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- Mon Feb 19, 2024 9:42 pm
- Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
- Topic: Philips sales halted ==> cpap shortage?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2825
Re: Philips sales halted ==> CPAP shortage?
There won't be a shortage long-term. ResMed, Fisher & Paykel, and other manufactures will pick up the slack.
- Sun Feb 18, 2024 10:52 am
- Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
- Topic: Analyzing Sleep Apnea, CPAP Treatment in Melanoma Prognosis
- Replies: 1
- Views: 838
Analyzing Sleep Apnea, CPAP Treatment in Melanoma Prognosis
This article clearly states that if you suffer from OSA, your prognosis is significantly improved if you're CPAP compliant. This article states that this is the case for Melanoma. Also, by implication, the same applies to other cancers as well. The obvious issue with melanoma is what to do if the me...
- Tue Feb 13, 2024 9:47 am
- Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
- Topic: Ramp 30 min
- Replies: 2
- Views: 815
Re: Ramp 30 min
Perhaps it needs to be off for a certain amount of time for the ramp to re-engage.
I don't use the ramp (I can't stand it), so I don't have any recent experience.
However, back in 1999, the machine I had at the time reengaged the ramp even if the power "flickered;" waking me up!
I don't use the ramp (I can't stand it), so I don't have any recent experience.
However, back in 1999, the machine I had at the time reengaged the ramp even if the power "flickered;" waking me up!
- Sun Feb 04, 2024 3:42 pm
- Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
- Topic: Goodbye (and good riddance) Philips/Repironics
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1054
Goodbye (and good riddance) Philips/Repironics
I don't expect Philips/Respironics to have even a token presence in the US much longer. This means that it's questionable whether replacement parts will remain available. Replacement parts include water tanks, heated hoses (though "standard" hoses will fit), and filters (reusable and disposable). Ad...
- Thu Feb 01, 2024 10:35 am
- Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
- Topic: Safety of Dream Station II
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1119
Safety of Dream Station II
I am currently using a Dream Station II, which I received as a replacement for my Dream Station I. I am planning to replace this soon, but I want to know if it's considered safe in the meanwhile. As an aside, I never had any issues with the Dream Station I, which I found superior in design to the Dr...
- Tue Jan 30, 2024 10:31 pm
- Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
- Topic: Philips discontinues many products
- Replies: 29
- Views: 8057
Re: Philips discontinues many products
According to this Dream Station 2 is also discontinued (in the US). In fact, all xPAP machines are being discontinued in the US (according to this). Supposedly, they will continue to support the recall. In any case, many - including myself - said that Philips (or at least the medical device division...
- Tue Jan 30, 2024 8:06 pm
- Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
- Topic: Smoker? Don't smoke around your CPAP!
- Replies: 31
- Views: 7998
Re: Smoker? Don't smoke around your CPAP!
My parents were 3 pack a day smokers. My dad thankfully quit when I was 10 but my mom persisted much longer, claiming they would pry her last cigarette out of her cold, dead hand. I hated their smoking, and I was always sick. Turns out I have cough variant asthma, and one of my worst triggers--surp...
- Sat Jan 13, 2024 8:42 pm
- Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
- Topic: Put it in the landfill??
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4789
Re: Put it in the landfill??
I live in a high tax city, but they allow you to use the city dump for free.
- Sat Jan 13, 2024 6:43 pm
- Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
- Topic: Put it in the landfill??
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4789
Re: Put it in the landfill??
First of all, with very few exceptions, any mask can be used with any machine. You don't need to change your mask!
- Thu Jan 11, 2024 11:31 am
- Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
- Topic: Philips Dreamstation 2.
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3071
Re: Philips Dreamstation 2.
If you don't wish to keep this machine as a "backup," you can donate it to the American Sleep Apnea Association. They will see to it that it gets to a patient that does not have to means to obtain one himself/herself. I was never able to donate an old machine because - by the time I finished with th...
- Tue Jan 09, 2024 6:25 pm
- Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
- Topic: Insurance
- Replies: 14
- Views: 30484
Re: Insurance
To the original poster:
Assuming you take "regular" Medicare, they will pay for a sleep doc, sleep tests, and a new CPAP every five years. Of course, it's subject to the usual deductibles and copays.
Assuming you take "regular" Medicare, they will pay for a sleep doc, sleep tests, and a new CPAP every five years. Of course, it's subject to the usual deductibles and copays.
- Tue Jan 09, 2024 6:17 pm
- Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
- Topic: Dreamstation 2 won'r turn on
- Replies: 9
- Views: 10887
Re: Dreamstation 2 won't turn on
The implication of the original posting is that the machine can be used as long as it's turned on and off manually. Assuming that's correct, he does not have an emergency on his hands.
- Sun Jan 07, 2024 9:19 am
- Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
- Topic: I'm newbie and I have decided to go on my own
- Replies: 11
- Views: 11995
Re: I'm newbie and I have decided to go on my own
Just an aside. If you buy a machine, in the US, Canada, or Mexico, you will still be able to use it in Europe even though the voltage and frequency are different. You will need a European plug or adapter (a "shape changer"), but not a converter ("a voltage or frequency changer").
- Mon Jan 01, 2024 7:08 pm
- Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
- Topic: Sour Body Oder since I started with CPAP
- Replies: 29
- Views: 27356
Re: Sour Body Oder since I started with CPAP
Here's another possibility.
Perhaps CPAP has "fixed" your sense of smell, and you're smelling an odor that's really been there all the time!
Perhaps CPAP has "fixed" your sense of smell, and you're smelling an odor that's really been there all the time!
- Mon Jan 01, 2024 6:58 pm
- Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
- Topic: Travelling to Bangladesh
- Replies: 9
- Views: 15410
Re: Travelling to Bangladesh
Bangladesh electricity is 220 volts - 50 hz, your CPAP will run on that without any special converter. You will need an adapter (a plug-shape changer), not a converter (a voltage/frequency changer). The same for you telephone charger and most likely also for any electric toothbrush that you might be...