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EasyPulse 5 + 6 oxygen regulator.

Posted by heffy82 @heffy82, Jan 1 1:03pm

Curious to know if anyone else is using the Precision Medical EasyPulse 5 + 6 oxygen regulator.

I have been using it for over 5 years now and love it. Depending on how my lungs are doing I can make a E-tank last more than 2 days around the house, at night I use an oxygen concentrator set at 2 lpm.

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roberthoneywell | @roberthoneywell | Jan 16 11:02am
In reply to @heffy82 "When I went on oxygen over 5 years ago my insurance gave me a huge 10-liter..." + (show)
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When I went on oxygen over 5 years ago my insurance gave me a huge 10-liter oxygen concentrator and a few E-tanks. I didn’t want to use the E-tanks, so I bought an Inogen G5 and the Inogen Home concentrator.

After a year I started to look at the E-tanks, and I bought the Easy Pulse 5+6 regulator for them.

So, the way I use my supplemental Oxygen is probably different that most people.

I use the Inogen Home concentrator at night and after I shower, I switch over to using E-tanks around the house. I have 20 E-tanks and those easily last all month; I never have used all 20.

When I leave the house to go out to eat, doctor office, or church, etc., I use the Inogen G5. I have 3 extended batteries for it, but most of the time I would only bring 1 extra battery with me.

You are right Medicare won’t give you both a portable POC and oxygen tanks. So, I spent money out of pocket and bought some of my own equipment and I’m very glad I did.

I have learned a lot of little tricks to make living on oxygen a lot easier for me. I’m always thinking of ways to help myself out. I have no complaints about anything.

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@heffy82 Thanks. I guess I'm not new to this, a few years in, but I went for those years mostly on tanks, which I was pretty comfortable with. I was frustrated by the short time it took to run them dry, so I got into the POC, thinking it would be more effective. Now that I have had it a while (A Devilbiss Drive +) I find it less effective than a tank and would like to do both. I think the tank is much better for exercise and working around the house and I use a backpack which seems less clumsy than the POC, plus I'm not dragging a bunch of charging cords all over the place. So your post was timely for me. And in all this I wonder whether my provider makes more on the tanks or on the POC. You'd think the POC coz tanks have to be delivered every week.

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