Hi everyone. I have been on CPap 13cm for over a year. I have not had rain out issues since last March when i started out. My wife started cpap a week ago. She has a Respironics M series (basic basic basic model) with a heated humidifier unit. Her mask is a Fisher/Paykel HC406 mask. Her setting is 1...

Welcome to the site Jim. You will find a lot of help here.
John

alpha1340. I will say a prayor for you. I have a hernia in the same area that you have your rupture. I have had 3 nerve block's (last on in July) in that area.My last one was the first time i have been in the hospital since i went on Cpap in March. I brought my machine. I had concious sedation/twili...

Thanks Cathy. I am not going to get to enjoy it much. We are moving in 3 weeks (my first house! darn morgage loan mess is driving us crazy) so we got to spend it packing while we have no kids home.
John

For the last week or so i have been using a auto cpap. Thursday (ok its been a bad week maybe it was Wed) the dme came and got my data card. I told the RT that i had been looking at my numbers in the clinical menu (Gasp! Bad bad John your not supposed to know how to access that) and that they didnt ...

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Welcome to the board and i hope you feel better soon.
John

Ok i just looked at my readings off my S8 Vantage Auto pap for my first night. Now i was using a cpap at 13cm till last night. Press 16.2 Leak 0.06 l/s AHI 5.2 AI 1.1 HI 4.1 So whats this mean? My pressure was a lot higher it seems. It was the best night in a long time. It was also the first time i ...

Hello everyone. TGIF! Good new's. I went to my primary care doctor yesterday and we was talking about my cpap and my health. He wasn't happy that i did not get the auto pap he wanted me on 7 week's ago. So today i will be getting a Resmed S8 Vantage EPR Auto CPAP Machine brought to me. I was using L...

Glad that i could bring some a good chuckle today. Poor spike has had 3 baths today and still smells some.. Ok off to figure out what to make for dinner. Its my night to make dinner (Pizza hut or take out?)

Thank god for my sample pack of pur-sleep last night. Around 12:30am we got a rude awaking from my step son. "Dog got skunked". Our border collie got it bad. Back yard still stinks. Placed a few drops of clear on the pad by the intake of my cpap and i no longer has stinky skunk smell. I am really li...

Drummer.
I hope you the best of luck and that you soon will be feeling like a new person.

John

You would think with all of us cpap hose heads out here that there would be a convention. There are conventions for everything else. A lot of $ in Xpaps.

John

Hello everyone. I have some good new's. I will starting a part time security job at a local college and it will go full time Sept 1. 2nd good news is that we are buying a house. It will be my first house. I have always lived in a apartment. No more parking outside in the snow and getting into a cold...

Back in March when i got my first cpap machine, a Fisher and Prikel basic cpap. That the insurance company paid for the humidifer unit. THen June 1 when the DME took the machine back from me when i lost insurance. That they wanted the humidifer back. I said wait a sec. I said to the DME biller that ...

Oh i cant wait for my wife to come home and see that. That is funny. Sure does change things.