Sure enough... I used one of my older "discarded" pillows last night, and it worked like new! Maybe they just need a week or two to thoroughly dry out and re-conform to their original shape?? We'll see, I'll keep using the old one, until I need to replace it with the other old one! Meanwhile I'll st...

That's funny Pugsy. I've been doing this CPAP thing for a few months now. I am barley cleaning the pillows or any other part of the unit once a week, if at all! I started cleaning the pillows thinking that would prevent them from leaking (I thought read that somewhere here). But I too have also neve...

Interesting topic. I washed my now 30 days old Rezmed nasal pillows last week in baby shampoo and warm, not hot water. I made sure to rinse very well to get the soap out. I treated them gently, none the less, it seems the seal has not been the same, and that they are very sensitive and now more like...

Thanks for all of these helpful replies. My S9 is set to auto, and my average pressure seems to be about 6.5 to 7.5 most nights. The doc has the auto pressure settings between 5 and 20. So if I understand what I've read from your answers, the S9 is dropping my pressure to between 4.5 and 5.5 on exha...

So I'm given the choice of off, 1, 2, and 3. My doctor has set mine to 2. What differences will I feel as I lower the number setting? Increase? Off? The clinician's manual mentions the settings, but doesn't define what the numbers mean? (unless my apnea induced confusion has made me miss this entry!)

Have you slept at these altitudes? I was mountaineering in Bolivia. No real problems during the day climbing, but the higher I got past 13,500 feet, the more difficulty I had sleeping. I did not have a CPAP at the time, so I'm afraid I can't help you with your original posting issue. But I can confi...

Ugh! Very dry again last night! 2 AM my throat felt totally dry. Unit was set to 80 degrees. (Climate control is active and hose is attached correctly). Dipped my finger in water. Cold to the touch. I raised the setting to 86. Turned the unit back on and waited for 5 minutes. Felt no difference in a...

Mike- thanks for your reply and input, AND test! I have confirmed that the humidifier works at the start. When I push "warm up" the plate is hot to the touch, and the water definitely becomes warm to the touch. But after time passes, and the unit has been functioning, it seems that the humidifier co...

For what it's worth, I thought I was having the same issue with the S9 humidifier. I would touch the heating plate in the morning and it would be cold, and the water luke warm at best. 3 humidifier replacements later, the technician reminded me that luke warm to a finger that's 98.6 degrees may feel...

Two months in now. Relatively okay experience so far. I've noticed that the nasal pillows start to leak a lot after about three weeks use, maybe a little more, but not quite 4. Is this common. I've not really been cleaning them. Should I? And should I use baby shampoo? I use this on the hoses. I tho...

Thanks for these replies. I agree with the fact that it's not likely to be three bad humidifiers. It may very well be one bad user!! The dryness I feel is not my mouth, but more the back of my throat. It feels like where the nose airways go. My nose itself does not feel overly dry. I guess a next go...

I'm having an issue with the humidifier on my S9, but I'm beginning to think it's just the way the machine works. I've got the Climate control turned on under clinician settings, so my choices are 68-86 degrees. I'm well aware I can turn this off, and separately set humidity and temperature, but hav...

I will confirm that getting a completely new humidifier, and then new cpap unit, the clicking noise was still there. So apparantly this is a new "feature". Admittdely, it IS not a very loud annoyance at all. But in a bedroom, in the middle of the day, when the unit is off, the noise can be heard, an...

Newbie chiming in again. Good to hear the confirmation about AHI and RERA's. As I mentioned before, when I spoke to my DME and was alarmed that I was getting lots of 0.0 AHI's, he said the S9 data, even viewed in Rescan does not provide data that conclusivley indicates RERA's at all, but he told me ...

I have many nights where I have an AHI of 0.0. Most other nights it registers a 0.2. I mentioned this to my DME and he told me he was not surprised since the doctor had diagnosed me with respiratory arousals not induced by apneas. He (the DME) said that AHI cannot measure those. Is he giving me a li...