Bedside Table Real Estate

My bedside table is a set of drawers and I had intended to put the machine in a drawer and realized that that wouldn't work because I needed to use the on/off button. So I put the machine on top and moved what used to be on top to a shelf on the wall. then I added the So Clean and it ended up on a shelf above the ipad/iphone shelf.

StuUnderPressure wrote:

SleepyStar wrote:I have my cpap on a tv tray to itself (it is the perfect height for my bed! go figure that a 15 dollar tv tray from Meijer does the trick over some fancy thing) on one side of the bed and another tv tray to put my bedtime reading, phone, tv & bed remotes (adjustable bed), drink, bite guard, etc. It's amazing how much the addition of that second tv tray helped out.

TV trays are not very stable.

A machine could be easily pulled off of a TV tray because of it's instability.

And a fall from that height could do some damage to the machine.
Or, get water into the machine from the humidifier - which could be even worse.

Well, the very solid bookshelf I had my CPAP on when I was living with my parents? I managed to tug on the hosing enough that I pulled the machine upside down off the shelf about 3 times in a couple of weeks right before I moved on my own. That was not fun, waking up because there's water in my face. Luckily my machine's fine but man that got water pretty far up in the sinuses pretty quick at 13 cm H2O... I don't think that's how they want you to do a sinus rinse

So the TV tray's working for now, once I get the new APAP sorted and the new orthotics so I can stop tripping and falling every single day I'll get a proper night stand, but I've also got the TV tray snuggled between the bed and the wall. It's not moving. The cpap hasn't moved either, which is the important thing. It'll do for a temporary basis now that I'm living on my own and adding furniture piecemeal.

I realize I'm not exactly the usual use-case for a lot of things in life, though.

I have way too much stuff on my night tables so I went to walmart and bought a 3 drawer plastic container.... works like a charm, my machine is on top and the 3 drawers hold my cpap stuff
And... it was ONLY $18.

I put the machine under the bed and run the hose up the head of the bed to a point above my head, where it is fastened to the wall with a rubber band at the hose junction point. The remaining hose angles down to my face. This points the vent of my swift fx mask out into the room and allows me to turn side-to-side without even thinking about the hose.

Under the bed has worked just fine. I can drop my arm over the side of the bed to turn it on or off, and the noise is significantly reduced.

nanwilson wrote:I have way too much stuff on my night tables so I went to walmart and bought a 3 drawer plastic container.... works like a charm, my machine is on top and the 3 drawers hold my cpap stuff
And... it was ONLY $18.

Would you be so kind as to provide a direct link to the exact item you bought?

THANKS!

jencat824 wrote:The machine with the clock is the F&P Icon, I have it but use it as my backup/travel machine. My PR 560 is worth the small amount of extra real estate on my nightstand.

I remember seeing a post here of someone who put CPAP in nightstand drawer, open at night, closed during the day. Cool idea.

Jen

I do mine in a nightstand drawer that is a little lower than the mattress level. The night stand is on wheels, so it can be moved away if I need to get to something behind it. The top of the night stand has a few items on it and room for the cats to walk through. I have the clock on the desk next to my bed, where i can see it when I want to.

When I travel, I take an old alarm clock that could annoy the dead (happy bird cheep sound), as traveling usually means getting up really early with maybe 6 hours of sleep max, and earlier than I am used to. I set a kitchen timer to go off 3 minutes before the alarm clock. If I am functional, I can get to the alarm and turn it off before it cheeps.

So, if my cpap machine had a clock in it, I would not use it. I would not see it where the machine is placed, and I would still use the alarm clocks that I currently use.