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Re: Problems With CPAP Tubing
Posted: Mon Dec 28, 2020 11:01 pm
by zonker
Movieman wrote: ↑Mon Dec 28, 2020 10:45 pm
Thank you palerider. This was the issue. Everything is working great now. My current hose is slimline non-heated and the machine was set to slimline. The hose I purchased said it was standard size. When I went into settings and picked “standard” on the menu, the hose worked with no problems.
Thanks everyone!! Great forum.
thank YOU for letting us know. even though the solution had nothing to do with me, it's still great to hear good results!
Re: Problems With CPAP Tubing
Posted: Mon Dec 28, 2020 11:05 pm
by Pugsy
I have been on cpap over 11 years now.
I am trying to remember when the last time I actually cleaned the hose after the initial 6 months when I first started therapy and was religious about doing a once a week cleaning of everything. That got old real fast. I abandoned that schedule.
I might have cleaned one 5 or 6 years ago but that was because I was checking for holes in it as I found my cat playing with it.
I had to use soapy water to check for leaks from kitty claw holes.
Your choice though. All depends on just how much it bugs you or not. Obviously it doesn't bug me very much but I cast no stones at people who want to adopt any sort of different cleaning (or not cleaning) schedule than mine.
Re: Problems With CPAP Tubing
Posted: Tue Dec 29, 2020 12:06 pm
by palerider
Movieman wrote: ↑Mon Dec 28, 2020 10:45 pm
palerider wrote: ↑Mon Dec 28, 2020 3:38 pm
Is the new hose the same diameter (the hose itself, not the connectors at the end) as the old one? is the old one a heated hose? Did you adjust the host size in the machine's menu?
Thank you palerider. This was the issue. Everything is working great now. My current hose is slimline non-heated and the machine was set to slimline. The hose I purchased said it was standard size. When I went into settings and picked “standard” on the menu, the hose worked with no problems.
Thanks everyone!! Great forum.
Great! The 'slimline' setting causes the machine to operate at a higher pressure to compensate for pressure losses due to the greater resistance of the smaller hose. Not setting the hose properly would have caused you to have higher pressure at the mask, and strange other behavior
Glad it's fixed!
Re: Problems With CPAP Tubing
Posted: Tue Dec 29, 2020 1:10 pm
by chunkyfrog
"Over cautious", that's it!
Too many lawyers, too many skeezebags, litgation city.
Everybody needs to cover the hinie more than ever.
Re: Problems With CPAP Tubing
Posted: Tue Dec 29, 2020 4:48 pm
by Movieman
Pugsy wrote: ↑Mon Dec 28, 2020 11:05 pm
I have been on cpap over 11 years now.
I am trying to remember when the last time I actually cleaned the hose after the initial 6 months when I first started therapy and was religious about doing a once a week cleaning of everything. That got old real fast. I abandoned that schedule.
I might have cleaned one 5 or 6 years ago but that was because I was checking for holes in it as I found my cat playing with it.
I had to use soapy water to check for leaks from kitty claw holes.
Your choice though. All depends on just how much it bugs you or not. Obviously it doesn't bug me very much but I cast no stones at people who want to adopt any sort of different cleaning (or not cleaning) schedule than mine.
Ha! Lol I can relate to your cat playing with the hose. I have two cats, but I’ve been lucky so far. They seem to ignore the hose.
For now!!
This is good to read. Others on the forum and in this thread also found that cleaning the hose isn’t necessary. It’s good to see that it won’t make me sick if I don’t clean it. After a little over a month on CPAP, I hate cleaning the hose.
