I try to work them out but they just twist right up again. It is amazing oxygen can make it through them. I recently starting using my concentrator more (I had used my liquid portable before then even in the house) and find the 50 foot hose gets these kinks in it. Is my "new normal" being housebound until a lung comes my way for a transplant or.? I am at 5-6 lpm resting (working at my computer and small trips around the house like to the bathroom, the kitchen, and so on) and up to 7-8 lpm walking and climbing my stairs, so my portable (Inogen 3) doesn't work any more. And how do you go anywhere with the tanks? I wanted to go to my daughter's the other day but figured I would need about 4 tanks for just a couple of hours, since the tanks at 5 lpm only last about an hour, and then, what do you do with the extra tanks, leave them in the car? What if it's hot out? Do you bring them all inside? Going out to dinner with friends would entail even more tanks. And how do you cope with the cold oxygen going in your noses? I get these "nose freezes" that I relate to brain freezes when eating ice cream too fast and they brief but painful. How in the world do you keep the kinks out of the hoses mine get so kinked up, they block the oxygen. I feel like a crybaby about this oxygen, but I am having an awful time with it.
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