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- 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?
- 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...
- 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?
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?
- 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...
- 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...
- 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?
Have you been screened for Diabetes?
- 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...
- 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.
I could not find tin foil to make a hat. I used two layers of aluminum foil.
- 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 ...
- 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. ...
- 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 ...
- 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...
- 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 ...
- 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...
- 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...