Anyone use an autoset cpap?

bfreier · Post by **bfreier** » Mon Oct 24, 2005 7:44 pm

I am considering switching to an autoset cpap that changes pressure based on my needs? Just wondering if people found it more helpful? Also, which device do you recommend?

Severeena · Post by **Severeena** » Mon Oct 24, 2005 8:43 pm

I have the ResMed Auto Spirit and so far I have been sleeping all night a first for me since being on a CPAP machine since March. Yes a full night sleep and it is now the end of October and I have had my S7 Lightweight since March.

rested gal · Post by **rested gal** » Mon Oct 24, 2005 11:34 pm

Hi bfreier,

I use the Puritan Bennett GoodKnight 420E autopap. I like it very much.

Have gotten good treatment from autopaps I've used from all three major manufacturers. Had software for each. Very useful for monitoring one's own treatment and deciding what to tweak.

Kemosabe · Post by **Kemosabe** » Mon Oct 24, 2005 11:52 pm

I've got the Remstar Auto and am very happy with it. I can't imagine going to a standard CPAP.

Colorado Jan · Post by **Colorado Jan** » Tue Oct 25, 2005 8:15 am

I've been using a straight CPAP and doing pretty well on it...BUT I recently negotiated a change from my DME and insurance. They've ordered me a Puritan Bennet 420 E (Autopap) and that will be my permanent machine from that source. 100% paid by insurance.

BUT, I wanted a backup ...or one machine for home, one for travel, etc.....and I bought a Resmed Spirit with HH. That's on the way too.

AND....a Respironics Auto with C-flex (with HH) kind of fell in my lap shortly after I had committed to the Resmed Spirit...ahem....THAT's on the way as well.

I think I'm covered as far as machinery goes, don't you agree? Now i'll have to work on getting the software...ummm. Maybe next month, lol. Kind of broke the bank this month. And I've never used Autopap...don't know if I'll use these machines as Auto or just straight CPAP. I'll have to fiddle with them and figure it out. After I figure out how to explain all this to my husband!

But like I've said before. If we have to use CPAP, we may as well make it fun with TOYS and GADGETS!

Jan in Colo.

BP · Post by BP » Tue Oct 25, 2005 9:39 am

Jan, maybe you should start a DME business.

Guest-Ramona · Post by **Guest-Ramona** » Tue Oct 25, 2005 10:58 am

I'm new to sleep apnea and am using a loaner until I have my titration. It's a ResMed Respond APAP with a heated humidifier. I think it's great. It doesn't have the bells and whistles that I will want on my permanent machine, but I like the ramp and I very much like the automatic response to my breathing. I started keeping a journal with information about how I've slept and what my pressure is when I wake up. It's usually around 9, but this morning it was 10.3. If I was on a CPAP, it would not have increased the pressure according to my needs. I've decided that if my insurance won't pay for the bells and whistles APAP, I'm going to kick in the difference to my DME and get it anyway.

Colorado Jan · Post by **Colorado Jan** » Tue Oct 25, 2005 2:51 pm

Ramona...

Make sure you do the math before you just kick in the difference to your DME....

Seems I've read lots of people have found it as cheap or cheaper to just purchase it outright from CPAP.com. PLUS, CPAP.com gives you the manuals the RT's use to change your settings, so you have even more control of the situation. If you buy it from the DME, you only get the patient instructions, not the settings manual.

But you've already got the big step done and that is getting the prescription for the autopap in the first place. Try what I did...I called and said, well, this is a nice machine, but it is clunky, what else do you have that I might like better? Since I was in rental mode, they were going to just trade it out for me. But, then I got greedy as to the exact model and they made me agreee that if they ordered it for me, then it was mine to keep, no more trading it in. Because it wasn't a machine they stocked and they wouldn't really have a use for it if I tried to return it to them. I thought that was reasonable....

Anyway, call your DME and see what you can do...maybe they have one with more bells and whistles that you can get from them. DON'T mention software...that REALLY flipped them out, lol. Patients aren't supposed to have software, oh no, not THAT!

Jan in Colo. (too lazy to sign in)

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