Prescribed CPAP settings setup for replacement machine

Hi Everyone,

It was during extended travel when I lost my bag with the CPAP machine. I purchased the exact same machine (Resmed Airsense 11) locally to be able to continue therapy and brought it home with me, but it has not been calibrated for my prescribed parameters. My CPAP monitoring provider said they won't setup a machine that is not sourced through them and directed me to my doctor to do this. I have a hard time finding the right way to resolve this. I understand that CPAP device provider can setup a machine for me if I buy another one from them (I will have to pay 100% because insurence will not cover it again less than a year after the therapy started initially) - this is the first option. I can't really believe there is no other option to bring a machine to be setup and monitored. Doctor's office is not super helpful with this either. Should I simply reach out to other CPAP providers to see if they can setup a machine and start doing the monitoring and supplies delivery for me?
I can't believe there is no option to setup machine sold elsewhere - it doesn't make any sense. What happens if you simply move accross the country and simply have to switch providers?

Thanks for your help

G'day always-tired, welcome to the forum.

You don't need to rely on a provider to set up the machine for you - it is an easy DIY setting. See here: https://www.apneaboard.com/resmed-airse ... setup-info

To get the best out of the machine, get hold of the clinical manual, available from Apnea Board: https://www.apneaboard.com/adjust-cpap- ... tup-manual

To monitor your therapy, you can use Oscar and/or SleepHQ - links are in my signature below.

Demand to see the results from your sleep study... your doctor is required to provide this, no matter how long it's been. You can set the pressures etc, we can help you. You now have a good machine, don't buy another unless you just want to. I have three!

Respirator99 wrote: ↑

Tue Mar 26, 2024 9:51 pm

G'day always-tired, welcome to the forum.

You don't need to rely on a provider to set up the machine for you - it is an easy DIY setting. See here: https://www.apneaboard.com/resmed-airse ... setup-info

To get the best out of the machine, get hold of the clinical manual, available from Apnea Board: https://www.apneaboard.com/adjust-cpap- ... tup-manual

To monitor your therapy, you can use Oscar and/or SleepHQ - links are in my signature below.

Thank you! Yeah it works, so one problem solved. I will look into monitoring now. How does that work? I thought it needs to be done by professional, but it doesn't seem to be the case, correct?

always-tired wrote: ↑

Tue Mar 26, 2024 10:35 pm

I will look into monitoring now. How does that work? I thought it needs to be done by professional, but it doesn't seem to be the case, correct?

If you require compliance for insurance or licensing purposes, then professional monitoring may be an issue. But for most of us it's quite easy to do it yourself. And as vandownbytheriver said, the people on this forum can help you. For do-it-yourself, you have basically two options - Oscar and SleepHQ. The links to both are in my signature. In both cases you will need an SD card in your machine (if not already there). The SD card can be any normal card less than 32 Gb, which you can buy from a department store or pharmacy.

Oscar is a completely free program you download into your computer (must be a real computer, not a phone or tablet). Place the SD card in your computer and Oscar will download the data. It will then show you lots of graphs and statistics so you can get really detailed information about your respiration. SleepHQ is different - your data resides in the cloud, so you need to upload it to the SleepHQ server, but it gives you a similar set of graphs. SleepHQ has a free version with some limitations or a paid version which includes access to the community and various discounts and other perks. Being cloud based, SleepHQ will work with any computer, tablet or phone that has a web browser and can take a plug-in card reader. With both programs you can either post an image (Oscar) or "share link" (SleepHQ) so that others can see your results and provide advice and guidance.