What do you do with your hose?

[rileyrd22]

Another vote for hose buddy. After pulling my cpap off the table one night, i knew i needed a solution. With buddy i have enough slack to roll in either direction with the hose suspended above. Less wake ups battling the hose octopus as well.

[wm_hess]

For home use, I too use the Hose Buddy. For my travel kit, I use the Hozer https://thehozerinc.com/hozer-photos/ system. I've used the ones from Amazon mentioned above, and the post that holds the upright broke on me twice. If you don't take your support apart it might work well. Nothing's going to break the Hose Buddy, that thing is solid!

[bwexler]

I have a big faux antique headboard that I have had for almost 50 years (does that make it an actual antique now, like me) It has an opening about 6 feet up, that I drape the hose through. the hose hangs down over the center of my pillow and allows me to flop around like a fish out of water all night long.
I find that proper positioning of the hose over my forehead it actually pulls my Sleepweaver 3D mask just right to minimize leaks.

[trekwars2000]

The hose buddy seems like a lot for $50. So I just bought a curtain holder. It was a two pack for about $12 at home depot.

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[JayDee]

Same as PaleRider -- We had some of these large sized 3M "Command" hooks: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0753NHZVQ.

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They are supposed to hold 5lbs, and I believe it! I could probably get by with the medium sized ones (I think they hold 3lbs).

I stuck one of those on the wall above the head of the bed and hung a stretchy headband from it. The hose hangs with a bit of slack through the headband. Works a treat - so far... Since those command strips don't damage the surface they are mounted to, I figure they will work for travelling too.

-JD

[Okie bipap]

We run the hoses up over the headboard and use a 3M Command hook to keep them from sliding around too much. When we travel, we each use a Hose Boss to control the hose. I stick the Cozy Hose Boss to the wall above he bed and remove it before we check out. I found them on Amazon.

[hewl35]

I have a small spare pillow by the headboard. I just put a section of the hose behind the pillow and it will stay there all night! I flip from side to side all night.

[ChicagoGranny]

Actual answers:

it simply hangs down between the bedside cabinet and the bed. it doesn't bother me.

I just lay it out across my chest

I've got one of those 3m 'command' hooks stuck above the headboard (short headboard) and it goes through a velcro loop that's attached to that. it drops down around the middle of the bed, and works well for my modest purposes.

I use a microphone stand with a boom arm and some velcro

Some people strap it to their head

I just route it behind my headboard and bring it up over the top

I put a small couch pillow on top of it to hold it in place.

I avoid touching it when the cat is in the room.
If it moves, she thinks it is a bird.

There is a coiled cable that you run it through. Before that, it had a tendency to hang low

Mine just hangs wherever it wants

It hangs down over the center of my pillow and allows me to flop around like a fish out of water all night long.

I bought a curtain holder.

They are supposed to hold 5lbs, and I believe it! I could probably get by with the medium sized ones (I think they hold 3lbs).

I just put a section of it behind the pillow and it will stay there all night! I flip from side to side all night.

The winner: The guy who needs a microphone stand with a boom arm!

[djams]

Hah! Started chuckling as I was going through the compilation. Wondering where this was going.

I'll reluctantly 2nd your choice of winner!

[Stom]

The guy who needs a microphone stand with a boom arm!

Only because my movie light stand (a C-Stand) with the boom arm is being used elsewhere

Now, that being said, I regret overlooking an articulated mic boom arm (the kind you see them using in radio studios that look like swing arm lamps) I saw at a yard sale a few weeks ago for a couple for books. Now that would have been perfect! Er, as long as it didn't squeak ...

[Franniep51]

My hose is attached to the top/ back of my head. I drape the hose through my headboard. I have an iron bed with two parallel bars across the top. I thread the hose through that. My problem is keeping the mask on my head, I need a smaller one. Sleeping with a ponytail helps to keep it in place. Not a pretty picture, lol!

[chunkyfrog]

I collect hair elastics and scrunchies of assorted sizes and types.
They hang from my makeshift crane at home.
I hang them from the motel headboard with duck tape;
and safety pins or clothes pins do the sticky job if curtains hang over the bed.
The hose can slide or be held, depending on the size/type of elastic.
Command strips and I do not get along--they always break during removal.
Not as easy as they claim.

[Bons]

I'm an active sleeper so the hose used to get wrapped around my neck, or twisted under me, or I'd pull the ASV into the bed. Now I have a command strip hook on my wall above the bed, looped two cheap elastic hairbands together, and hang the hose through the lower hairband. Doesn't look so great but the general public doesn't pass through my bedroom, so who cares. Problem solved for less than $2.

[Slartybartfast]

Geez, kind of a personal question to ask a guy. But I guess we're among friends. For the most part.

Since you asked, I'm more comfortable wearing boxers. Less restriction, especially in hot weather.

In case you might be interested in my xPAP as well, I found wrapping the hose in a flannel cozy eliminated the, I guess, primal mental image that a snake was crawling on me. And I found that, even on cold nights, running the hose beneath the covers entirely eliminates rainout. Even when I'm using my old, much loved, Intellipap, which lacks a heated hose. I route the hose through the brass headboard, which serves to keep an inadvertent tug on the hose from yanking the machine off its stand next to the bed.

Well, I hope your curiosity has been assuaged.

[djams]

Geez, kind of a personal question to ask a guy. But I guess we're among friends. For the most part.

Since you asked, I'm more comfortable wearing boxers. Less restriction, especially in hot weather.

In case you might be interested in my xPAP as well, I found wrapping the hose in a flannel cozy eliminated the, I guess, primal mental image that a snake was crawling on me. And I found that, even on cold nights, running the hose beneath the covers entirely eliminates rainout. Even when I'm using my old, much loved, Intellipap, which lacks a heated hose.

Well, I hope your curiosity has been assuaged.

Hey Granny - new winner!