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by purple22
Thu Jun 27, 2019 8:37 am
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: How to narrow nose top with Airfit20
Replies: 1
Views: 1225

How to narrow nose top with Airfit20

I am trying to use AirFit F20 Full Face Mask with a Medium cushion. This barely goes below my mouth. Surely I can not mouth breathe. I am thinking I need the large cushion but the top of my nose would possibly be to large, how can I fill in that space? Am I back to moleskin?
by purple22
Fri Jun 14, 2019 5:12 am
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: New CPAP USER and swelling of ankles/feet
Replies: 26
Views: 17098

Re: New CPAP USER and swelling of ankles/feet

Put it another way, early treatment of cardiovascular problems can prevent long term damage. Much long term damage means you have to live with really limited life quality, maybe even death. At least it is much harder to treat. Don 't mess around, it is heart or kidneys. Only really first rate testin...
by purple22
Sun Jun 02, 2019 9:36 am
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: Wrong Wrong Wrong; news paper article
Replies: 6
Views: 3535

Wrong Wrong Wrong; news paper article

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/27/well ... e-e.-brody

From the article: "The condition is on the rise because the most frequent cause is obesity,"

Any of you folks want to tell the author the truth?
by purple22
Fri Apr 19, 2019 7:36 am
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: Old but new, yeah I know sounds crazy
Replies: 14
Views: 1520

Re: Old but new, yeah I know sounds crazy

Nearly always suggested. Never try to sleep on your back. I get a lot of events, and not much productive sleep when I lay on my back. My spine and neck like it when I lay on my back, but I must focus on not laying on my back when trying to sleep. My next mask will be an F-20 full face mask with a ch...
by purple22
Fri Apr 19, 2019 7:25 am
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: Atenolol
Replies: 12
Views: 1233

Re: Atenolol

This is a beta blocker. Meaning. We have Beta something levels in our blood which, when reduced (in effect) reduce blood pressure. As we start a Beta-Blocker, our body will try to compensate by increasing it number of Beta (molecules?.) Eventually, the drug overcomes the number of Beta our body crea...
by purple22
Fri Apr 19, 2019 7:09 am
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: Newly diagnosed.
Replies: 7
Views: 758

Re: Newly diagnosed.

My first thought, off the top of my head. No offense.

Have you been screened for Diabetes?
by purple22
Sat Feb 23, 2019 8:12 am
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: Help! I wake up 6 to 7 times a night.
Replies: 8
Views: 4078

Re: Help! I wake up 6 to 7 times a night.

When was the last time you got a new cushion for the mask? Do you put on any skin oil, or have a method of cleaning cushion that damages its flexibility. I know that older head straps lose their elasticity, and make pain for me. Why it is an idiot idea for the control of product supplies be set by b...
by purple22
Thu Jan 31, 2019 9:27 pm
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: Off of insurance compliance, what does transmitting data do for me?
Replies: 32
Views: 3485

Re: Off of insurance compliance, what does transmitting data do for me?

I think the sleep apnea machine must have a microphone in it to detect snores. So by changing the firmware, some entity might listen to every thing around your bed.

I could not find tin foil to make a hat. I used two layers of aluminum foil.
by purple22
Thu Jan 31, 2019 3:27 pm
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: Colonoscopy and sleep apnea
Replies: 24
Views: 12406

Re: Colonoscopy and sleep apnea

I have three colonoscopies awake, no sleepy time drugs. I sign the paper saying the doc can apply drugs if he chooses too, in case something goes wrong. I think the doc said over forty percent of his patients do the procedure without sleepy drugs. That was over four years ago, and I have a terrible ...
by purple22
Mon Jan 21, 2019 8:07 am
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: Masks to try for a wider, flatter nose?
Replies: 6
Views: 692

Re: Masks to try for a wider, flatter nose?

Well Sheriff, might this fellow try the "mask of the last resort,' the FitLife Total face mask? To the OP: The body tends to change during the night, including, in my case, losing fluid and swelling off the face, which can lead to mask leaks. A mask liner is only under the silicon seal of the mask. ...
by purple22
Fri Jan 04, 2019 7:58 am
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: OT - diabetes diet
Replies: 25
Views: 3108

Re: OT - diabetes diet

Part of the answer might require we know what your insurance is. IE: Best choice: 1. See an Endo. 2. Take the course from the American Diabetes Assoc. I know I have Medicare, and I do not have the money to make this years deductible. $4xx.xx Ha Ha Ha. Like I am going to avoid it. For some, going to ...
by purple22
Wed Dec 26, 2018 12:35 pm
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: Help estimating costs
Replies: 18
Views: 4459

Re: Help estimating costs

The first person to answer the phone is usually not an expert on anything, unless they are subbing for the receptionist. The feelings some have here about DME's is both about expectation, and how they treat the DME Personnel. At least my experience has always been like I described here. DME's are co...
by purple22
Wed Dec 26, 2018 5:41 am
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: Help estimating costs
Replies: 18
Views: 4459

Re: Help estimating costs

I would rather not make statements of "all" unless I had done a good bit of research to be sure it is really true. In addition, it would be true if the savings was not minimal. And I am not sure how I would define minimal savings should translate. Anyway, one of the posters suggested that the price ...
by purple22
Mon Dec 24, 2018 8:13 am
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: Help estimating costs
Replies: 18
Views: 4459

Re: Help estimating costs

If the OP was using Medicare. Then often a DME is required to use a negotiated price for a piece of equipment. If ones income is low enough. Then the DME can choose to write off the Co-Pays. I would be a bit iffy on the DME writing off Medicare deductible, which I just read is like $4xx.00. Likely m...
by purple22
Sun Dec 23, 2018 4:33 pm
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: Help estimating costs
Replies: 18
Views: 4459

Re: Help estimating costs

Unless the landscape has changed. Internet providers will not accept insurance. An internet seller is pay for it all up front. The usual plan for insurance is for rent to own. Pay so much for a co-pay each month. I think, for Social Security, 13 months and it is yours. Insurance often uses a negotia...