Wow, Last night was the first night with the CL2 I used the direct interface and had very little problems. I slept well and feel good this morning. I got the ayr gel last night and was apauled at the price for such a tiny tube. my nose is healing after that horible mask and I am doing ok. Its off to...

Yeah well, Lets just say that I have learned how to work the system... sometimes. Needless to say this was realy important because I am in pain and I leave for california tomorrow for 3 weeks so I realy needed the other mask So here is what happened. I got there and there was a lady working that jus...

Ok so I called the VA hospital and talked to someone at the admited side of the hospital not the outpatient and they got me to their respritory care person. I told them what is going on and they said, get here asap and bring your mask, we will get you fixed up. so I am off on a 2 hour round trip to ...

I am going to call around today and see if any medical supplys are open that carry masks. I cant realy afford to spend money on it, mabey I can rent one? its worth a shot untill I can get with the VA

Hurricane wrote:Would not use bandaids, use Nexcare paper tape, won't pull on your irritated skin, Bandaids Ouch!!!!!!!

Actualy that is a nexcare comfort bandaid. the pain is from pressue I think not rubbing.

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Well last night was my 3rd night on CPAP and I feel great this morning except for my nose and upper lip... still sore but the sleep is well worth it. Here are some photos of the issue and what I did about it last night, Cut down bandaid http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f68/scottahicks/noseaid.jpg h...

OUCH!!!! Please help! Ok so last night was my second night on my machine. I sleps better than the first night, but my mask is killing the bridge of my nose. I dont know if they even gave me the right size mask at the VA I have a suspicion it was what they had at the moment??? Anyway the bridge of my...

Well, Mom taught me well, I can sew, cook, crochet, etc. My hose cover still dident stand up to my 65degree bedroom I did get a lot of condensastion in the hose last night. I also woke up with a tight feeling in my throat like a stick had been shoved down it, and my mustache is irritated. Anyway ton...

Well I dident realy like any of the choices of fabric at walmart so I settled on this, I will make a better one when I get the chance to go to the fabric store. but for now, it will work, my neice came over and brought a friend and the friend was lookin at me like,,,, whats this big dude doing sewing?

I present to you: The Hypnotic Hose Cover



I figure if I cant fall asleep, I can stare at the hose cover and I will be out like a light!

the people who do the fittings and hand out the machines are less than competant. The fitting was more like heres your stuff now go away... no choices, I had to argue with them to get my heated humidifier, and was given very little information. Man I wish the sleep tech was there she was so informat...

Well aparently the lady at the VA had to eat a little crow today. I got a call from the sleep lab at the VA telling me they wanted to schedual my mask fitting and to recive my machine and that they only give them out on tuesdays. I informed her that I was leaving on tuesday for california and woulde...

When I was talking to the lady at the VA she said "I dont know who gave you all this information about your test, the doctor hasent even looked it over yet. When the doctor comes back he will look at your test in the order it sits in the file. (the sleep tech put it in the front) And after all sir, ...