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My Airsense is still quiet, but the old S9 was about the same age when it started losing data
and making odd noises. (4+ years)

knothead wrote: ↑

Tue Aug 21, 2018 9:24 am

palerider wrote: ↑

Mon Aug 20, 2018 1:38 pm

knothead wrote: ↑

Mon Aug 20, 2018 12:46 pm

, I know my S9 light comes on, it lights up the room...

That's so you can see to make it to the bathroom!

Funny thing PR, I no longer make potty calls during the night since starting cpap. The light on my s9 sure is bright though, I checked this AM and my 10 does light up the screen, just not as bright.

Ah okay I get you. I thought there was a little LED by the screen that would illuminate as a night light or something. There is a little clear light looking hole right by the screen and I thought that might’ve been the light but it likely is an ambient light sensor to automatically adjust the brightness of the screen.

Thanks for clarifying,

knothead wrote: ↑

Tue Aug 21, 2018 9:24 am

Funny thing PR, I no longer make potty calls during the night since starting cpap.

Not that funny, it's a common side effect of your body not going into panic mode all night long

Or, rather, having to pee all night long is a common side effect of breathing problems while sleeping. (SDB)

when your BP spikes, because you're fighting to breathe, your heart sends a signal to the kidneys to ramp up production of urine to lower the BP... and you've gotta pee. remove the fighting to breathe, and everything else calms down, including the kidneys lowering production.

CPAPSteve wrote: ↑

Tue Aug 21, 2018 11:09 am

it likely is an ambient light sensor to automatically adjust the brightness of the screen.

I believe that is correct.

This is what my "new" from the DME supplier (900 hours) machine sounded like

https://youtu.be/Pp_xMg3sHlg

Sound like yours?


Here is what the replacement sounded like

https://youtu.be/e2Hz7q9LuEU

My thread about it
viewtopic.php?f=1&t=118483

Good luck

Hi RonS,

My machine sound exactly like yours. I have called DME up and they said a respiratory technician will contact me. Hopefully they will replace it.

Any cpap machine that goes from being nearly silent to making any sort of excess and/or new noise needs to be checked out and probably replaced. They shouldn't be changing noise levels.

RonS wrote: ↑

Tue Aug 21, 2018 10:10 pm

This is what my "new" from the DME supplier (900 hours) machine sounded like

https://youtu.be/Pp_xMg3sHlg

Sound like yours?

I kept picturing a cow calf stuck on a fence when hearing that thing. That's not...normal.

My Airsense 10 is, for all intents and purposes, silent as a mouse. It's so silent in fact, I have to sometimes pull my pillows out just a bit to make sure the thing is still on.

kuk_sleeper wrote: ↑

Wed Aug 22, 2018 12:38 am

Hi RonS,

My machine sound exactly like yours. I have called DME up and they said a respiratory technician will contact me. Hopefully they will replace it.

Good for you. After calling them I drove to their distribution center and picked up the new machine.

Midwest_non_sleeper wrote: ↑

Wed Aug 22, 2018 7:40 am

I kept picturing a cow calf stuck on a fence when hearing that thing. That's not...normal.

My Airsense 10 is, for all intents and purposes, silent as a mouse. It's so silent in fact, I have to sometimes pull my pillows out just a bit to make sure the thing is still on.

Indeed! I've been doing this for more than a decade and I thought it was excessively loud (and tonal!) but it was a new machine (my first new machine) and a new brand, I wanted to see if my expectations were off. The tech at the DME said this is the way they sound when they fail.

Yet.... look at the poll in the thread at the people who said they couldn't tell of it was normal! Of course one of them was likely the banned YXXYZYXYXZ or whatever his name was.

Finally, notice that Pugsy gave great words of wisdom, Pugsy is always a blessing. <3

RonS wrote: ↑

Wed Aug 22, 2018 12:06 pm

Yet.... look at the poll in the thread at the people who said they couldn't tell of it was normal!

They had youtube volume turned off.

ChicagoGranny wrote: ↑

Wed Aug 22, 2018 1:00 pm

RonS wrote: ↑

Wed Aug 22, 2018 12:06 pm

Yet.... look at the poll in the thread at the people who said they couldn't tell of it was normal!

They had youtube volume turned off.

Funny as it may be, there may be more truth to that than we know.

Hahaha!

You guys are cracking me up

Yesterday night the machine stopped working. I mean there was no pressure and I woke up gasping. I tried power cycling the machine and tested the mask fit. I did feel any pressure and the mask fit test failed. I tried it again in morning and it seems to be working fine.

After multiple calls to apria, a technician called back. The respiratory technician asked me to come in with the machine. But the earliest appointment they have is after 5 days. Thankfully I just have mild apnea. I do not know how they expect someone with severe sleep apnea to be without CPAP for 5 days.

I am getting to see why apria has a bad reputation.

kuk_sleeper wrote: ↑

Thu Aug 23, 2018 10:58 pm

The respiratory technician asked me to come in with the machine. But the earliest appointment they have is after 5 days. Thankfully I just have mild apnea. I do not know how they expect someone with severe sleep apnea to be without CPAP for 5 days.

It's standard recommendation here to keep a backup machine. YOU are the best caretaker of your health.

ChicagoGranny wrote: ↑

Fri Aug 24, 2018 10:48 am

kuk_sleeper wrote: ↑

Thu Aug 23, 2018 10:58 pm

The respiratory technician asked me to come in with the machine. But the earliest appointment they have is after 5 days. Thankfully I just have mild apnea. I do not know how they expect someone with severe sleep apnea to be without CPAP for 5 days.

It's standard recommendation here to keep a backup machine. YOU are the best caretaker of your health.

I am finding that out the hard way.