maryhahnward
Distinguished member
- Joined
- Jun 17, 2009
- Messages
- 445
- Reason
- CALS
- Diagnosis
- 06/2010
- Country
- US
- State
- NC
- City
- Wilmington
We were at the ALS Clinic yesterday and the team suggested to my husband that he use the Trilogy 100 instead of the bi-pap he has been using for a little more than a year. They said that people with ALS tend to live longer with this kind of machine rather than the one he was using.
They also stated that he wouldn't need to have adjustments made to it because it is more efficient than what he has. Right now his setting is just a little too high and we would have to trek 3 hours up to the VA to get it adjusted or mail it in hoping the sim card doesn't get lost so he lives with it the way it is. The clinic staff said the Trilogy 100 would eliminate the need for these adjustments.
It is pretty expensive, $2500 a month, which they said Medicare would pay for and the VA will not.
Thoughts on one versus the other?
They also stated that he wouldn't need to have adjustments made to it because it is more efficient than what he has. Right now his setting is just a little too high and we would have to trek 3 hours up to the VA to get it adjusted or mail it in hoping the sim card doesn't get lost so he lives with it the way it is. The clinic staff said the Trilogy 100 would eliminate the need for these adjustments.
It is pretty expensive, $2500 a month, which they said Medicare would pay for and the VA will not.
Thoughts on one versus the other?