Cpap and camping
I know this subject has been discussed here before but honestly most of this is over my head so I'm looking for a simplistic answer if that's even possible. DW has a Phillips IP22 Cpap. 12v 6.6 a. Use...
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" It seems the entire sleep therapy industry is really just a sham. Respironics builds the test equipment, does the analysis and recommends Respironics CPAP machines. Everyone is happy, everyone gets paid and the providers can continue to charge $50 for a dollars worth of plastic. I wonder if anyone has a sleep study and does not receive a recommendation for a CPAP"
My experience has been my therapists were woefully educated. Low O2 levels and triggered "wake up" brain signals can and do cause life threatening medical conditions. The Pakistani therapist insisted I needed an O2 concentrator - a device that ends dreaming of boondocking, forever. 520 watts 8 hours a day.
My sleep supplier protested and finally fitted me with a recording pulse oximeter after I spent two years down here with an added FORTY FIVE DOLLAR PER MONTH electric bill. I paid a Mexican cardiologist the eqvt of one hundred dollars to sit beside my bed with an eletrocardiogram running but not recording.
The Pakastani educated (Paid for by MediCare) failed to tell me that sleeping on my back negated one hundred percent of any benefit that positive pressure breathing assistance provided regardless of pressure setting - Negated 100% of any benefit of the oxygen concentrator. Dr. Gutierrez also definitively proved I have Central Sleep Apnea.
Back for another sleep study with Doctor Alqueda. After he mumbled platitudes in the morning I nailed his ass to the office wall. I was a most unpleasant patient. Point after point I detailed his fraudulent incompetence. Patients in the waiting room had shocked expressions on their face as I stormed out.
Wasn't done. I reported his transgressions to the Feds and to the State of California Medical Board. In detail. Result? The Sleep Study Center at Doctor's Medical Center in El Sobrante, CA. went out of business and doctor Imbecile was disbarred.
This point being...
Health issues can So Easily bar someone from boondocking RVing. If those issues involve positive pressure airway breathing - CPAP, BiPAP, O2 concentrator...
And a "decision" imperils your ability to RV...
Get a second opinion. From a different facility.
Secondly TRUST NO ONE. EVER! Recording pulse oximeters are no longer expensive these days. Look on eBay. If the result of the pulse oximeter disagrees with a sleep study Rx - the machine, the setting and any specific instructions it's time to visit another Sleep Study specialist.
Like Dr. Alqueda, there are too many QUACKS in this discipline, and a misdiagnosis can mean abandoning RV'ing as a diversion. I missed two years of RVing because of this and when I dumped on the "play dokter" I made my unhappiness crystal clear.
Done. Hope this helps someone.
My experience has been my therapists were woefully educated. Low O2 levels and triggered "wake up" brain signals can and do cause life threatening medical conditions. The Pakistani therapist insisted I needed an O2 concentrator - a device that ends dreaming of boondocking, forever. 520 watts 8 hours a day.
My sleep supplier protested and finally fitted me with a recording pulse oximeter after I spent two years down here with an added FORTY FIVE DOLLAR PER MONTH electric bill. I paid a Mexican cardiologist the eqvt of one hundred dollars to sit beside my bed with an eletrocardiogram running but not recording.
The Pakastani educated (Paid for by MediCare) failed to tell me that sleeping on my back negated one hundred percent of any benefit that positive pressure breathing assistance provided regardless of pressure setting - Negated 100% of any benefit of the oxygen concentrator. Dr. Gutierrez also definitively proved I have Central Sleep Apnea.
Back for another sleep study with Doctor Alqueda. After he mumbled platitudes in the morning I nailed his ass to the office wall. I was a most unpleasant patient. Point after point I detailed his fraudulent incompetence. Patients in the waiting room had shocked expressions on their face as I stormed out.
Wasn't done. I reported his transgressions to the Feds and to the State of California Medical Board. In detail. Result? The Sleep Study Center at Doctor's Medical Center in El Sobrante, CA. went out of business and doctor Imbecile was disbarred.
This point being...
Health issues can So Easily bar someone from boondocking RVing. If those issues involve positive pressure airway breathing - CPAP, BiPAP, O2 concentrator...
And a "decision" imperils your ability to RV...
Get a second opinion. From a different facility.
Secondly TRUST NO ONE. EVER! Recording pulse oximeters are no longer expensive these days. Look on eBay. If the result of the pulse oximeter disagrees with a sleep study Rx - the machine, the setting and any specific instructions it's time to visit another Sleep Study specialist.
Like Dr. Alqueda, there are too many QUACKS in this discipline, and a misdiagnosis can mean abandoning RV'ing as a diversion. I missed two years of RVing because of this and when I dumped on the "play dokter" I made my unhappiness crystal clear.
Done. Hope this helps someone.
