Palerider, I am going to have to start charging you tuition. Any time any form of cellular modem (CPAP type or let's say even a cellular flood water meter sitting on a sluice gate on a lake far far way) is used the way it was engineered, the computer logs in that signal (a form of serial number soft...

Themaskedman, you raise an excellent point. Putting aside your data being collected past the 90 day compliance, and who knows whether your usage afterwards may used by insurance to deny future claims such a heart condition worsened by sporadic use. There is a more subtle reason that some may not app...

Dear Chicago Granny and Palerider: I have read many of your posts and really respect your expertise with PAP therapy and especially how to figure out how to manage this gawdawful new lifestyle. I suffer greatly with OA and use a PAP myself. You are to be commended for helping PAP users for years all...

While the article pasted via link below is an egregious example (January 2018), it is clear that selling Class II medical equipment (CPAP) without being licensed to issue a prescription for such Class II equipment is a federal criminal offense. Any one of us is unlikely to be prosecuted unless you a...

Dear Fattongue: While you certainly present a different issue than what is usually posted here, and as you have seen, a few juvenile posters couldn't resist showing how insensitive they are (such folks please look up "karma" definition before you next post something designed to hurt someone who summ...

The situation you present seems very difficult to solve. These thoughts are not based on experience except for number 3 below. You will have to follow the "pick any two" paradigm of "Cheap/Fast/Good." I assume you are in Miami far away from your home. Therefore, 1) FAST/GOOD: see if you can call you...

Dear Showboats: I am intuiting the Norfolk Broads are the canal system in the UK and are used with the long narrow canal barge boats that we have seen on our travels to the UK and Belgium/Netherlands. While I cannot tell what CPAP you have from your post, please note that there are lithium battery p...

Keep in mind your CPAP sleep data is a gold mine of information. If you have breaks from it at night, pharma will pay for names of those with possible prostate issues, and insomnia pharmaceuticals if you have much delay in falling asleep (see swj info for breathing "fingerprint" of tortured drift of...

Dear Pugsy/Palerider/Dreamdiver/Julie (The Mt Rushmore's of this Blog (sorry for any unintended omissions)): I had an unexpected but most welcome outcome last evening as I did not have any OAs or CA's just something like a RERA (0.0 AHI). I am not certain how I hit upon this result but the sleep its...

Pugsy: Thank you for the fast response. No, I have not slept one minute without the PAP in place since starting 28 days ago. I napped on Christmas day for a hour or so in the afternoon but still wore the PAP during the nap. I range from a low of 5.5 hrs of sleep for one night (shortest) to 9.3 hrs (...

All: Just following up a bit after my initial post. After really digging into more of the posts as well as just about all of the extremely helpful overviews on PAP data and interpretation of same on this site, I concluded from analyzing my own AutoBiPAP data on an event-by-event basis that I was sti...

FWIW, I removed the cellular modem from my dreamstation, easy. I've read on this blog how to do it for resumed, need to pop out embedded modem. Putting dreamstation into airplane mode or using dial to shut off modem is a fools errand as respironics has embedded software that turns modem back on in 3...

Thank you so much for the encouragements. It is an honor to have some of the board "Yoda" types respond to my first posting and I did indeed take the time and effort to try to post correctly in respect for this god-send cpap blog and the advice and comfort has been great. I haven't heard boo from pr...

Dear CPAP Talk Members: I am 61 and brand spanking new to PAP therapy. My wife of 35 years has always told me I suffer at night, as I snore, snort, twitch, and have apnea. My wife was so correct. I have had the common side effects from apnea, i.e., high blood pressure, overweight, and developed a he...