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Re: How long have you been using your xPAP machine?
Posted: Sun Jan 18, 2009 9:44 pm
by GumbyCT
oh 721 days going on 722
Re: How long have you been using your xPAP machine?
Posted: Sun Jan 18, 2009 10:51 pm
by tillymarigold
Almost two years. All night, every night--only missed one night in two years. Best thing that's ever happened to me. I finally got my life back after decades of being a zombie!
Re: How long have you been using your xPAP machine?
Posted: Mon Jan 19, 2009 8:36 pm
by J Neutron
I've been on a machine for over 20 years.
When I was in the Navy, when someone said they had been "in" for over 20 years, the standard reply was "Do trees live that long?"
Jim
Re: How long have you been using your xPAP machine?
Posted: Mon Jan 19, 2009 11:10 pm
by CollegeGirl
My 4 year anniversary will be in March. Still going strong.
Only missed one night in all that time, due to accidentally leaving it at home when I drove six hours away. Had I been staying more than that one night, I would have found a DME locally and gotten one - but we didn't get in and realize it was missing till 11 p.m. I gotta say - worst night of sleep in my whole life. lol
Re: How long have you been using your xPAP machine?
Posted: Mon Jan 19, 2009 11:17 pm
by Amontilado
Five years this April.
Steve
Re: How long have you been using your xPAP machine?
Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2009 3:22 pm
by lifeartist
I am still somewhat struggling after almost two years, but I have not given up. I have nights that are good, and some bad ones too. Masks are a real problems, I ordered the same one I used before with success, and the new one fit completely differently. For all the cost, should there be a mask made to fit each of us individuallly?
Re: How long have you been using your xPAP machine?
Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2009 4:10 pm
by SeaPappy
Soon to be nine years, but only with me at the helm for the last few months since I found this site.
Re: How long have you been using your xPAP machine?
Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2009 4:23 pm
by slacker361
this will be years 7 but i had a crappy cpappy......an s6........i now haavae the greatest the s8elite II
Re: How long have you been using your xPAP machine?
Posted: Wed Jan 21, 2009 9:24 am
by packitin
Well, that's hard for me to answer. I used one for about a year and a half, off and on. That was an old Respironics, when a man came to my house, showed me how to turn it on and what a mask was. I knew absolutely nothing. I went that way for over a year, not knowing if I was improving, or why I was doing it. I may or may not put the thing on when night came. I don't ever remember even washing the mask or hose!!!! I became frustrated and turned the thing back in. In about 2 years, my daughter convinced me to get another sleep test, as I was clearly snorting and snoring and jumping around in bed.
When I did, my sleep doc told me to get on a forum and learn all I could. That was last July. Now, here I am, and the last time, 3 weeks ago, he told me I was one of his most informed patients. I'm a fast learner, but also a very foolish person at times. Well, no one is perfect.
Jay