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by nursedeborah
Sat Mar 13, 2010 1:27 pm
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: Help, I NEED HELP, AND ANSWERS :(
Replies: 6
Views: 1200

Re: Help, I NEED HELP, AND ANSWERS :(

Deborah, try this: When you put your mask on, try putting it on very loose, then lie down, turn on your cpap, and then re-adjust it, but slowly, tightening just a little at a time, until the leaks stop. Re-read the instructions that came with your mask, or go to their website, some of the mask make...
by nursedeborah
Sat Mar 13, 2010 1:24 pm
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: Help, I NEED HELP, AND ANSWERS :(
Replies: 6
Views: 1200

Re: Help, I NEED HELP, AND ANSWERS :(

Hi everyone, Sorrry I havn't been around, just was having such a hard time I didn't think I was going to get on the other side of it all. I will try all the things you have said, but calling the Resp Therp is a first on my list. This having to wake up several times during the night is making it hard...
by nursedeborah
Sat Mar 13, 2010 1:15 pm
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: Aha! I was right about Hypothyroid and Sleep Apnea
Replies: 36
Views: 7291

Re: Aha! I was right about Hypothyroid and Sleep Apnea

I just can't take living like this, and dealing with all the peeps, and other noises they are keeping me awake. Debbie Debbie, what do you mean about the peeps? SleepUgly, Love that name, and so sorry I have not gotten back after all me crying. The peeps, or beeps, it's all due ot the leaks in my f...
by nursedeborah
Tue Mar 09, 2010 9:01 pm
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: Looking for a new mask...
Replies: 17
Views: 4522

Re: Looking for a new mask...

I just got the info in the mail on SleepWeaver. They are cloth, you can wear glasses, thin strap straight up from your nose to the top of you head, and then fastens in the front. Here's their site http://www.SLEEPWEAVER.COM INFO@CIRCADIANCE.COM ahhhh!!!! to be able to read in bed again!!! I wear gla...
by nursedeborah
Tue Mar 09, 2010 8:54 pm
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: Loss of pressure in the Morning (Update Last Post)
Replies: 17
Views: 2619

Re: Loss of pressure in the Morning

I am pretty sure we have the same machine. Mine kept turning off when I first got it!!! Then had me change the settings over the phone, and it still did it. I know what your talking about in the am, and it feels like nothing is even coming out. I now see that the water is almost gone, and only 1/4 l...
by nursedeborah
Tue Mar 09, 2010 8:38 pm
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: Help, I NEED HELP, AND ANSWERS :(
Replies: 6
Views: 1200

Help, I NEED HELP, AND ANSWERS :(

I , have not been here for awhile as I am batteling with such a case of depression. I can't get the new mask to stop making this awfully loud noise, went back to my old one, and now it's doing it too! I had the straps really tight so I let them out a bit, and the old mask made the same noise last ni...
by nursedeborah
Tue Mar 09, 2010 8:28 pm
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: Aha! I was right about Hypothyroid and Sleep Apnea
Replies: 36
Views: 7291

Re: Aha! I was right about Hypothyroid and Sleep Apnea

So glad you had this here! I have the RX for this to all be done, but I am so tired I can't even get there! After seeing this I will make it a point to drag my butt in there. I am still not doing so great as even my new mask leaks, and makes this awful billowing nose. I went back to my old one, and ...
by nursedeborah
Sat Mar 06, 2010 1:42 pm
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: Medicare???
Replies: 18
Views: 3889

Re: Medicare???

Thanks Matt, I live in Calif, and I don't have to pay anything at all, just have to use it for 30 days, send in the chip, and then they see if I am using it more than 4 hours daily, and if not I do get 2 more months to keep trying to get used to it. If not then your going to really have to either bu...
by nursedeborah
Fri Mar 05, 2010 11:33 am
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: Medicare???
Replies: 18
Views: 3889

Re: Medicare???

I am just grateful I didn't have to do that, or we don't in California. If your doctor fills out the paperwork, and you go see them for the interview, you are usually approved, and get all the backpay from the first day it was filed. We do have some here in CA that do have to get a lawyer, but they ...
by nursedeborah
Thu Mar 04, 2010 5:02 pm
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: Medicare???
Replies: 18
Views: 3889

Re: Medicare???

Just glad it's not like that here in Calif!!

Debbie
by nursedeborah
Wed Mar 03, 2010 7:53 pm
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: Bad DMEs and Switching Machines
Replies: 4
Views: 1086

Re: Bad DMEs and Switching Machines

I called cooporate office, and told them the kind of treatment I was getting, and also had documented all that was said to me. I filed a verbal complaint, and then also sent one via e-mail. Now they are calling me daily to see if I am ok, if my equipment is working, and they now deliver to me, and I...
by nursedeborah
Wed Mar 03, 2010 7:46 pm
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: Medicare???
Replies: 18
Views: 3889

Re: Medicare???

I must have been lucky as I got both of them at the same time.

Debbie
Calif.
by nursedeborah
Wed Mar 03, 2010 7:44 pm
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: denture sores
Replies: 4
Views: 1439

Re: denture sores

Jonh, What are nasal pillows. Also been wanting to ask you are you still so tired all the time? How long before you started to feel like you were alive again? My doc siad he now thinks I have Narcolepsy, so I now have to see a Neurologist!! I just am so tired, but not sleeping in the am, or for days...
by nursedeborah
Wed Mar 03, 2010 7:22 pm
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: Hubby Had Emergency Surgery!
Replies: 153
Views: 25363

Re: Hubby Had Emergency Surgery!

Dori, I am new here, and have placed you both in our "Prayer Circle" So many have been healed. I know Mike will be fine with his machine at the hospital even if they have never seen that small of one, RT are so very good at what they do, or they are where I have worked as a nurse for over 30 years. ...
by nursedeborah
Wed Mar 03, 2010 7:13 pm
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: Having problems with Resperonics Auto A-flex
Replies: 2
Views: 1086

Re: Having problems with Resperonics Auto A-flex

Hello! I am a new member and a new CPAP-user. I recently got this Resperonics Auto A-flex unit that I'm having an odd problem with. The reason I say odd is that, so far, it is mystifying both the sleep-lab that prescribed it and also Apria, the supplier. After a few minutes the machine starts givin...