Posted by D.H. on February 15, 2012 at 20:37:49:In Reply to: Re: Your 1st few weeks with CPAP posted by Marty the Noze on October 17, 2011 at 23:39:42:
I started twelve and a half years ago (August of 1999). My doctor prescribed an F & P HC-201. That model, long since discontinued, was the only one with a built-in heated humidifier available at that time. It was rather noisy and large by today's standards, but I traveled to quite a few places with it. At that time, the heated humidifiers on the market were not dual voltage so (other than getting a humidifier for Europe or carrying a bulky and unreliable converter) there was no way to have heated humidification in countries that had 220-volt electricity.
The mask was not all that different from the mask I use today. There have been a few minor improvements in the mask design, but no real breakthroughs.