I hope this works out for you, in particular adding use of the Flonase. I am not a medical professional either, but my experience is the allergic type symptoms occurs after 2+ nights of continuous use. I "diagnosis' adverse reactions are caused by lack of sufficient humidification. As my home use utilizing distill water with no adverse effects, I purchased a Transcend unit for travel that also uses distill water. It works as well as my home unit, except when I notice that it is not consuming the water. That is, not producing the humidification and the symptoms start up. The HumidX cartridge simply does not result in sufficient humidification for evidently a lot of us. I think the problem with the Transcend unit is failure with the heater cartridge wick as it draws up the water. I have purchased replacements but have not had a chance to check/prove the solution.
I use the Resmed AirSense 10 with no problems whatsoever, at home or on the road. I bought the AirMini for travel as a more convenient option to replicate the performance I got from the Resmed home unit. I had no problems if I used it for only a night or two. I started noticing sever problems with I used it consecutively for more than two nights. I tried everything working with Resmed to see if I could identify and correct the problems I was experiencing. Nothing helped. My supplier ended up buying the AirMini back from me, but at a depreciated value. I was grateful for something. For replacement I purchased a Transcend 365 travel CPAP mainly because it uses distill water as the home unit does. I had suspected that the problems arose from a lack of humidification over extended periods. It worked great replicating my home unit performance. That is until it did not. I noticed that it was not consuming much if any distilled water. When that happened I got sick, miserably sick. Rounds of back and forth with Transcend resulting in them sending a replacement unit. So far, so good. The short is that the issue I think that is effecting us is a lack of humidification. For people like us that are experiencing these terrible effects, the HumidX HME type exchangers do not provide for sufficient humidification. Machines utilizing distilled water do as long as they are working properly. Resmed and other manufacturers that market travel machines with HME humidification systems should first be warning consumers that the travel units may not be a match for certain people and should be working to produce products that do serve those of us that evidently need the higher levels of humidification.
Wish I did. Having an external humidifier add problems of getting injected to hose, control and reliability. No problem whatsoever with the ResMed home unit. Travel units using water tend to try to minimize water use so to minimize volume of water to carry with you. If they would just assemble the smaller travel unit with the same reliability the home unit has, I think problem would be solved. If you find that option, please let me know. Next spring, planning 30 day extended vacation. I will have no choice but to bring my home unit.
Sorry to hear you are having problems similar to me. The problem is definitely lack of humidification. I returned my AirMini for a partial credit and purchased a Transcend 365 mainly because it uses water for humidification. That seem to solve the problem. Then on trip I had the same problem. I noticed that it was not consuming much water; consequently, I was not getting adequate humidification. I sent it to the factory under warranty. They said the heater element failed. Got it back, tested it at home for 5 nights - seemed problem solved. Just got back from another trip. Worked fine for 7 nights, then next night it did not consume much water and I got the runny eyes, dripping nose symptoms. I have sent it back to factory and am waiting for their response. Need a reliable humidification system.
Thanks for the response. Somewhat gratifying to hear someone with similar experiences. Resmed kept telling me there were not aware of such issues. I believe it has to do with the cartridge. I have no issues with my home water machine. I’ve solved the problem selling the mini back to the provider. I have purchased a Transend travel machine that uses water- no problems. Thank
I have since gotten rid of the ResMed AirMini and replaced it with Transcend 365. It uses distilled water like my home unit and I have not experienced any problems. That being the case, the HME has be the issue as it was the only difference and problem among now three machines.
I too am having allergic type reactions (teary puffy eyes and watery nasal drip) with AirMini after I use it for more than two consecutive nights. My supplier and Resmed say they have never had this problem occur before. I don't believe them as you have had similar problems. As best I can tell, it is related to HumidX HME cartridge. I have no such problems with my Resmed home unit using distilled water. I have paid to have the CPAP machine replaced, used cleaned tubes, new nasal pad, new HumidX and replaced the air intake filter. Still having the same problem beginning on the third night of consecutive use. Any solutions found other than quit using the product?
