I am now officially through with Lincare. After seven months now of dealing with local offices shackled by lack of assistance from the national Billing team and two months of working with iCare and being told to expect a call "By tomorrow afternoon" multiple times, I have to move on. What is the bes...

Since I've been asked, the DME is Lincare. I've spent the last month calling the iCare hotline and have been told "It's been sent to billing, we'll know something by the end of the week." Last week, I was promised a personal returned phone call by end of business on Friday. Still waiting. I called m...

I moved from East TN to Southern Mississippi to work on my doctorate. Everything was gravy back home. New supplies like clockwork, calls to check and see how things were going, etc. Down here has been nothing like that, and now I've got corporate involved and their taking their sweet time. I began t...

I feel foolish asking this after almost a year on my machine, but... Should I unplug my S9 when not in use, or is it ok to leave it plugged in? I'm about to reconfigure the bedroom (to add a bassinet, yay!) and the answers from the collective here may decide where some furniture goes (i.e. to block ...

Two weeks ago, I got a very scary phone call from my CPAP provider. They've been in contract negotiations with Cigna (who I had to switch to in January as part of state plan restructuring) and negotiations fell apart. They weren't going to charge me for the five months I'd used the CPAP this year wh...

I've been thinking since the failure of my 2nd CPAP that maybe I'm not doing enough to protect my equipment. I keep it connected to a high-end serial style surge brick, but given that we have more brownouts than spikes such a setup might be a moot point. I've been looking at buying a line interactiv...

Well, I've decided that I'm miserable enough to take a sick day and get the machine swapped early. Thursday morning at 8 I'll have my new machine in hand. I've got two problems now... #1 - My warranty runs out in July; after that the equipment failures become my financial burden. With teacher pay be...

From what I can tell from the bottom sticker, it's a RemStar Auto Rev.00. I decided to see just how messed up it was this afternoon. I pulled the unit up on the bed, made sure the settings were as Slinky recommended, and put my mask on. I started Therapy mode and within 30 seconds the pressure dropp...

A couple nights ago my Philips Respironics CPAP started exhibiting some funny behavior. I won't be able to see my provider until Friday to swap it out, so I wanted to run what's happening by the experts here to see what recommendations you have. The sequence of events works like this: I will be slee...