(08-14-2021, 03:13 PM)DaveCar Wrote: there it was.. little black bits all over the place.
As a dearly departed friend used to always say, be sure to do your "Due Diligence". It sounds as though you're indeed doing that. Consider also writing up an official letter to send to your DME. It can be attached to an e-mail, but just make it a separate attachment. Describe in detail the steps that you took. (Now you can say that they've been informed; so, in a way, they're a passive witness to your events.)
Early on, there was one U.S. and one Canadian law firm that took the leads on a class action. I'm not sure where they're all at now. I believe the Canadian one is Thompson, but there may be others now. Let them know where you're at and consider asking them for their advice too.
I'm not sure if you previously mentioned it, but were you a SoClean user? Was your device ever brought in for a "periodic cleaning" at a DME, who may have used SoClean? I assume your system was purchased new with zero therapy hours registered on it. Were there any circumstances that may have exacerbated the breakdown of foam, such as operating in a higher heat or humidity environment?
If all of these are "not applicable", and you had a significant amount of foam breakdown within 3 years under "typical use", then there must be a very large user base of others just like you whose evidence of possible foam ingestion via foam decomposition would never be known once Philips eventually performs their "fix"/replacement. I congratulate you for "knowing".
Sleep labs do extensive cleaning cycles every time they switch users. The condition of the foam in those systems must be almost non-existent in Philips systems. Some of them continue to use older Philips systems. I'd suppose they've rapidly switched over to non-Philips devices within the last few weeks.
Please keep us updated on how things generally evolve in your various efforts.