water in my tube

[saskman]

Hey here is what is happening my cpap sits on my night stand, and during the night the hose drapes down between the bed and night stand and gets a build up of water in it, to the extent I wake and have to drain it back into the humidifyer container, how can I stop this from happening?

[nanwilson]

Do not have your cpap higher than your head. Actually mine is at the same level as my head, but I root the hose up over my headboard then down via a homemade hose caddy. Do a search on hose management.....lots of info there on the same subject. When you route your hose over your head board, the condensation just runs back into the humidifier. My hose caddy is a wall plant hanger which I screwed to my headboard and attached my hose to it so it hangs right over my head.
Good luck
Nan

[dave21]

Hi,

I used to have the same problem on my S9 and H5i with the ClimateLine until I found out how to manage it. I was in exactly the same position, my S9 was around head height (slightly lower), but the hose would dangle down between the bed and the bedside cabinet and water droplets would accumulate in the mask throughout the night and eventually (with our old friend gravity) make it's way down the hose and congregate in the lowest part of the hose. If I then turned over I would move the hose and this could sometimes find some of the water now being higher running back towards the mask.

The way to combat this that I found was to keep the hose high. I have the hose coming from the machine and I have a pillar bed, so I wrap the hose around the puller once which raises the height of the hose slightly, then it drops down over the headboard to my face. There's still a large section of the hose that is body height draped over me whilst I sleep, but I find this is the best way to combat what we usually call rainout and allow the water to evaporate and go out of the mask rather than running back down the hose. Having it run down the hose also can cause problems with reducing the amount of airflow coming from the machine as it's hitting water and doesn't have the full diameter of the hose to provide optimum treatment.

Hope this helps.

Thanks
Dave