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by dj_segfault
Mon Feb 19, 2007 12:00 am
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: How do you find a good DME/Lab?
Replies: 17
Views: 3472

Thank you all for your advice, especially specific hardware recommendations. I'm going to call my health care provider tomorrow and see what sleep labs/DMEs I can go to. Clearly I need to get tested again to see what my numbers should be today . I'll let you all know how it goes. I think the motto o...
by dj_segfault
Wed Feb 14, 2007 11:02 pm
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: How do you find a good DME/Lab?
Replies: 17
Views: 3472

I'm pretty sure it's set to 14. It's a Tranquility Quest 7300 from Respironics. It was NOWHERE on their products pages. I finally found a link to a PDF for the user manual (I never got one), and the (C) date on the manual is dated 1999! It must have been long discontinued even when I got it. Check o...
by dj_segfault
Wed Feb 14, 2007 9:47 pm
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: How do you find a good DME/Lab?
Replies: 17
Views: 3472

Thanks for the welcome. When I did my overnight sleep study, they had me sleep, and woke me up after just 45 minutes saying "OK, we've seen enough! Let's hook up the CPAP unit!" I'm a very geeky and proactive person, and solving my lack of quality sleep (and air leakage issues) is worth good money t...
by dj_segfault
Wed Feb 14, 2007 8:54 pm
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: How do you find a good DME/Lab?
Replies: 17
Views: 3472

You can also do what most of us have done, and that is pretty much handle our own therapy. If you have insurance and have to use them, you can find out if our forum host affiliate handles your insurance. The site is; billmyinsurance. com But how do you know what to set your unit to if you do it all...
by dj_segfault
Tue Feb 13, 2007 11:07 pm
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: How do you find a good DME/Lab?
Replies: 17
Views: 3472

How do you find a good DME/Lab?

I've been using a CPAP for about three years, and now finding this forum and hearing others' experiences, I find I got almost no care at all. Yes, I got tested, and I got hardware, but they didn't talk about maintenance, or replacement parts, or followup visits, so all my hardware is old and almost ...