CPAP Machine

Just die in your sleep. The world will be a better place.

Or lose some weight fatass.

>>1034041
What does it do?

>>1034041
No. Don't DIY something that could kill you.

Unless you are a mechanical engineer with access to a well equipped shop, anyway.

>>1034043
It publicly demonstrates what an inability to use google looks like.

>>1034044
They need to be exactly calibrated or else you injure your lungs with over pressure and you can't exhale while asleep and your diaphragm is exhausted.

>>1034057
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I've got one of those OP, not because I'm a fatass (Though I probably could do with losing a bit of weight) but because I have fits in my sleep that mess with my breathing.

I tend not to use it though because it's a pain in the ass, if I don't wake up one day I guess it'll be pretty hard to explain to my family.

>>1034041
put down the fork

assuming you could create a machine capable of sustaining your life

>you can't

you could not make it for less than $800 unless your time is worth nothing and you live on a giant pile of moderately used medical equipment.

>muh ingenuity
>what is mass manufactuing

>Stepper motor
>Bellows

Job done.

>>1034242
The C stands for continuous. You're thinking of BiPAP machine which is even more complicated.

>>1034244
Ah okay.

In that case, two bellows.

No you need 15 bellows made out of titanium. You'll also need a few shipping containers full of imatation crab meat. Once you have those items get an aquarium tank air pump and shove to tubes down your urethra, should work wonders.

>>1034042
Spooky skeles have sleep apnea too. FYI.

>>1034057
You have fucking idea what you are dribbling about.

Most cpap machines run at a max of 20 cm h20. That is equal to about 0.28psi. Can you exhale while being under 20cm of water? Yes, quite easily.

If you need more pressure than 20cm h20, you are generally morbidly obese.

>>1034041
OP,my non-fatass dad has one of these.I care about him.I dont care about you.I recommend you not nigger rig breathing apparatus and get med approved gear because surely someone out there doesnt want you to die stupidly.

>>1034096
You and i both know youre pushing 3 bills fatty.

>>1034315

>Most cpap machines run at a max of 20 cm h20.

What makes you think OP's nigger rigged air pump will have a similar max pressure to a commercial unit?

>>1034041
http://www.secondwindcpap.com
http://1800cpap.com
Heaps more sites, just google.

Buy an auto machine and then never need to do a sleep study again. Don't let them tell you otherwise, they know they won't get you back for sleep study every year and miss out on easy money.

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Just get couple of those :)

>>1034327
Its easy to calibrate flow if he wanted. Especially if is to be a constant pressure. You do know that it is easy to make tour own tester to measure the output.

You do understand what 20cm h20 is right?

>>1034340
OP came here asking a question that anyone remotely capable of safely building their own CPAP machine would have known the answer to. Do you honestly think OP is competent enough to trust his life to something which he calibrated himself with a home made calibration tool?

OP has probably never used a real CPAP before and so likely won't be able to tell whether his home made CPAP is functioning correctly with any degree of certainty.

With a piece of equipment like this even a 0.1% failure rate would be unacceptably dangerous.

Pretty sure sleep apnea can't kill you directly. When you stop breathing, you wake up. There are definitely other secondary implications of apnea, but unless someone is forcibly cutting off your air supply, you will wake up and start breathing again. Shit sleep is the most direct effect.

>>1034356
It is a very high risk factor for several heart diseases and stroke.

It's also not just 'snoring'

>>1034366
>very high risk factor for several heart diseases
For the fat ones, not everyone who suffers from sleep apnea is american size

>>1034366
My point kind of. OP made it sound like you die in sleep because of apnea. Not really the case. Definitely other implications.

>>1034356
It does give you brain damage.

>>1034389
But not in the sense that most people think, it is also reversible.
http://www.aasmnet.org/articles.aspx?id=4988

>>1034389
I thought that was the American public education system that did that.

>>1034041
just out of curiosity how do you know you need one of these? if it was a medical diagnosis then you most likely had a sleep study done... which if you didn't have insurance would have cost a couple hundred dollars.... and I don't see why you'd have bothered shelling out for the diagnosis if you couldnt afford the cpap if you needed it...

if you have insurance then unless it's poverty tier it should cover this, you need a perscription from your doctor for one...

if you just somehow got it in your head that you need one and didn't go to a doctor (or went to one that would tell you that you needed one without any real testing) then perhaps you should consider getting a second opinion...


fwiw I used to be fat as fuck and ended up on one of these.... was going through the process for weight loss surgery when they told me I needed to do a sleep study.. found out that I stop breathing something like once a minute and my blood oxygen level goes down to a lovely 73% .... which was why I was always fucking tired...

now, 2 years later post surgery I went from 430 lb's down to 260... and it STILL WASN"T AS BIG OF A CHANGE AS USING THE CPAP in terms of feeling like tired dogshit...

op don't try to diy this, you want the real deal which is expensive because it works... diy your talents towards something you can sell then use that money for your healthcare...
oh also get one of those large size command hooks and a rubber band... hook it on the wall above your head then rubber band the tubing to it and you won't feel it dragging across you all night when you turn over...

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>>1034041
Loose weight you fucking whale.

DISGUSTING MONSTER

>>1034356
It can kill directly if you are unable to wake up. For example, taking any form of medication or recreational drug that lowers your bodies ability to react. Alcohol, pain killers, etc.

Op, don't make one yourself. I'm the fatty guy who needs one and these are more complicated than just an air pump. You can buy a lot of the ancillary parts for cheap online but the pump needs a prescription in the usa (so anyone selling one to you without the script is selling shit or an fbi agent with to much time on his hands.)

>>1034511
I bought mine from 1800cpap and didnt need to give them anything, but it might be different for international sales.

>>1034497
You do know that over 25% of sleep apnea sufferers are actually well in the ideal BMI range.

>>1034534
>muh muh statistics

>75% are fat monsters who suffer from it

The 25 you talk about are within "normal" United States BMIs that have been adopted to deal with the fatter society.

>>1034539
>United States BMIs that have been adopted to deal with the fatter society.
really?

http://www.fundairing.com/#first-ever-micro-cpap

>>1034544
Oh look, shilling for an impossible kickstarter. This thread sure got indexed quick

>>1034544
that is just stupid, will not work

>>1034250
Won't work without pellet wood to make the frame.

>>1034041
just get a used one from a retirement home

>>1034041
Do yourself a favor and get one with an alarm for when the power goes out. Gl. My wife snores and uses one of the fuckers. Goddamn annoying. I'll drop 100 pounds or just fucking die rather than use 1

>>1034539
>The 25 you talk about are within "normal" United States BMIs that have been adopted to deal with the fatter society.
Fuck man, we have stupid people here in the US but it just seems europe is crawling with them. Or maybe its just one angry europoor on fucking overdrive shitposting all over the internet.

>>1034511
you can buy a regular old cpap without a prescription in the states, it's just fuckall expensive... your insurance covers a pretty big part...

>>1034356
it may not kill you in your sleep, but when you nod off while driving it can get pretty deadly...

>>1034244
actually some of the newer cpaps detect your breathing pattern and vary the pressure lower when your exhaling... which makes me wonder why BiPaP's are still fuckhuge...

>>1035484
... How about because the feature you describe is literally the only difference between a CPAP and a BiPAP?

Seriously, if it changes to a different pressure during exhalation it isn't a CPAP anymore.

>>1035484
Those advanced CPAPs you're talking about are just misnamed small BiPAPs.

What you're thinking of as a fuckhuge BiPAP is probably one of the hospital models which have to contain a large internal battery for patient transport (or in case of power failure) and can pump 80+ litres per minute when required.

The newer hospital models are a bit smaller with the newer battery tech, but they still weigh 5-8kg. There's no real motivation to make them smaller than that since you need carry an oxygen tank with it anyway and staff like having a decent sized display to view graphs of the patient's breathing pattern.

>>1034334
Before I got insurance I was desperate enough to try a DIY aquarium pump CPAP. I did not sleep my entire four years of high-school. I was passing out from exhaustion. They thought I was narcoleptic at one point because I'd just shut down and fall over mid-sentence.

I ended up finding a used one on eBay (before they shut all sales down...) for around $100.

Found the secret Dr. Menu thanks to some instructions posted online and played with the pressure until I found one that seemed to work. Used that sunnabitch for seven years before I could afford insurance and got my sleep study. Over 100 episodes an hour. With pressure, >1. (And it still cost me a $2,500 deductible. Thanks Obama.)

Fun fact: In Burgerland it's a felony to buy or sell a used CPAP, as it is controlled medical equipment and available by prescription only. Gotta keep those insurance companies paid, goy. JewSA! JewSA! JewSA!

>>1034493
>sleep study
>a couple hundred dollars.

AHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

... no.

>>1035542
>Being this mad about being this poor.
Go back to wherever you came from.

I sleep pretty bad. I snore like a motherfucker. So I most likely have this shit too.

Too bad I also roll around like 20 times a night, flipping blankets 180degrees. So I'd probably ruin the machine and strangle myself.

Surely there must be some fix, like deepthroating.

>>1035544
$200 deductible? Maybe. No way a sleep study can be done properly for $200.

It would cost more than $200 just for the room. Add to that all the monitoring equipment and the technicians to operate it, and it's costing the hospital ~$1000 just to conduct the sleep study, and that's before you pay a specialist $$$ to interpret the damn thing.

>>1035544
My in house sleep study was $250, no insurance because of deductible being $300. I paid $300 for the full in office sleep study to hit my deductible and get the extra benefit of being fitted and prescribed a pressure all in one go.

I miss the days of a $300 deductible. My deductible is $1500 now, thanks Obama!

on 3 occasions i've seen these units on sale at thrift stores, even bought one for $5, just to play with, not to use on myself. wouldnt wanna catch some old-person disease. apparently, to sterilize these units, they stick 'em in an airtight box and fill it with ozone.

>>1035556
We all know you do plenty of deepthroating already

>>1035542
>In Burgerland it's a felony to buy or sell a used CPAP,
How is secondwindcpap allowed to operate then?

>>1035556
I do the same and still havent rekt anything. Stretched the hose a little thats about it.

>>1035748
Just by an Auto machine and never bother about sleep study again.

>>1035542
>Fun fact: In Burgerland it's a felony to buy or sell a used CPAP, as it is controlled medical equipment and available by prescription only. Gotta keep those insurance companies paid, goy. JewSA! JewSA! JewSA!

wat? i bought one at goodwill to gut for parts

>>1036351
lies, goodwill doesn't take electronics

>>1036346
eh, I adjust it up if my wife complains of snoring through the mask. I've since adjusted it back to the prescribed number though since I lost 20lbs.
My weight loss leveled out after I stopped counting calories, will be starting the calorie counting back up to continue my weight loss after I get a few other ducks back in a row.