![]() *Excluding the following areas: Baton Rouge, LA, Honolulu, HI, Poughkeepsie-Newburgh-Middletown, NY, and Scranton-Wilkes-Barre, PA."įrom information I found here, it seems that maybe Aeroflow Health might both supply Bleep equipment and also bill Medicare. "Lincare is a contracted Medicare Provider for CPAP Equipment, Supplies and Services.* I saw in the BleepSleep forum that Lincare might meet my needs, but I saw the following on their website that they don't cover Honolulu, HI. I was told by the local rep here in Honolulu, Hawaii that Apria doesn't carry Bleep and also that she doubted Medicare would cover it, especially the disposable Dreamports. My current CPAP supplier company is Apria. In the morning, it was still stuck on, just like the 2nd one - which I did clean.I'm a 6 month Medicare CPAP user who's having a problem finding a company that carries the Bleep Dreamport system and also accepts Medicare for payment. I forgot to clean the tape area before I put the first port on one night. The tape is firmly in place for me every morning. I'm lucky in that my skin in neither sensitive nor oily. Getting that sample from Pugsy is the best way to know for sure. Not much to add to what PR and Pugsy have said on this. I'm between M and L pillows and go back and forth, hoping expectantly. I've got a lot of hair and it just doesn't stay put. They'd leave a red patch for a couple of days.Īlthough I like my P10 best, I do find the headgear fiddly in the middle of the night. (Non-paper type.) I can't even use sensitive Breathe Right strips. But I often have problems with hospital tape. Heck.if Stuart can use a sock we can sure use mesh.Ĭan you say something about the adhesive? Does it remind you of other kinds of adhesives? I've never had a problem with a bandaid. If you look at palerider's picture of the resmed filter.you can see that it doesn't even come close to sealing shut the holes and actually if it was taped to the holes and as long as the tape didn't touch the holes.there is enough openness of the mesh filter to allow adequate venting. Stuart (who came up with this mask) is a cpap user for over 22 years and he is also a sleep lab tech.he's well aware of the cautions and potential issues.if he is comfortable with these ideas then I am comfortable with them. Stuart even used a sock to test as a diffuser. The force of the vented air through the holes is sufficient for adequate ventilation as long as there is somewhere for the air to go. You just don't want to totally seal the holes like with tape or some plastic of some sort. This comes from the manufacturer and they have tested it with the gauze as well as denser products and there is still enough air movement out the holes to not cause a carbon dioxide build up. Ultimately what is in the design plans (at least at this time) is a little clip on cover where a person snips off a piece of gauze and slides it over the vent holes and then the little clip holds the gauze in place. I didn't have any of the standard mesh ResMed filters, that I could find anyway, other than the denser hypo allergenic filters and didn't want to use it as it was and didn't want to pull it apart.so I opted to try a Resprionics System One Filter put on like Palerider did his.it works.a little small but it works. Then Palerider came up with using the mesh standard filter from a ResMed machine.did you see his picture of his little trick? Once the tape came loose I just used it without any diffusing and discovered it was a non issue for me. ![]() I taped up by the top of the silicon part of the mask and tape just doesn't stick well to silicone. ![]() I didn't use any tape anywhere around the vent holes. I used it the first 3 nights like that and then the tape securing the gauze came loose. All our cpap life we have had "don't block the vents" drilled into our heads and then the first thing we go and do.we sort of block the vents. I was also a bit nervous and that's why I used only 1 layer of gauze material. I had an old piece of gauze left over from a tooth extraction. Thanks in advance.Ī layer of gauze (pull a gauze pad apart) will diffuse it enough so it pretty much feels like the P10 diffusing and it still lets the carbon dioxide get expelled. I would want something to spread out but not block the co2. Would all the co2 still be able to come out of the vent? This is the only thing that makes me nervous. I had question about the Dreamport venting and putting a homemade filter to diffuse.
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