Portable nebulizer suggestions

Thank you, Scoop. Your insight is much appreciated!

@scoop @sueinmn
I just know I'm going to get caught with a power outage if I don't get on it and order the EFlow/ERapid.
I keep putting off getting it..... $$$$. However both your posts are getting me there. Thanks.
Question: Does it have a rechargeable battery??? I just so dislike using items with batteries due to the environmental factors and possible repurchase costs.
Question: Sue, it appears the battery lasts a good few days with both of you using it?

I have noticed, with trying a new way to do my therapy session by using my KINTEGOOD Massage Hammer on my back, lung areas, percussion with my cupped hands on my front, lung areas, and doing my postural drainage ( I go back and forth each session with using the massage hammer and then the postural drainage a good few times each session) I get a good amount of mucus up without doing the saline the day I do this type of session. In doing the postural drainage I use the wedge pillow to allow me to have myself inverted due to the height of the wedge pillow at one end.
Therefore I am alternating how I do my therapy session every other day,
One day I do the above type of therapy session and the next day I am doing 1/2 a vile of 7% in the morning and the other half an hour before going to bed. I empty half of the vile and cover it until the evening session. I blow the tube line out each session. Again, I get a good amount of mucus out..it appears to be the same amount each day from what I observe in my clear solo cup.
So far it seems to be doing the trick due to my being able to stay asleep much longer in between the times I wake up to walk down the hall to the bathroom with my bladder talking to me.....and as well, I am spending less time clearing the night mucus before going back to sleep.

Any thoughts about all the above as far as concerns....????

Waiting on the results of my last sputum sample results from Tyler, it's going on seven weeks in lab. Hopefully the MAI is therefore still at a low load. Can't get rid of it on my own.....so far.... but trying! As long as I feel good, that is what is most important to me at this time.
Barbara

@blm1007blm1007 Yes the battery is rechargeable, I would estimate the life to be at least 1.5 to 2 hours of run time.

@sueinmn I use regular batteries. @sueinmn do you use rechargeable batteries? I wasn’t sure that was an option.

I have tried one off amazon but it only lasted about a week then stopped working so thats being sent back. I cant afford the fancy/pricy one so guess I'll keep trying the ones off amazon until I find one that will stay working. the medicare one - ill pass - just something mental with me about breathing into a machine that someone else has used - as you have to rent the ones thru medicare.

@rockinkranch Medicare will cover a brand new table top compressor nebulizer, not a used one. One of those covered as "durable medical equipment " is the Pari Vios, which is available at retail for $70 or less. I'm sure others can tell you which ones they got.

I like my Naweti. It was recommended to me when I visited Mayo.

@scoop @sueinmn I called Pari Monday and asked about the EFlow ERapid and the Pari Trek S Portable. I was told that yes the EFlow ERapid uses AA batteries. Is that what you use for your EFlow ERapid? If you do use AA batteries can you recharge the AA batteries?
I understand the Pari Trek S has the lithium ion battery that when it needs replacement it is around $140.00.
Barbara

@blm1007blm1007 Yes, but I do use rechargeable ones from our amply supply. They get charged on a separate charger we have owned for years. I carry regular AA's as a backup when we travel instead of carrying the (bulky) charger.
I don't have a PariTrek anymore, but used it for over 3 years on the original battery pack. I also had a DeVilbiss Traveler with a battery pack, and the little compressor wore out before the battery did. (My daughter and her family now have the replacement one.)

PS Nebulizers have been part of our lives for probably close to 40 years - I can't even remember how many we have owned. But we always have one of the "old standby" Pari Vios tabletop models in the closet as a backup. We call it the "Big Green Machine" as every version of it has been some shade of green.

@sueinmn Thanks for clarifying. I guess it is not possible to recharge the lithium batteries in the eflow itself? As for me I use the plug and carry regular batteries when traveling but I find they don't last too long.