Do you cuddle your hose? Be honest, now

General Discussion on any topic relating to CPAP and/or Sleep Apnea.

Hose cuddling:

Never
10
37%
I did once
0
No votes
My partner has a picture of me cuddling my hose but it looks fake to me
0
No votes
Sometimes, when no one is looking
1
4%
Often, and I am not embarrassed about it
15
56%
My hose replaced my teddy bear
1
4%
 
Total votes: 27

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Re: Do you cuddle your hose? Be honest, now

Post by pootsie » Sun Jan 05, 2014 10:02 pm

Islandwoman wrote:I cuddle my hose or it cuddles me I guess. It seems easier to keep positioned if I hang on to at least part of it. It is warm(heated) and soft and fuzzy(polar fleece). I just started CPap on November 24. I thought it would be impossible. The first hose and mask(wisp) were cold and crinkly or pinched. We had a cold spell in the teens first thing and I nearly drowned in the plastic nose and woke with a freezing stuffy nose for days. I called my Doctors' office and he prescribed the heated hose. I changed the mask myself to the Sleepweaver Advance and no more drips or cold painful nose. The first night with heat and Advance mask I slept 10 hours, unheard of for me. My hose deserves to be cuddled!
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Re: Do you cuddle your hose? Be honest, now

Post by jencat824 » Sun Jan 05, 2014 10:08 pm

Cuddling is my method of "hose management".

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Re: Do you cuddle your hose? Be honest, now

Post by Goofproof » Sun Jan 05, 2014 10:51 pm

I do not and never have Cuddled my hose. ( It would give me an inferiority complex). So as Bill Clinton says, not guility! Jim
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Re: Do you cuddle your hose? Be honest, now

Post by deerslayer » Sun Jan 05, 2014 11:08 pm

hate to disappoint. i use one of these i bought from our forum host
https://www.cpap.com/productpage/travel ... ystem.html

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Re: Do you cuddle your hose? Be honest, now

Post by Linus » Mon Jan 06, 2014 1:23 am

Always cuddle the hose on a camping trip where it will be cold at night. Doing so heats the air going into your lungs. Trust me, it sucks waking up with very cold air blasting into your nose. Cuddle the hose when under the stars at night.

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Re: Do you cuddle your hose? Be honest, now

Post by rkuntz » Mon Jan 06, 2014 6:51 pm

Funniest thread yet.
Thanks to all and to all a good night.

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Re: Do you cuddle your hose? Be honest, now

Post by Kiralynx » Mon Jan 06, 2014 11:02 pm

I don't, because the hose is USUALLY routed up and over, well-wrapped in a Pad-a-Cheek cover.

But one night, I woke up, and the air coming out of my mask was hot. Wondering if the heated humidifier was on the verge of blowing up, I tried to sit up, and couldn't. I was nailed to the bed.

I patted along the hose and discovered....

Mr. Shadow, my 38 pound, long, lean LARGE standard longhaired Dachshund, stretched out over the top of my pillow. He had detached the hose from the hose manager, and had the length of hose tucked between his legs and along his body, using my hose as an under-fur air-conditioner on a warm night!

I carefully reclaimed the house, sat up, reattached it to the manager, and lay back down. Shadow was quite disappointed.... if I'm wearing the Headrest which vents over my head, he'll try to position himself so it blows into his fur. The Tap Pap is a bit harder for him since I sleep facing the edge of the bed, and he can't -- quite -- get down along side me to let the exhaust blow across his fur...
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