Anniedeb

OK.....I'm not even going to wear my tonight!! Too late to clean it.....know what I'll be doing tomorrow!!

Jan in VA

I'm SO surprised you were told NOT to wash your hose...there are even special l-o-n-g brushes sold to do just this! My heavens, I clean mine with a brush every 2-3 days and can definitely tell the difference with the smell -- less 'moldy'/musty -- when it's been cleaned.

For the longest time I didn't realize I could remove the lid of the water chamber (it's really hard to do) to clean it and was just filling it with hot soapy water and rinsing.....until the night I couldn't stand not "really cleaning" it even one more night. I got that lid off and felt the inside of the chamber and realized it was SLIMY from not being properly cleaned, I nearly died of being grossed out!!! Now that thing gets properly scrubbed at least once a week as well. No matter how often these things are replaced!

I'd rather sleep without my CPAP (which could literally kill me - and nearly did in the hospital when they failed to apply it in recovery following hip replacement surgery in 2011 - because I have severe OSA) rather than risk the mold factor going up my nose and into my lungs ever again!!! I am obsessive about it now.

Jan in VA