Please Share Misc Helpful Hints

To eliminate squeaks in mask elbows, apply shine serum for hair with a fine makeup brush. Citre Shine and Organix smell good (orange and coconut respectively) and take care of any noise.

goose wrote:I never keep any of my xPAP in the bathroom......Yech!!! Gross!!!!
From my perspective it's not a very sanitary thing to do with items you're going to push into your lungs.....just me......
Most everything is kept with the xPAP machine.... goose

Newbie here, but you've got that right! Studies have shown that there are e.coli bacteria on every surface in the bathroom. Every time you flush the toilet, it sends a very fine mist of everything that's in the toilet. Totally GROSS!

I don't even store my toothbrush and water glass out in the open. I won't even put my mask down on the countertop in there.

My husband and I both are CPAP users. I found that a small step stool (1step folding) works perfectly to hold our CPAP machines.(Each of us have our own)
It keeps our CPAP machine below the bed; is small but stable.
! Our headboard actually allows us to loop our tubing around
a spiral post in the morning so it drains any moisture back out of the tubing; the little CPAP mask bag also hangs on the post-so clean the mask; pop it
back in its cloth bag until night time.

I am having real trouble getting my mask to seal properly. I have tried out many masks. However I had a thought, it doesn't happen often hahahah, I have ordered a roll of boob tape/wig tape/body tape to see if this will help seal. I'll let you know.

I'm a newbie and waiting for my equipment to get delivered. This thread has been both very helpful and yet overwhelms me too!! It seems like there is so much to do, so much to worry about and prepare for.....seems like I'll need a butt load of paraphernalia to clean it, maintain it, fix it and take it on trips!! Ughhh

I need help. My cpap pillows are difficult to exhale through. I'm just on my second night but all I do is lay in bed and labor through my exhaling. I'm way too fatigued.

If your pillows are two layers, the inner cone may be inside-out.
This happens when they need to be replaced.

I also washed and disinfected hose, humidifier and mask like crazy the 1st 2 weeks, and quickly decided too much work!! I use CVS Soft Cloths Supreme- SENSITIVE. They are baby wipes. These SENSITIVE ones have no alcohol or aloe, so safe for use with mask. Buy the dispenser when you first buy them, then buy refill packs to refill dispenser as necessary. I buy them when on sale- keep an eye on the sale paper every week. I got 5 resealable packages of 64 each- total 340 cloths, so when ripped in half, have 680 half-cloths, last week for $5.99, less than half-price!!! I am set for nearly two years!!!

1. Wash hands well.
2. Tear each cloth in half once out of the dispenser. Put other half back into the dispenser for use tomorrow night. Be sure to close the dispenser tight so they don't dry out!!
3. At bedtime, clean mask with the half-cloth, then clean face where mask will sit, then throw the half cloth away. The mask will sit very well, without leaks, because no face oil on your face where mask will rest all night.I use the Swift Fx mask, so I clean the nasal pillows and the entire plastic apparatus the nose pillows are supported by.

4--. optional- but you might a cleaning freak.....you can clean the mask in the morning too with the other half cloth, if you want, and throw the cloth away, but you will run out of cloths faster.
5. Put your mask under the pillow in the AM and make the bed over it. Kitties don't bother with it. Out of sight, out of mind.

I bought the dishwasher safe H51 humidifier bucket, and throw it in the dishwasher about once a month. I use ONLY distilled water in the humifier. I clean my heated Climateline hose with vinegar and water (1:10 ratio)r that same day, and hang it to dry in from the shower rod in the powder room where the toilet is broken and will not flush so we don't use it, so no bacteria dispersed in the room to end up in my hose. I change the heated hose every 6 months. The toilet cannot be repaired & needs replaced- (something the landlord will not do.) At time for next lease=signing I will petition him for a handicap toilet (taller for my new knee replacement) and will hang the tube in my closet then with a little dishpan under it to catch any wayward drips.

Newbie here, after VA looked at my at-home test results, have sent me a ResMed Airsense 11 to begin my CPAP journey. Looking for any helpful advice getting used to this specific device.Thanks.

Patrick
Palm Harbor, FL

Patrickgpiper wrote: ↑

Sat May 24, 2025 6:45 pm

Newbie here, after VA looked at my at-home test results, have sent me a ResMed Airsense 11 to begin my CPAP journey. Looking for any helpful advice getting used to this specific device.Thanks.

Patrick
Palm Harbor, FL

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