temp. The higher the yemp the more total moisture you get. I...

I don't use my humidifier. Maybe it's because I live on Wilmington Island. But also, everyone's body is different. You're lucky in that. I think you are getting some good advice to set it to manual and experiment with different settings - both higher and lower. Too much humidity from the CPAP humid...

You can turn that setting from Automatic to "manual" then you will have temperature and humidity controls separate...they don't give you a % though...just go by numbers and 5 is the highest...it should give more than 80% I would think but a lot of it is going to depend on the bedroom ambient humidi...

englandsf wrote:Turn humidifier to manual in the clinician's menu, then you'll see temp and humidity on the home screen

This is probably the direction I'll end up going. Does anyone know, if the humidity is a bit dry on automatic, where one should start with the manual setting to get it a bit wetter?

I'm wondering if you can set your humidifier to an actual number (in fact I know you can) rather than auto, and see what that does at diff. settings - if you're mouth breathing, more humidity might help, but not necessarily, and if you're losing Cpap air there it would account for your dryness... h...

I'm currently using my S9 Autoset with the humidifier on automatic and a temp setting of 76 degrees F. The setting allowed me to sleep well, but I woke up with fairly dry and somewhat sticky nasal membranes. My nose, due to allergies, produces a goodly amount of mucous and the current setting I'm us...

Got everything in I needed to start my treatments. Set up the machine and adjusted settings. Opted to go with a 6-20 cmH20 range for the APAP, automatic/78degrees F for the humidify and a five minute ramp to 6cmH20. These were my basic start settings. First night : Tried to go right to be at 11PM. I...

I was taking prevastatin at 40 MG to lower my bad cholesterol level and help me get started losing weight. I was recently diagnosed with Rheumatoid Arthritis and my Gastro Doc advised to stop taking the statin because my liver blood results were showing liver distress where none had existed before t...