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Re: Pulling my machine off the table! Help!

Posted by Cue Miller on October 05, 2001 at 19:17:39:

In Reply to: Re: Pulling my machine off the table! Help! posted by tracker on October 05, 2001 at 17:47:14:

Just so everyone knows that it can be done ....

I fill up the humidifier chamber and turn it on. I hook the hoses. I hook the long hose to the bed's headboard with a clamp and bungee cord to keep it over my head. I put on the mask (in my case, the Breeze). I turn on the CPAP. I go to sleep. I wake up in the morning feeling refreshed and ready to go.

That's it. No big effort. No hassles.

Luck? Yes, partly. Preparation? Yes, a lot of thought and effort went into the basic setup so I didn't have to reinvent it every night. Patience and ingenuity? To some extent, yes. I was determined to make it all work for me, and it has.

High points along the way have included learning to breathe through my nose for the first time in my life, having a septoplasty to get my nose to work right again and having nasal polyps removed, finding nasal pillows/Breeze headgear, and benefiting greatly from heated humidification.

It can be done. I've been reasonably happy and slept pretty well almost every night for three years now.

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