Bludog,

I would think you could (or have someone else) build a box that could set over your machine.  Maybe built out of wood of some kind and lined with foam to baffle the noise.  Leave some holes in the back end for air intake and maybe leave the front end open for the hose and enough access for the controls on top..  Then place it below the level of the bed, but not on the floor with the back end facing away from the bed..

DW

Hi folks. Thanks for all the input - even from those who find it funny.  javascript:emoticon('') A few more details for you.
1. this is a new wife - I'd like to keep herjavascript:emoticon('')
2. Trying to avoid the separate room thing as we do like each other's company. But it may come to that.
3. The device is a Respironics Remstar Pro 2 with Cflex.
4. The mask is a ResMed Ultra Mirage full face series 1 that fits over nose and mouth. Tried a nasal mask that didn't work for me.
5. I do have the mask tight because I have a beard. The beard stays as there's too much scaring underneath from an accident when I was 14 so please don't suggest shaving. But perhaps it is whistling around the beard though my wife insists it's the machine and not the mask. Still I'll try loosening it.
6. She wore earplugs for a while but extended use gave her earaches. I've had that experience myself when I had a job requireing earplugs. Not pleasent.
7. I got a styrofoam ice chest today. Turned it upside down over the cpap and cut in the appropriate holes. (Upside down because the bottom is too small for the device. It tapers out to the top so is bigger there.) The cpap sits on a carpeted floor. If I cover the cooler with a towel I can't hear a thing from it. We'll see.
8. I will move all electronic gizmos from nearby.
9. As for making her tired before bed - the woman is insatiable.  javascript:emoticon('')
Don't give up - if you have anymore ideas please, PLEASE list them. thanks a bunch.[/i]

Did you check around to see if there are other electrical motors near your device’s new home?  You know that copper wire wrapping that you can sometimes see in an electric motor?  That’s what makes the magnetic field I was talking about.

If you live in the south your air conditioner (or heat pump) is often on an outside wall of your house.  Is yours?  Is your device near it?  Are their major power lines in your immediate area?

I could point you to a very boring website related to lessons In electric circuits and how the electrical waves are compared to music sounds and the relationship to high and low frequencies.  But not now.  That would be too much punishment.

Instead, try this experiment.  The typical approach to this problem would be the husband trying to prove the wife is imagining the sound and there is, in fact, no sound.  We want to do the opposite here.  We want to show her the high-pitched whine is there even if there is no CPAP!  She may be noticing a frequency she could previously hear and is assigning it to your CPAP.  Turn it off in the middle of the night and gently rouse her.  Ask her if the sound is bothering her now without telling her the machine Is off.

If I’m wrong no harm right?  If I’m right you’ll have to find the source of the sound and correct it.  Please have faith in me in that I am not sending you on a wild goose chase.  Who knows? I might be on to something.


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Bludog,

You have the same machine (and I believe the same mask) that I do.

I would strongly suggest that you do not put the machine directly on the floor (including carpeting) as that will put the air intake will be very close to the floor.....and will suck in "whatever"......even though there is a filter in the back.  I would suggest sitting it on SOMETHING (and fairly sturdy) to get it above floor level.

#9. ........Lucky Guy!!!

Let us know how the ice chest works.

DW

tbone wrote:

tbone wrote:

bludog wrote:

Okay so this isn't a marriage counseling forum but...perhaps someone has some experience. I'm a new cpap user and feel the jury is still out on its effectiveness. Still trying to find the right pressure setting but having trouble getting to sleep at all because my wife, who is a very light sleeper, hates the machine; a Remstar Pro2. She says there's a high-pitched whine like a dentist's drill that I can't hear. I put the device under the bed and she says the sound travels under the bed and echoes off the wall on her side. I do believe she's hearing something. Even she says the sound is not very loud but is enough to keep her awake. Tried wrapping the machine in a towel being careful not to block the air intake without success. Any advice from you cpap pros? thanks in advance.

I'm not familiar the the Remstar Pro2 is it a BiLevel Device, cause I know it can be noisy when it ramps up and down. Luckily, we have used a HEPA filter in our bedroom for years and it acts as a white noise to block the sound of the device out.

And good for you MAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMA, in that you are able to recognize that while you now sleep in different rooms, you not absolved from making the GOOD NOISE. Best of both worlds if you ask me!

WOW, I liked my answer to the point I quoted myself!!!!!

Forgive me folks, but I couldn't resist. ........  tbone, you're an ever lovin' nut, you know that???
And what gives with the sheep?   wink, wink

I thought that the idea about the cooler was interesting.  My DH HATES the noise that those things give off.  We can NEVER have one in the car.  Just the movement of the road and the squeaking from the lid sitting on it drive him up the wall.  The same if we both have styro cups and they are sitting in the cup holder next to each other and rub together.  I grab mine and hold, cause I know that sound drives him totally nuts.  He is a real gentle soul, but that noise is his pet peeve.

Anhelo Impedio wrote:

Did you check around to see if there are other electrical motors near your device’s new home?  You know that copper wire wrapping that you can sometimes see in an electric motor?  That’s what makes the magnetic field I was talking about.

If you live in the south your air conditioner (or heat pump) is often on an outside wall of your house.  Is yours?  Is your device near it?  Are their major power lines in your immediate area?

I could point you to a very boring website related to lessons In electric circuits and how the electrical waves are compared to music sounds and the relationship to high and low frequencies.  But not now.  That would be too much punishment.

Instead, try this experiment.  The typical approach to this problem would be the husband trying to prove the wife is imagining the sound and there is, in fact, no sound.  We want to do the opposite here.  We want to show her the high-pitched whine is there even if there is no CPAP!  She may be noticing a frequency she could previously hear and is assigning it to your CPAP.  Turn it off in the middle of the night and gently rouse her.  Ask her if the sound is bothering her now without telling her the machine Is off.

If I’m wrong no harm right?  If I’m right you’ll have to find the source of the sound and correct it.  Please have faith in me in that I am not sending you on a wild goose chase.  Who knows? I might be on to something.

I do have faith in what you're saying but I don't know what the items could be. No electric motors or power lines anywhere - except in the cpap. It has a fan so it must have at least one motor. That's why I removed the telephone and radio/alarm from near the cpap thinking that perhaps the cpap is generating a sound in one of those devices via a magnetic feild. Believe me I'm not blowing off your idea - I just twisted it a little.

Anyway - I tried the styrofoam box and moving electronics last night and she couldn't hear the whine   !!!! However, it has been intermittent so time will tell.

Good idea about the middle of the night test. If we get the noise back I'll try it. Also may bring back the telephone one night and the radio/alarm the next to see if the sound returns with either of those.

thanks for the help.

In the final analysis if the source of the noise is exclusively in the CPAP or one of its components and the sound is legitimate you have a defective unit.  Even if it’s not you should not have to put yourself and your wife through all of these scenarios chasing down the sound.  The Rube-Goldberg approach is not fair to you.

                                                        

Insist on a new unit for whatever reason.


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