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Altitude Adjustment?
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01-17-2018, 09:17 PM
Altitude Adjustment?
I'm going on vacation at 5000 ft., I currently live at 900 ft. What kind of adjustment am I going to have to make if any?
01-17-2018, 09:26 PM
RE: Altitude Adjustment?
Your machine will adjust automatically up 7 or 8 thousand I believe.
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01-17-2018, 09:30 PM
(This post was last modified: 01-17-2018, 09:38 PM by SarcasticDave94.
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RE: Altitude Adjustment?
You have a DreamStation, correct? I believe it automatically compensates for altitude. To what range of altitudes, I'm not certain, but I've seen over around 8,000 foot above sea level listed.
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01-17-2018, 09:37 PM
RE: Altitude Adjustment?
I just looked it up. It's 7,500.
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01-17-2018, 09:39 PM
RE: Altitude Adjustment?
Sounds like that will cover the OP's trip.
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01-18-2018, 10:20 AM
(This post was last modified: 01-18-2018, 10:23 AM by S.L. Ping Beauty.)
RE: Altitude Adjustment?
Even if your CPAP machine adjusts for sleep, your body will still need to acclimate.
I live in a region nearby to ski resort communities and many a tourist unaccustomed to the altitude can have difficulty concerns. Make sure that you are hydrated. In an alpine desert climate, one might think they are not sweating because of dry and cold conditions, but losing body fluids can and does happen. Reducing alcohol consumption can help. My local DME supplier of whom I happened to visit yesterday had a lineup of a few dozen returned O2 concentrator rentals from tourists that were on holiday ski vacations. Now that the crowds have subsided for the Christians season they are being returned... as much as I know the condition I which I live, I never realized how many tourists- be it planned or otherwise, take the oxygen up here.
01-18-2018, 03:03 PM
RE: Altitude Adjustment?
5,000 feet isn't so bad, but when I spend any significant amount of time 8,000 feet and up, I make sure I keep some Vaseline and Q-tips to apply a gentle amount to my nose to prevent nose bleeds from the dry air and with CPAP use, the nose may get even more dry.
01-22-2018, 07:19 AM
RE: Altitude Adjustment?
None required. machines operate on a differential pressure meaning it will maintain that very tiny differential pressure to ambient pressure wherever you are.
For reference, for those who fly commercial and have used PAP onboard (in all but the newer 787 and maybe Airbus 350), you are at a pressure altitude of approximately 8,000 ft above sea level. RVLIII
There. I said it.
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01-22-2018, 10:13 AM
RE: Altitude Adjustment?
Depending on how your body reacts you may get some more centrals than usual. The last time I went to Estes Park my centrals went up each day from a usual 2 to over 70 by the last day of the week. They would probably have gone back down once I had fully adjusted. I had a lot of trouble with altitude that trip which I had never had on previous visits. The joys of getting older.
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