I'm hoping someone has a brilliant idea to help me out.
I'm looking for a quieter compressor to use with my nebbed drugs at work. Right now I have the ProNeb Ultra, and I find myself not doing treatments that I should because I don't want to create the noise. Now, yes I do realize that it's not that loud. With my door closed, only the one office i share a wall with can really hear anything with a nebulous mechanical type sounds in the hall and in other offices around me. I know intellectually that a random mechanical rumble sound will probably not even be noticed by others, much less minded, but I mind.
As a result of my being uncomfortable with the noise, I only do nebbed meds at work if I'm there on the weekend or at night/early in the morning.
Hence my question: do you know of a compressor that operates more quietly than the Proneb Ultra? Since I'm not doing treatments at all right now, I'd definitely be willing to entertain one that takes longer or is perhaps slightly less effective based on the particle sizes it is able to create. Would still beat doing nothing!
At work, the main drugs I find myself wanting to neb that I currently don't are Albuterol and saline, so this hopefully makes finding a compressor that will get the job done easier. I on occasion do Tobi or Pulmozyme at work, but generally that's when i'm in the office outside of normal hours, so I can keep using the Proneb Ultra that I have at work.
Any other thoughts on ways to do the nebs at work that is more team friendly? I know I could get an inverter and do them in the car, but I'm hesitant to do that for several reasons. 1-It means I have to walk away from my work for a while (never fun). 2-It would mean I would have to sit in the car which isn't amazingly comfortable. 3-Many months out of the year it's really too hot to have to be sitting in the car. 4-It would necessitate my carrying the nebs through the whole building to sterilize them rather than within my office or just down to the break room of my firm as I do now.
To give context for those who might have advice: I work in a firm about about 50 people. We all have individual offices with walls and solid doors. I am in a hall that is the base of a long, skinny u. There is a file room on one of my walls, our hr woman on another wall, and halls on the other two walls.
I know I could do albuterol with a MDI, but I find that is much less effective in preventing spasms and useless coughs. So, if you have any knowledge about a quieter compressor, I would love to hear it. (Also, while I like my Pari LCs, I would definitely be willing to use a different nebulizer if I needed to in order to make the most of a different compressor.)
Finally, while I'm not excited about paying huge hunks of money and I'm guessing my insurance might be slow to pick up an expensive compressor (though they did pay 100% for the second proneb ultra), I think the health effects of having a compressor that I'm comfortable using during normal business hours are almost certainly substantial enough to justify whatever cost a compressor happens to be. I keep thinking that if I understood more about hte Eflow it might be an option, but I'm no where near understanding all of the cost, availability, special preparation of drugs, etc that are needed for it.
Help, Help help!!
I'm looking for a quieter compressor to use with my nebbed drugs at work. Right now I have the ProNeb Ultra, and I find myself not doing treatments that I should because I don't want to create the noise. Now, yes I do realize that it's not that loud. With my door closed, only the one office i share a wall with can really hear anything with a nebulous mechanical type sounds in the hall and in other offices around me. I know intellectually that a random mechanical rumble sound will probably not even be noticed by others, much less minded, but I mind.
As a result of my being uncomfortable with the noise, I only do nebbed meds at work if I'm there on the weekend or at night/early in the morning.
Hence my question: do you know of a compressor that operates more quietly than the Proneb Ultra? Since I'm not doing treatments at all right now, I'd definitely be willing to entertain one that takes longer or is perhaps slightly less effective based on the particle sizes it is able to create. Would still beat doing nothing!
At work, the main drugs I find myself wanting to neb that I currently don't are Albuterol and saline, so this hopefully makes finding a compressor that will get the job done easier. I on occasion do Tobi or Pulmozyme at work, but generally that's when i'm in the office outside of normal hours, so I can keep using the Proneb Ultra that I have at work.
Any other thoughts on ways to do the nebs at work that is more team friendly? I know I could get an inverter and do them in the car, but I'm hesitant to do that for several reasons. 1-It means I have to walk away from my work for a while (never fun). 2-It would mean I would have to sit in the car which isn't amazingly comfortable. 3-Many months out of the year it's really too hot to have to be sitting in the car. 4-It would necessitate my carrying the nebs through the whole building to sterilize them rather than within my office or just down to the break room of my firm as I do now.
To give context for those who might have advice: I work in a firm about about 50 people. We all have individual offices with walls and solid doors. I am in a hall that is the base of a long, skinny u. There is a file room on one of my walls, our hr woman on another wall, and halls on the other two walls.
I know I could do albuterol with a MDI, but I find that is much less effective in preventing spasms and useless coughs. So, if you have any knowledge about a quieter compressor, I would love to hear it. (Also, while I like my Pari LCs, I would definitely be willing to use a different nebulizer if I needed to in order to make the most of a different compressor.)
Finally, while I'm not excited about paying huge hunks of money and I'm guessing my insurance might be slow to pick up an expensive compressor (though they did pay 100% for the second proneb ultra), I think the health effects of having a compressor that I'm comfortable using during normal business hours are almost certainly substantial enough to justify whatever cost a compressor happens to be. I keep thinking that if I understood more about hte Eflow it might be an option, but I'm no where near understanding all of the cost, availability, special preparation of drugs, etc that are needed for it.
Help, Help help!!