I had the problem several times on no sinus medication at all….until the reaction hit of course….
I don’t think it makes a difference….there is something in the machine or the filters that triggers this awful reaction….again, I get nowhere with ResMed or my personal Apnea supplier on this….it just reinforces how difficult it is for consumers to establish that a product is faulty. I am still totally enraged that I wasted so much money on this product.
I am grateful to those of you who have experimented. I’m too afraid of getting sick again to even try. It does look, however, as if the filters aren’t the main problem. I’m going to risk derision and disinterest and contact both my provider and ResMed again……SO frustrated…..leaving in a few weeks on vacation and this expensive “thing” will be left behind again in the drawer!
There is a problem with the machine itself if numerous users experience the same symptoms whenever they use it but no symptoms using the regular ResMed machine. $1000 is a lot of money to waste on a flawed product that not only doesn’t function properly but, worse, ruins vacations and makes people sick.
I certainly will and have been thinking about this myself. Their product does harm! It took me six days to get over feeling awful from using this expensive machine which I don’t dare use again.
I called ResMed and basically got the runaround about how I should be checked for allergies…just ridiculous…allergies to what? No help at all and I’m really annoyed because I do travel a lot and getting the damned distilled water is nearly impossible many times. That’s why I invested so much in the Mini and bought a supply of the Humidex filters. Everyone who has this problem should complain to them. It has been five days now and I’m much better but still not feeling great and taking medication for the symptoms.
OMG! So I’m not insane after all! Came home on the train last night from trip out of town and was surprised they didn’t throw me off for endangering other passengers….sneezing constantly, tears running down my face, blowing my nose every two minutes. What a disgrace that I have lost over $1000 on this piece of garbage, plus the carry case, plus a supply of filters. There should be some kind of restitution for selling this product. It will be days before my system settles down.
