.....and the rest of the world will collectively sigh in relief!

I love my Amara View, and I hate it too!!! Too loose and I leak like crazy, mask fart all night and my bottom lip drops out. Too tight and I get two red spots on the tip of my nose. The posters who say to adjust the straps by a small (1/8th inch) at a time are spot on. I find the position of the cro...

The water in Denmark has an extremely high level of calcium, or what they call calc, in it. You have to use water softeners for EVERYTHING. It leaves a film on everything it touches. I doubt very much that anyone uses the regular water in their Cpap machine. You would need to clean the humidifier e...

If you are wearing it properly and it is the correct size, there should be no leaking into the eyes. A lot of times what people think are mask leaks irritating the eyes are actually exhaust venting hitting the covers and bouncing back into the eyes. And that can happen with any mask. Yep, I'm glad ...

Starlette wrote:What is FOT?

Forced Oscillation Technique - Little bursts of pressure to detect if your airway is open. I sometimes feel them in the morning when I am awake and getting ready to turn the machine off. I believe on the Resmed they will start if no breath is detected for 10 seconds.

if it didn't vent, you'd be dead by now. I'm now curious about this statement. Are there any known cases of vents blocking? With all the smarts in the modern machines, are there any safeguards if there is no vent rate detected? I'm not worried, just curious. Will the machine even continue to work i...

I am travelling in Europe at the moment. +1 on the bag. It fits snugly and securely on the roll-aboard. It is an excellent design

He gets close though. Doesn't really matter though because Respironics never gives us an exact line the sand like ResMed does with its 24 L/min line to avoid (which I think is a bit over conservative anyway). I think I remember reading in some technical document that Resmed machines start to respon...

Most airlines have some seats with outlets, but you have to arrange ahead of time for them and make sure they'll let you use your machine - not all do. I don't know if you need special adaptors or not for the plugs. Yep, flying Qatar Airways. I checked out their regulations and had my travel agent ...

I have been using CPAP for a grand total of 101 days. During that time I have had 2 day-time naps. For the previous 101 days I reckon I had close to 101 daytime naps. My only time sleeping without CPAP since I got it was for an hour or so during an overnight power failure. I hope to be using it tomo...

The first thing I did when I got my machine set at 5-18 was research on this and other boards. As I was suffocating at 5 and the huge range was causing havoc with discomfort and leaks, I took the advice on many threads to gradually increase the low pressure with excellent results. No doctor was cons...

Thank you all. Cands, I'm tolerating 6 very well so I could probably make a jump right to 7, then a jump to 8 and maybe 9 if needed, as LSAT mentioned. I'm amazed at what a difference going from 5 to 6 made in my ability to fall asleep more easily. I'm sure acclimation to the mask played a part as ...

When I started out only 3 months ago, I increased the minimum pressure by 0.2 per day. That way I hardly noticed the increase. I certainly noticed the improvement in my AHI and sleep quality. Do Philips machines allow these small increases? Now that my AHI is consistently below 1.0, I wait 7 days to...

It worked for me in Jordan. YMMV. Good to hear that. Depending on the country, the thread might be different. The voltage in Jordan is 220, but that doesn't really matter since all CPAPs (except really ancient ones), are dual voltage. For example, most light fittings in Australia are the bayonet ty...

I tried putting ice into my brother's humidifier and it made no difference. He still complained the air was too hot, but if I turned the humidifier OFF, it wasn't enough humidity. Putting ice in the humidifier chamber and having the humidifier 'on' makes no sense, in my opinion. I imagine all this ...