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When the lights go out - OMyMyOHellYes - 11-04-2014

What happens when the lights go out and you are asleep w/ your CPAP going?

OMM


RE: When the lights go out - zonk - 11-04-2014

(11-04-2014, 08:40 PM)OMyMyOHellYes Wrote: What happens when the lights go out and you are asleep w/ your CPAP going?

OMM
zonked out

Edit: I did not realize its a poll
I would wake up but maybe not immediately


RE: When the lights go out - PollCat - 11-05-2014

I've experienced this several times here at home. When I travel, I use the AEIOMed machine and it has a built-in battery backup system.


RE: When the lights go out - retired_guy - 11-05-2014

I don't really know for sure. But it's getting to be the time of year for that to happen, so i expect to find out before too much longer.



RE: When the lights go out - mikeh99 - 11-05-2014

I wake up. Don't know about the immediately part though. I have a battery backup but it isn't automatic. I need to switch manually.


RE: When the lights go out - Galactus - 11-05-2014

(11-04-2014, 08:40 PM)OMyMyOHellYes Wrote: What happens when the lights go out and you are asleep w/ your CPAP going?

OMM

What about the option that in the poll that says "my pap stops working" Big Grin

Ok, but seriously last time this happened it woke me up virtually immediately.



RE: When the lights go out - lab rat - 11-05-2014

The reason we wake up is that we have become conditioned to assisted breathing via the machine and when that stops the apnea comes back.

In fact I cannot get to sleep without it.


RE: When the lights go out - Ghost1958 - 11-05-2014

When both wife and I are in bed any change in noise will wake me. Air conditioner running when I went to sleep and quit I wake up.

Ive gotten used to the sound of the machine even though its very quiet. It stops I wake. Clock we used to have out in the living room with the tick tock all the time run down and stop, I woke up. Always been that way about unexpected sound changes in the house.


Now if Im in bed and wife is up Ill sleep thru a tornado unless she wakes me LOL.




RE: When the lights go out - brianwood619 - 11-06-2014

mine is on a computer UPS that keeps it going for three hours during a power failure


RE: When the lights go out - Shastzi - 11-06-2014

I wake up right away from the sudden pressure drop as my mask hits me in face.
It's a bit jarring but I had to get up anyway to re-arrainge things from the loss of electricity. Tongue