Quiet BiPAP recommendations ??

Birdseed · Post by **Birdseed** » Wed Jan 23, 2008 9:48 pm

Just wondering if anyone could recommend a nice QUIET, compact, and lightweight BiPAP with humidifier. I have the M-Series Auto BiPAP -- which makes a rather noisy whining sound that is disturbing to me, albeit it is compact and lightweight. I bought a used BiPAP Pro 2 by Respironics and find it much more quiet and can easily get to sleep with it, but the bugger is bulky for travel.

Birdseed

blarg · Post by **blarg** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 5:34 am

I highly recommend the tank BiPAP Auto. It makes a much quieter constant pitch that's much easier to sleep with than my M Series Auto CPAP that makes a loud varying whine.

KAZ · Post by **KAZ** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 6:27 am

Interesting,must be luck of the draw, I have two m series Bi Pap Autos and they are very quite. Now it may be that they will not stay that way, one is as new in a back up role,and the other has only been in use for seven months.To bad we can't listen to them before we buy. Regards

Birdseed · Post by **Birdseed** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 12:00 pm

Thanks Blarg and KAZ. I tend to agree it's the luck of the draw with the M-series since mine is less than 6 months old and makes an annoying whining sound. I was wondering if the ResMed brand might be more quiet in general, but no comments from ResMed BiPAP users yet.

Birdseed

elliejose · Post by **elliejose** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 5:07 pm

Birdseed,

As others have suggested, the older classic "Tank" Remstar auto Bipap is much quieter than the M-series. I requested the M because I wanted the smaller size, but I tried and tried - thought that I'd become accustomed to the noise - But after 9 months, I was no more used to it than at the beginning so (because I was still in the 10 month rental time frame) I was lucky enough to be able to exchange it for a Classic Remstar Auto Bipap. I love it! Noise is no problem for me now. But as some say it is just luck of the draw. But everyone I know with the older version Auto Bipap has absolutely no problem with the noise. Not so with the M series. Good luck to ya with your problem.

GumbyCT · Post by **GumbyCT** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 6:56 pm

KAZ wrote:Interesting,must be luck of the draw, I have two m series Bi Pap Autos and they are very quite. Now it may be that they will not stay that way, one is as new in a back up role,and the other has only been in use for seven months.To bad we can't listen to them before we buy. Regards

I think it has more to do with the pressure they are used at.

But that is JMMO - (Just My Meaningless Opinion).

GumbyCT · Post by **GumbyCT** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 6:57 pm

KAZ wrote:Interesting,must be luck of the draw, I have two m series Bi Pap Autos and they are very quite. Now it may be that they will not stay that way, one is as new in a back up role,and the other has only been in use for seven months.To bad we can't listen to them before we buy. Regards

I think it has more to do with the pressure they are used at.

But that is JMMO - (Just My Meaningless Opinion).

ps. I think that useless integrated humidifier also increases the noise level.

Mask

Additional Comments: Also have the RemStar BiPAP Pro2 with Humidifier and Encore Pro