afraid I'll drown

I have been using the bi=pap st for several years and just received a vpap st=a. I seem to be getting so much water in the hose it blows drops of water onto my face. the water fill line is below the max line and i get so much water in the mask that i wake up choking, is this normal? It surprises me that a water droplet can go all the way through the 8 foot hose and hit my face. I have actually had to pour the water out of the mask.

Is your machine (? newly) located above your head? If so put it on a lower level even if by just a few inches, so water will return to the machine instead of you.

Exactly which model VPAP ST-A?
Which mask?
Sounds like a ResMed machine since they are the only ones to use the term VPAP....is it the S9 model? If so...there's a heated hose available for the S9 or the newer AirCurve model line.
Heated hoses are probably the easiest way to deal with condensation in the mask or hose.
See this thread posts number 2 and 3 for other options.
viewtopic/t94035/Pugsys-Pointers-3Deali ... -road.html

I have used a commercial fiberfill insulated hose cover for perhaps 10 years with excellent freedom from rainout. I do not have a heated hose machine, and I run my CPAP humidifier rather warm.

TheDuke

I tried many times with Google to find even one CPAP related death. The only thing I ever found is one falling out of a window and hitting somebody over the head.

Remember that if one is tethered to a CPAP six hours per day - and we make the simplifying assumption that deaths are evenly distributed throughout the day - one would stand a 25% of dying (eventually) while tethered to CPAP.

Despite that, I still did not find even one instance of "CPAP related death."

Unexpected water on the face can be unpleasant.
I have been known to pull off my mask in order to dry off my nose.
In my case, it is condensate from my breath.
Not often enough to freak out about, though.
Just time to turn up the furnace.

On one of my older machines I used to have this issue, don't have it with my S9 Autoset with Climate Line heated hose. I used to joke with my SO that I was being waterboarded, and that I would reveal the secret egg salad recipe!

Put the machine below you so the water drains down away from you, and play with the heat setting on the humidifier. Also, a hose cozy can help with preventing condensation.

I would do three things:

1. Get a heated hose and find a good temperature setting for it and a good humidity level setting that works for you.
2. Put an insulated hose cover on the hose.
3. Move your CPAP machine so that it's lower than the level your head is at.

Pugsy wrote: ↑

Mon Oct 08, 2018 6:28 am

Exactly which model VPAP ST-A?
Which mask?
Sounds like a ResMed machine since they are the only ones to use the term VPAP....is it the S9 model? If so...there's a heated hose available for the S9 or the newer AirCurve model line.
Heated hoses are probably the easiest way to deal with condensation in the mask or hose.
See this thread posts number 2 and 3 for other options.
viewtopic/t94035/Pugsys-Pointers-3Deali ... -road.html

I second this. The heated hose can go a long way to reducing water.