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RE: Please help with treatment review - Osiris357 - 01-16-2020
Ask your doctor for a script and you can get that mask online for $100 US. Don’t pay what the DME wants. Mine wants $475 for the F30. That’s insane and should be illegal
RE: Please help with treatment review - DaveL - 01-16-2020
(01-16-2020, 11:41 AM)Osiris357 Wrote: Ask your doctor for a script and you can get that mask online for $100 US. Don’t pay what the DME wants. Mine wants $475 for the F30. That’s insane and should be illegal
I know...
In their defence, I used to have a far worse DME. Same pricing. Except....they sold packages. If you bought their machine, and humidifier, it came with the mask they sold. No substitutions. That didn't work for me.
I asked cpap users who they went to and if they were happy for years. I switched to this one...over 5 years ago. They allow me to try masks out. I can keep them for a week. The difficulty is getting there...it's two cities away.
Is there someone better where I live? Could be. So I'll keep asking people who use cpap who their dme is.
RE: Please help with treatment review - Osiris357 - 01-16-2020
Supplier #1 has free returns within a month. I get what you’re saying but $300 for that mask is highway robbery. $300 for any mask is highway robbery. To me they are taking advantage of people that don’t know you can get a script from your doc and buy them online for 1/3rd the price.
RE: Please help with treatment review - DaveL - 01-16-2020
Thanks.
However, I live in Canada. So returns across border are not fun at all.
RE: Please help with treatment review - DaveL - 01-16-2020
Called Sleep Management Group Burlington.
Bought my mask from them 1 May 2019. Seems like yesterday....
RE: Please help with treatment review - Sleeprider - 01-16-2020
Dave, you might want to check on cushion replacement costs. You can buy cushions separately from mask headgear. I really don't understand why you would not buy complete masks or components from someone like Supplier #10 who sells these for a fraction of the cost. You know the mask works.
RE: Please help with treatment review - DaveL - 01-16-2020
(01-16-2020, 04:41 PM)Sleeprider Wrote: Dave, you might want to check on cushion replacement costs. You can buy cushions separately from mask headgear. I really don't understand why you would not buy complete masks or components from someone like Supplier #10 who sells these for a fraction of the cost. You know the mask works.
Thanks.
My prescription for a mask was dated. It's more than a year old. Sleep doc's trying to sell me a machine and a mask....I'll get a new prescription.
RE: Please help with treatment review - DaveL - 01-16-2020
I've rearranged the chart as asked...
RE: Please help with treatment review - DaveL - 01-17-2020
I did better last night. Leakage was reduced; it was really good until early morning.
RE: Please help with treatment review - DaveL - 01-17-2020
Here are two screenshots; I'm not used to the arrangement and wanted to show leak rate....