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Is any one else having problems with their oxygen supplier only allowing me 6ft of tubing from my concentrator
I have absolutely no idea why a company would do this. How do you move around your home? It is certainly further than 6 feet from my bed to my kitchen, or from my sitting room to my bathroom. Speak to your respiratory nurse, who will speak to the company on your behalf.
I am allowed circa 20 metres for my static unit and 3-4 metres with my portable unit. As toci says -speak to your nurse.
I have been given enough to go out into the garden and walk around. There seems to be 'miles' of it. Why would they limit you? I would phone up the breathing clinic and complain. Popplewell
Hi Marypink time to pick the phone up somethings wrong there,how on earth are you managing?Hopefully this will be addressed quickly .Goodluck just a little blip Im sure. 
Janexx
Like the others I find this quite incomprehensible! 6 feet wouldn't take you to the end of the bed. I don't know how long my tubing is but it takes me from the concentrator in the spare bedroom to anywhere downstairs and, like Popplewell, even out into the garden.
Who is your supplier? This is quite ridiculous. 1.8metres (about 6 feet) is the standard longer length tube supplied with cannulas. I have a few of these as spares as well as the 1.2metre lengths that I use on my portable. My supplier, Air Liquide, replaces as many as I want whenever they come to service my large concentrator.
Don’t let them get away with making you carry your cylinder around with you in order to get around the house. That is quite unacceptable. The point of putting you on home oxygen is for you to be able to do more at home. Definitely talk to your respiratory nurse, consultant or GP – or all 3!
Best of luck with this. Hope you get the extra tubing you need very quickly, Jan
Hi Marypink19, it may be worth you making contact with your oxygen supplier to discuss. I think there are circumstances where smaller length of tubing is left, but if you give them a call they can look into it and see if increasing the length of tubing would be a safe option for you. It's always worth asking.
dolby did that to me but the nurse rang and they came the next day with a tube long enough to go outside. Hope you get it sorted
och thats plain rediculous 6t tubing""" i am with b o c they gave me 15 metres ,[i could get more if i wanted, i asked if i could get one that reached "asdas" :)] ,, as some of the posts suggested above,, the main reason of the length of tubing is to give you relatively more room to move in your own house, i should contact them, or contact g,p or resp, nurse, i am quite sure they will send you longer tubing,, p,s keep the 6 ft one, for sitting in the house,,,,,,, and watch the longer one!! it tends to get caught on door handles or under doors, then it pulls on the nasel cannula, and the ears can become very sore, best of luck to you marypink,,,,i am quite sure this can be put right,, kindest regards ,, and wish you more freedom!!! jimmy
