u/TheBeerZombie

Hi everyone,

I got a new vibroloc ring for my No8 but it’s pretty tight. I took the ring off and applied some Vaseline to the collar before putting the ring back on.

It didn’t seem to help so I cleaned off the Vaseline and tried some Hoppes lubricating oil but that was only remedially better.

I’ve seen some folks say they “enlarged” the ring. How do I try doing that? By forcing it wider with reverse pliers? Tamp it down on a wood dowel?

Any other suggestions to get it to operate smoother?

Thanks in advance!

Since using my machine I’ve been about 1 events per hour per hour! Woo!

There are occasional bumps where it goes to 4 or 5 but last night I had 11.6 events! 😵

I can’t seem to correlate this with anything (being excessively tired, going to bed later, drinking, etc)

I have been disconnecting my mask tube from the black tube when I go to the bathroom and just tucking the black tube under my pillow.

Could this be skewing the event reading?

The rep that gave me my machine recommended baby shampoo, which seems odd to me. But I’ve been using it since I got the machine.

One weekend, I had a brain fart and used dish soap and that seemed fine too.

What do you guys use to clean your gear?

Hi everyone,

I’m about 18 days into using my CPAP and, overall, I love it.

The issue I’m having is that I’ll wake up in the middle of the night to use the bathroom and then am unable to breathe well when I put the nose pillow back in.

Im straining and having using accessory muscles to breathe and I wind up not being to tolerate it after this point.

It’s either that or sometimes I wake up because I feel the same difficulties (and not because of the bathroom.

A little pulse ox I bought says I’m at 95% O2 Sat when I feel this way.

I called the sleep clinic and have:

•turned off ramp • (they) increased my pressures

The odd thing is that when I first put on the pillow, everything is awesome, I’m totally comfortable and I fall asleep right away.

It’s only later on that this develops.

It’s happened for 3 days in a row now but I HAVE had days of easy use (I’ll get up and re-attach the pillow with no problem).

Calling the clinic again today but wondered if anyone else experienced this or had any ideas/suggestions.

Sorry for the long post.

Thanks in advance!