Kaiser's Covered California Plan for DME sucks. I'm not even sure they'd provide a wheelchair if you could no longer walk, although they claim to have DME coverage. https://healthy.kaiserpermanente.org/content/dam/kporg/final/documents/health-plan-documents/eoc/ca/individual-family/2024/off-silver-7...

To help us help you, we need some information: Brand name of machine (Typically Philips Resperonics or ResMed) Model of Machine (usually written on the front--you have said alternately CPAP and BIPAP. Please confirm. Type of mask (full face, nasal, nasal pillows, nasal cradle)? Brand and name of mas...

You're asking for positive stories, but I'm going to tell you the opposite as a warning. I was sick all the time as a kid, I caught everything and missed a lot of school for mostly upper respiratory infections (and I had undiagnosed cough variant asthma, but that's another story). My mom couldn't st...

Unfortunately this is not an Apria lie, this is a new rule set forth by Medicare to and I quote "stop fraud" Well, that sucks. I haven't had DME coverage in about 10 years, I just buy my own masks from our hosts at cpap.com or "parts" from Amazon and eBay. Since the masks last a LOT longer than the...

Another cool air person here. We don't have AC, and I don't bother to chill the water, but during the summer when it's warm, the air from the CPAP is always cooler than room air, and I often put my hands or wrists in front of the vent on my mask to help myself cool off. During the winter we keep our...

We need to know which mask you are using. There have been some documented issues with leakage around the elbow that connects some masks to the hose, particularly full face masks. Sometimes it's a matter of paying attention to that spot and PROPERLY seating the elbow and the mask, sometimes the mask ...

But in the context of evaluating a likely-OSA-sufferer, the real purpose of most home sleep tests these days is simply to look for some/any indication that PAP therapy may be helpful to the person. If that indication is not found in the home sleep test, it is time for the likely-OSA-sufferer to get...

Nasal cushion masks are very nice for side sleepers, and they are engineered KNOWING that the tube on the pillow side of the mask WILL get compressed. It's not a problem. So if the mask is comfortable and works OK, then a maxim you probably used in the military applies--"if it ain't broke, don't fix...

You might try getting a recording pulse oximeter--about $30 on Amazon to see what your 02 levels are doing during the night. That can be one explanation for headaches, even though your AHI is good and you feel rested.

Somewhere in that understandable anger your are feeling (it's actually one of the stages of grieving for this newly diagnosed condition your are grappling with), it sounds like you are willing to work to make this better. We can help. You may be having more apneas with the machine than in your sleep...

ffetcher, How did you end up with that bricked dinosaur???

Just because other people had no problems with the shingles vaccine doesn't mean that some people will. I know people who have really had bad reactions to this vaccine, and it's not unexpected, according to the literature. Still better than the actual disease. I've had vaccines where I've gotten ver...

If you are running through all of the water in your tank before the night is over, consider whether you might be mouth breathing. While it doesn't matter pressure-wise in a FF mask, it makes a difference to your therapy in a nasal mask, and in any mask it can cause a lot of drying of the mucous memb...

I agree they are playing to an audience of people who don't like the idea of CPAP in the first place, and using that to sell their product, which is expensive, invasive, and not the best treatment for everyone. That's how commercialism and capitalism work. But the implication that Inspire is inheren...

When the hose rests on your pillow or mattress, you may have some conducted noise from the machine through the hose and your pillow or mattress. I also don't like the hose touching me anywhere. I use a hose hanger. I have a homemade jury-rigged hose hanger with a pully system on a wall-mounted bedsi...