Re: High Altitude - Sleep Apnea (new CPAP)

[Guest guest]

Very good suggestion. I will call Respironics and RemStar for my next

new CPAP machine. I would like to get one that operates on bateries

for camping trips, and has a high altitude adjustment. The home care

health providers just order the cheapest ones.

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[Guest guest]

Hi One more comment on CPAPs. My RemStar which is Respironics brand is over 4

years old and about the size of a good sized show box and can be battery

operated. It is for 12 volt use like a normal car.

I went on an outreach mission to a remote place in Mexico with my churches youth

a year ago. There was no electricity. I bought the adapter for my CPAP and got

some other adapters from Radio Shack. I bought a car battery and a good marine

plastic case for it. I bought a solar collector from Harbor Freight. I was

able to be without electricity for 2 weeks. The setup ran my CPAP fine, it also

ran some good tent lights and at times some music and radios. It is a little

bulky but doable.

My next project is to find a lighter and perhaps more powerful battery. I used

to go backpacking into the wild a lot when I was younger. I gave that up about

10 years ago, that was about 6 years before I was Dx'd with SA and PA. I can't

go back packing with a car battery. I tried a lawn tractor battery with the

solar collector. They are still 8-9 pounds and the collector is about 8 x 18

and an inch or so thick. So I am still searching for a lighter battery and

have some good leads. I am searching for higher quality and smaller solar

collector too that can be smaller and go on my backpack during the day to charge

the battery.

Respironics has a new CPAP that is about the size of a small tissue box, or

about 6 x 6 x 6, that I have my eye on. Anyway where there is a will there is a

way. I just will continue to work on my project of miniturization of my setup

and I think I will be able to go backpacking and scouting again. My boys will

love it and me too.

I hope some this might help you, if you have any ideas or questions feel free to

ask, thanx

Randy

<><May we all be DASHing!!!><>

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From: " airlinerg " <airlinerg@...>

Sent: Saturday, January 19, 2008 7:35 AM

hyperaldosteronism

Subject: Re: High Altitude - Sleep Apnea (new CPAP)

Very good suggestion. I will call Respironics and RemStar for my next

new CPAP machine. I would like to get one that operates on bateries

for camping trips, and has a high altitude adjustment. The home care

health providers just order the cheapest ones.

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Hyperaldosteronism is

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[Guest guest]

Sleep Apnea is an underdiagnosed problem and a lot of people with

hyperaldosteronism DO have sleep apnea. I do not know why but I will

post a new surveay to check this on our group.

Thank you for this valuable information.

Also there is a Sleep Apnea Groups at

sleep_apnea

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[Guest guest]

I recommend we bounce polls off of the group for editing etc before

we actually send them.

CE Grim MS, MD

High Blood Pressure Consulting

Clnical Professor of Medicine Medical Colege of Wisconsin

Board certified in Internal Med, Geritrics and Hypertension.

Interests: The effect of recent evolutionary forces on high blood

pressure in human populations.

On Jan 19, 2008, at 11:19 PM, airlinerg wrote:

> Sleep Apnea is an underdiagnosed problem and a lot of people with

> hyperaldosteronism DO have sleep apnea. I do not know why but I will

> post a new surveay to check this on our group.

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> Thank you for this valuable information.

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