Cheapest CPAP Option For The (Effectively) Uninsured

Before retirement, I let my work computer do all the fancy math (least squares adjustment, etc.)
Consequently, I had let my math skills slide. When I got my Airsense 10, I believed that I had the S9 Autoset for 4.5 years.
Somehow I had added a year! Imagine that!
---But we are getting off the topic. Is the OP still around? Or was he hoping for a deal here? Or a handout?

chunkyfrog wrote:Before retirement, I let my work computer do all the fancy math (least squares adjustment, etc.)
Consequently, I had let my math skills slide. When I got my Airsense 10, I believed that I had the S9 Autoset for 4.5 years.
Somehow I had added a year! Imagine that!
---But we are getting off the topic. Is the OP still around? Or was he hoping for a deal here? Or a handout?

hopefully, he's browsing craigslist or secondwindcpap

Krelvin wrote:This will change after today though.

Interesting concept. I will check tomorrow and see if you are correct.

OP,

Keep in mind if you buy the CPAP through your insurance, all of those copays are working toward meeting your deductible, should you have further medical expenses come up. If you buy your machine off craigslist, you may not get as good of a machine or a new one, and then you spent that money and still have your full deductible to meet for other medical expenses. Typically high deductible plans have flex spending accounts as well. You don't have anything like this?

I really am stupid. It just now occurred to me that I am on a different forum than the one I frequented before. D'oh.

You kids have fun. ttfn.

Elle wrote:I really am stupid. It just now occurred to me that I am on a different forum than the one I frequented before. D'oh.

hrmph!

PR, I didn't mean that you mean girls would scare me off the entire forum. There are too many lovely, intelligent, decent folks here to disappear from cpaptalk. I just meant I would skip the bully section. You girls are just too darn silly. Hopefully you'll be out of your teens soon and will realize how repugnant bullying is. In the mean time you carry on getting your jollies any way you can. Have a good day darlin.

I find adolescent boys entertaining, even when they act like lesser primates than their parents.

chunkyfrog wrote:I find adolescent boys entertaining, even when they act like lesser primates than their parents.

SEEEEEE chunky likes me (most of the time), and that's good enough for me!

who's my favorite frog!!! <3

Elle wrote:PR, I didn't mean that you mean girls would scare me off the entire forum. There are too many lovely, intelligent, decent folks here to disappear from cpaptalk. I just meant I would skip the bully section. You girls are just too darn silly. Hopefully you'll be out of your teens soon and will realize how repugnant bullying is. In the mean time you carry on getting your jollies any way you can. Have a good day darlin.

well, ok then... I'm not trying to scare off hardly anybody, honest.

So, about those Craigslist machine transactions, I'm finding that when I email people directly about smoking in the home, I often don't get an answer. They'll answer other questions, just not that one. Actually, the other question that is avoided is regarding amount of use. Avoiding questions is probably a red flag.

Is there any chance someone is selling me a rental? I see photos showing the machine with a sticker label on it -- maybe from the DME?

Craigslist. An autoset for a few hundred dollars (or less). It should be set to to a few cm above and below your prescribed setting and a full face mask is your path to success. Read all instructions. Medicine and pharmacology are schemes to get money into more deserving hands.

InsomniacGuy wrote:So, about those Craigslist machine transactions, I'm finding that when I email people directly about smoking in the home, I often don't get an answer. They'll answer other questions, just not that one. Actually, the other question that is avoided is regarding amount of use. Avoiding questions is probably a red flag.

Is there any chance someone is selling me a rental? I see photos showing the machine with a sticker label on it -- maybe from the DME?

Depending on what you are looking to buy, you might want to check with the folks here who are more of a known entity first. You may get exactly what you are looking for and without all the second guessing. Just a thought. Greyghost 4 and I both have PRS1 560P for sale that have already been vetted and would/could save you the hassle of venturing out on your own. Of course, if you like a challenge or a little risk in your life, then go for it! It might be fun...

InsomniacGuy wrote:So, about those Craigslist machine transactions, I'm finding that when I email people directly about smoking in the home, I often don't get an answer. They'll answer other questions, just not that one. Actually, the other question that is avoided is regarding amount of use. Avoiding questions is probably a red flag.

Is there any chance someone is selling me a rental? I see photos showing the machine with a sticker label on it -- maybe from the DME?

I have purchased two machines so far via Craigslist and have been very happy with my purchases.

(1) I will not purchase a machine without personally inspecting it first. I can do this because I live in a major metropolitan area and I don't have to go hundreds of miles to perform an inspection. That takes care of any questions about smoke and usage, plus I check all functions of the machine (e.g. does the humidifier heater still work). "Trust, but verify" (sounds better in Russian, because it rhymes). Were it a screaming deal I would take a chance on a machine from a smoking household and experiment with getting the smell out, but it would have to be a SCREAMING deal.

(2) I haven't walked away from a deal yet, but I am always prepared to do so when I am Craigslisting because I am buying backup/replacement machines, and am not desperate for a primary machine. I can't believe how much more secure I feel now that I have (a) backup machine(s) bought at leisure and (b) a backup power source in cause of an outage. I don't know why I waited a couple of years to set this up. I really have not been in denial about needing this machine for life, but I guess it just took me a while to follow this thought to its logical conclusion.

(3) I have been limiting my searches, and therefore my purchases, to PR machines because that is the only manufacturer whose product line I feel I fully understand. However, I'm Autoset-curious (EPR might feel better than Flex+, e.g.). Now that the Airsense models are out, I might take a flyer on an S9. I'm too lazy to get up to speed on F&Ps and the like.

Drowsy Dancer wrote: However, I'm Autoset-curious (EPR might feel better than Flex+, e.g.). Now that the Airsense models are out, I might take a flyer on an S9.

I've recently had two people tell me "that S9 vpap auto is soooo smoooooth!" after being used to a prs1 560 machine.

they can step forward and comment if they like