Mountain Air

ColinP · Post by **ColinP** » Tue Apr 29, 2008 2:50 am

I went camping up in the mountains with the family for the weekend (long weekend here, with yesterday being a holiday). Even though I was sleeping in a tent on an inflatable mattress that needed blowing up halfway through the night, had no humidifier (running on 12V), and had to keep the hose under my bedding to stop my nose freezing off, I still got a better AHI than I did last night at home. Saturday was 8.1, and last night I was at a rather disappointing 23.

Must be the mountain air, or the walking that did it.

Of course without this forum, I would not have known how to connect my CPAP to my battery (I use a home-made cable connecting directly to the battery), nor would I have thought of the trick of putting the hose in the sleeping bag to warm the air.

Off topic, we had a great weekend, did a good long walk of about 15 km up the Tugela Gorge, turning around near the bottom of the second highest waterfall in the world. The kids have decided that they love hiking, and I have decided that the best way to slow down an 11 year old with too much energy is to let her carry the backpack with all the lunch and extra clothing needed. She loved it, and still out-walked the rest of the family.

Colin

p2pjunkie · Post by **p2pjunkie** » Tue Apr 29, 2008 5:16 am

My lowest ever recorded AHI was while sleeping on a half-inflated air mattress after a night of excessive drinking.

At home I added a memory foam mattress topper. I think it's helped some to lower my AHI.. It kinda has the same sink-in effect.

I'm considering adding excessive drinking to my nightly routine. The things we forced to do for effective treatment.

Cheers..

ColinP · Post by **ColinP** » Tue Apr 29, 2008 6:33 am

I'm prepared to try the heavy drinking as long as I don't have to do the half-inflated mattress again. I'm taking a foam mattress next time, and I don't care how much space it takes up!

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Tue Apr 29, 2008 2:13 pm

If you REALLY don't care about space, invest in a decent twin sized AirBed or other brand of "spare bed" air mattress, rather than the "pool raft" sort of air mattress, then top that with a nice thick slab of tempurpedic style foam.

I did this for camping in the back of my Subaru. My nose touches the ceiling of the car, but it's HEAVENLY on my back!

LOL,
Babs

CentralScrutinizer · Post by **CentralScrutinizer** » Tue Apr 29, 2008 5:17 pm

speaking of portable heated humidifiers... Have you ever seen those USB powered coffee warmers? USB is like 5 volts DC... I saw a USB coffee warmer that claims to be able to warm to 80c... Anyone ever try to make a heated humidifier from a USB coffee warmer and other objects one might be able to find around the house, etc...

Or, are there any heated humidifiers out there that operate on DC and won't drain a reasonable sized battery down in less then one night?