So happy for you, Sweetie .....guess we should have bullied you about this a long time ago.
Oh well...you've got it now and that's what matters!!!

Everyone has their own technique, I think there is a topic started on this very thing.  But, I breathe in through both my nose and my mouth, deeply and exhale through the mouth.  I breathe rather quickly.

Did you get the right mask yet.  I've said it plenty:  If we just ask our doc, they should supply you with a free disposable non-rebreather mask wrapped in plastic.  I get one or two every year;  If my wonderful dog chews through the air line or my husband uses it to cure his hangover and didn't brush his teeth first ...."eewww get your own mask!!".

So glad you got O2!

Angela

See....told ya so.

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Just curious about the costs? If I may what was the price for the M bottle regulator and mask(s).

Who owns the M bottle ? Who owns the regulator? I assume you own the mask(s).

Does the regulator have a gauge to say what amount of o2 is left?

My interest is is comparing lease and o2 supply, less any doctors bills.

I lease bottles, but I get actelene and 02 on the same lease for 200 bucks at 4 years. I own the regulators, and pay for exchange bottles as I use up the gases.

I am at 500 psi in o2 now so don't have much o2 left, and will soon discover in the year 2009 what o2 cost is.


And on edit: I re-read the entire thread..

Now you have a weapon, and you can controll the beast, and go to war with it. No longer can the beast controll you.

This in turn will allow you much more power, and if you want, you can let the beast win once in awhile. I find that works well for a reminder of what it wants, and then you can take it back again and be in controll.

An odd attitude, but now maybe you will understand me a little better.

I didn't come to this site to be Mr. Popular in the first place.

I had 3 nights PF and the beast returned last night, rearing his ugly head and I killed him before it got started. I got that tell tail sting in a nostril, and went for 02.

That was to teach the beast I wasn't playing this time.

Yeah, I am no brain in here, I don't understand like most others do, and I don't see the beast as some internal infliction, so I treat it differently than most. I treat it like this beast is something from outside my body, and I allow it to live, but in my way with my rules.

Doing so makes me feel a lot better about how this parasite effects me. It makes me feel empowered.

Since this harms no one else, and makes the battle worth the doing, sometimes I allow the beast to win. This makes an adventure.

So NOW YOU are IN Controll!   The rest of the learning will become habit.

Oh yes... last night I beat the beast at kip 2 in less than 10 minutes..

I can't wait for you to do that any time you want...  mac

I can see getting info from you requires some sweat.. 

What does the blasted regulator have to tell you how much o2 is left?

And just incase I scare you somehow, you can see me and my wife, and friends here if you wish. It is likey you will fear me then, but for a reason 
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For reasons I don't know, no one seems to post pics of themselves.

Medical regulators have pressure gauges on the high side. Expensive medical regulators also have an output gauge calibrated in liter per minute flow (not pressure)

I pay $18.50 for a refill of a T size welding tank (holds about 2.5 medical M tanks) that's 330 cu ft in welding tank terminology.

I pay $45/ yr lease on the tank and I bought my own mask. One regulator cost me $60 and the other was $45.

I use a welding regulator on the T tank at home and a 25 lpm medical regulator for the smaller tanks that I carry in my car, because it's compact. All of my regulators are CGA-540 so they fit both M size medical tanks and all welding tanks.

What did I miss?

Marc

Mac_Muz wrote on Dec 11^th, 2009 at 9:41pm:

I answered your questions to the best of my abilities.  I'm sorry if it appeared to you that it was difficult for me to do.  You don't scare me and I'm not sure why you would think that you do.

We are all here for the same reason, to offer and receive support and help.

Have a lovely day,

Jeannie

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I pay $12.63 a month for two M tanks.  My insurance covers 90% so my cost is only 10% of the total.   This includes one mask, one hose, a regulator with a gauge on it that indicates how much 02 it left in the tank.

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Apria owns both.  I am renting them.

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Yes

Jeannie

No apology needed, Mac.  I just wanted to try to answer your questions they best way I could.  I hope your cycle ends soon. 

Jeannie