I have one of the reservoirs that are designed to not be opened. I use white vinegar, dish soap and warm water to clean it. I submerse it in the water, soap and vinegar solution in my bathroom sink, slosh it around and rinse it out. I do this once a week when I wash my nasal pillows and tubes. I hav...

The RT told me that it gets holes in it or just can't be cleaned that well due to it being corrugated... And is the cleaning thing an issue? (I am remiss in that I don't clean the hose weekly... should I?) It is only corrugated on the outside due to the wrapping of the heating wire. The inside is c...

For what it is worth, I have BlueCrossBlueShield (not old enough for Medicare). Anyway, my DME after checking with my insurance told me what my out of pocket cost would be before I even chose a CPAP machine. So, it seems to me that I would have paid the same no matter whether I got the Intellipap or...

Hey, Crazy Cat Lady, Welcome to the forum. I hope your scalp heals quickly. Good luck with cpap and dealing with your insomnia. Since you are a friend that I knew before either of us started cpap, I'll share a link to my cpap story: http://www.cpaptalk.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=58929 It is good to see...

Swift FX Medium Pillows

I use Hueffenhardt or Hüffenhardt as my name everywhere I post online. And to my knowledge I am the only one who uses that as a username anywhere on the net; and that is what I wanted when I picked a name. I did not want to use my real name. I used my real name once and acquired a very scary stalker...

I'd disconnect the S9 AutoSet from the humidifier and then reconnect them making sure that they are completely connected. Mine has colors. I find them annoying as well as the LCD screen on the AutoSet, so I taped spare UNO playing cards over the humidifier window and the AutoSet's LCD screen making ...

My Swift FX is relatively quiet unless and until it blows the exhaust onto something/anything. If I put my hand up to the exhaust to check that it is working, not only can I feel it on my hand, I can hear it. If I sleep on my side such that the exhaust hits the mattress, I hear it. If I sleep on my ...

To access the setup menu: Make sure the smart dial is in the default position (where the machine would start if pressed once). Hold down the smart dial button with your thumb while simultaneously using your other hand to rotate the dial 360 degrees clockwise until you are back in the default positio...

You have low standards for expensive equipment then. I expect to get what I paid for. Mikey I got exactly what I paid for. I paid for a machine with the publshed pressure tolerances and I got a machine within the published pressure tolerances. Andin any case, I don't need the machine to put out an ...

The F&P ICON Auto's pressure tolerances are a little tighter (http://www.fpicon.com/data2/F&P%20ICON% ... 6221_c.pdf), but not likely to your satisfaction:

At 11 cmH20, it has a tolerance of +/- 0.47, for a range of 10.53 to 11.47.

You work for Resmed by any chance? You sell their gear? I cannot imagine anyone supporting Resmed with loose tolerances like they have unless their is some financial conflict of interest there. Mikey No, my job is completely unrelated to CPAP, etc. And I have no financial interest in ResMed. I do h...

According to the User Manual (http://www.resmed.com/au/assets/documents/product/s9_autoset/user_guide/368147_s9-autoset-s9-elite_user-guide_row_eng.pdf) for the ResMed S9 AutoSet: "Pressure measurement tolerance ±0.5 cm H2O ± 4% of the measured reading". So, for a target pressure of 11, they are sup...

I just read a recent post on another message board in which the poster claimed to have just received Infosmart software. Their machine supplier got it for them. They needed a letter from their doctor & paid $40 for it. Here is the link to the company he said he used: (Forgot I can't post links to co...

I keep my mouth shut when I sleep, unconscious and all. So, it is not a stupid idea. People don't have to just accept that they are mouth breathers. I don't know how to train a person to do what I do, but I bet at least some people can do it. If I can sleep with my mouth shut, surely at least some o...