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by cancun
Sun Feb 14, 2016 2:38 am
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: The best way to drive a weed up insurance's ass with CPAP
Replies: 58
Views: 7319

Re: The best way to drive a weed up insurance's ass with CPAP

he fact that you can get oxygen from something plugged into the wall has always confused me, how could that be better to breathe but I am sure there is a reason. I could go into an overview, if you like... You would just be wasting your expertise! I still wouldn't get it! Thanks for the offer thoug...
by cancun
Sun Feb 14, 2016 2:28 am
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: The best way to drive a weed up insurance's ass with CPAP
Replies: 58
Views: 7319

Re: The best way to drive a weed up insurance's ass with CPAP

For some reason I am surprised you have not figured out how to make your own! I know the theory, compressor, nitrogen absorber, air valves, control circuit to switch between the two nitrogen absorber tanks... getting the raw materials in small enough quantities at affordable prices would be a chall...
by cancun
Sun Feb 14, 2016 2:15 am
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: The best way to drive a weed up insurance's ass with CPAP
Replies: 58
Views: 7319

Re: The best way to drive a weed up insurance's ass with CPAP

For some reason I am surprised you have not figured out how to make your own! I know the theory, compressor, nitrogen absorber, air valves, control circuit to switch between the two nitrogen absorber tanks... getting the raw materials in small enough quantities at affordable prices would be a chall...
by cancun
Sun Feb 14, 2016 1:12 am
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: The best way to drive a weed up insurance's ass with CPAP
Replies: 58
Views: 7319

Re: The best way to drive a weed up insurance's ass with CPAP

palerider wrote:
Stormynights wrote:I tried to find a used one for sale but it makes it hard to find one when hardly anyone ever owns one.
there's 34 of 'em listed on the dallas craigslist at the moment.
For some reason I am surprised you have not figured out how to make your own!
by cancun
Sun Feb 14, 2016 12:34 am
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: Sleep apnea patient abandonment? Anyone experienced it?
Replies: 50
Views: 6522

Re: Sleep apnea patient abandonment? Anyone experienced it?

[quote="MrGrumpy". He was a foreign trained doctor and Ive learned a long time ago foreign trained doctors usually are among the worst. Many come from non Western cultures where they are basically pushed into medicine because of family pressures. In many non Western cultures, especially cultures whe...
by cancun
Wed Feb 10, 2016 5:29 pm
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: First Sleepyhead Post
Replies: 54
Views: 7456

Re: First Sleepyhead Post

Ah well. I had a bad night, but my stats are misleading. I was actually awake until midnight or so, all the events around 11:30 were me trying to adjust the mask, seal my mouth, etc. The mouth sealing did not work so well after all and what finally woke me up was air rushing through my desert-dry m...
by cancun
Wed Feb 10, 2016 5:22 pm
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: New Airsense 10 CPAP
Replies: 17
Views: 3346

Re: New Airsense 10 CPAP

If you have not yet received the machine see if you can't get the doctor or DME to change it to the Airsense Autoset 10 an APAP machine so that you can use a range of pressures if you want to instead of one set pressure which is all you can use with straight CPAP. Most people like their Resmed Airse...
by cancun
Wed Feb 10, 2016 10:31 am
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: Urgent help before appointment in the morning please!
Replies: 34
Views: 4318

Re: Urgent help before appointment in the morning please!

I would be honest with the doctor as you want to be sure she prescribes an APAP machine versus a CPAP machine. Have you been using the Sleepyhead software? If so print out the data so you can take it with you and show how well you have been doing with managing your own care and explain to her that y...
by cancun
Tue Feb 09, 2016 8:54 pm
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: miss Pugsy
Replies: 102
Views: 11911

Re: miss Pugsy

The "concern trolls" have been effective in dumbing down the forum. I don't understand this? I don't understand this either. I think I am missing something. Well, I think the lack of understanding makes the original "concern" about the dumbed down direction of the forum true? It also means Black Sp...
by cancun
Mon Feb 08, 2016 1:23 am
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: Especially for newly diagnosed - Dealing with Change
Replies: 245
Views: 684416

Re: Especially for newly diagnosed - Dealing with Change

I found out today I have severe sleep apnea and will have to go on the machine for the rest of my life. Actually reading through the forum made me feel a little worse. I am sleep walking through life, can't hold a job, suffering from PTSD from a shooting I was injured in 2 years ago. I am never res...
by cancun
Sun Feb 07, 2016 12:17 am
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: First Sleepyhead Post
Replies: 54
Views: 7456

Re: First Sleepyhead Post

Thank you Thank you Thank you! I'm going to raise my pressure to 8-14 now, and go up to 16 tomorrow, probably. I'll go over the Imgur settings before I post another screenshot, too. I tried a few masks and settled on the Amara View hybrid. I'm not a mouthbreather, but the pressured air leaks out my...
by cancun
Fri Feb 05, 2016 10:25 pm
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: How do you try another mask? (while keeping the first)
Replies: 16
Views: 6943

Re: How do you try another mask? (while keeping the first)

I imagine it depends on your DME and insurance. My DME did not make me return the first mask when giving me the second mask. I don't believe they can reuse your mask. Just ask them, you have nothing to lose.
by cancun
Fri Feb 05, 2016 9:50 pm
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: It amazes me on here
Replies: 32
Views: 5292

Re: It amazes me on here

Goofproof wrote:
MrGrumpy wrote:Whats wrong with being a right winger?

maramane wrote:He's also a super freak right wing nut
You give us right winger a bad name, how long has your right wing been broken? Jim
Is it nice to have a new member in your club Jim?
by cancun
Sun Jan 31, 2016 7:15 am
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: Views on vaping and electronic cigarettes
Replies: 50
Views: 6716

Re: Views on vaping and electronic cigarettes

What are your thoughts on vaping and electronic cigarettes as an alternative to traditional cigarettes. Using them to keep me off cigarettes but never sure if they are safe to use with regards to the sleep apnoea and lung issues. Ask your doctor what he/she thinks, there still isn't enough informat...
by cancun
Mon Jan 25, 2016 12:04 am
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: PROPOSAL FOR ALL SEASONED MEMBERS:
Replies: 150
Views: 22579

Re: PROPOSAL FOR ALL SEASONED MEMBERS:

Proposal Summary: I'd like to thank everyone who participated in answering my original questions in this thread. Contrary to what some have misinterpreted, there is no right or wrong answer to either question. I chose to start this thread because I have noticed that when particularly bad flare ups ...