Philips have announced that their Dreamstation CPAP machine has a fault where the foam sound baffler is disintegrating and there is a risk of inhaling carcinogenic material.
Prior to receiving a text from the hospital about this (without the mention of carcinogenic of course to stop panickers, I looked that up on google), I felt a small fragment of something coming down the breathing tube and entering my windpipe making me cough. Since then I’ve not used the equipment.
I’m still having problems breathing and want the hospital to issue me with an alternative machine, but I expect there’s hundreds of us wanting the same thing so when I ring I get apologies for not getting back to me earlier.
So now I run the risk of a stroke or heart attack as I stop breathing at night without the equipment. What would you Gransnetters do under circumstances, carry on using the equipment regardless or hold out for a solution from the hospital?
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