FWIW- I mainly use the ComfortGel (I use a Swift II maybe 2 days a week). I have a medium. The gel cushion is much more comfortable than the cushion on the F&P 407 that I tried during my sleep study (but it was a small and I was unacquainted with the tricks involved in getting optimal mask fit, so t...

I think that it would be a good idea to review your complete study report for more information about the results. I would want to make sure that you were not having hypopneas or airflow restrictions while on your side and to make sure that your study showed REM while on your side. I have known some ...

Thank you all for your input and special thanks to RG for those links (especially the sleepsyllabus!) (but do note that the sleepdoctor link does not work). I appreciate all your input and it does add a few new wrinkles to my understanding. I would appreciate activensleepy's doctor's opinion. I am r...

We have had 2 people post recently that their sleep doctors told them that slow wave sleep (aka delta sleep, stage III/IV sleep and sometimes as deep sleep) is not important except for children and teens. Is anyone here acquainted with studies, articles, books that support this contention? Could you...

Here's hoping that your testing comes up with some useful findings. One would hope that the fact that your therapy has not had the effects that had been hoped would allow you to suggest (as you doubtless have) that having data that would help demonstrate whether your therapy is being compromised by ...

Dreaming is hard to measure at home. According to most of what I hav read, dreaming is usually associated with REM sleep although there are some types of dreaming that occur during stage I or stage II sleep. It is possible to have lots of dream activity but to not remember it. It is theorized by som...

Stage III/IV sleep is also referred to as delta sleep, delta wave sleep, or slow wave sleep. It is sometimes referred to as deep sleep but this is a term that often occurs in other contexts ("...and Snow White fell into a deep sleep."), so I would not bother to Google it. You should find some good i...

I have found the ComfortGel to be my favorite mask so far (I had the f&P 407 for my titration, started with the Swift I and then the Swift II, tried tha F&P 431 full face mask, the ComfortSelect and the ComfortGel). Based on my experience I would expect you to find the ComfortGel to be much more com...

I'm no real expert either. I would offer the following: First, each of these are summaries. They are informative but they do leave some data out. The data from your first sleep study seem to suggest mild sleep apnea which becomes moderate during REM sleep and which is worse on your back than on your...

While I am by no means the expert that your sleep doctor is, it is my understanding through reading materials and posts on this board and others is that both Stage III/IV sleep and REM sleep are important to your physical well-being. I have read that REM sleep declines with age and perhaps stage III...

This is just a guess but I believe they may be talking about "Symptomatic" sleep apnea (apnea that is accompanied by clear cut symptoms that either are directly linked to sleep apnea (such as excessive daytime sleepiness) or physical symptoms (such as high blood pressure) that could worsen if apnea ...

(Just an update for the truly curious) After 2 weeks on the ComfortGel, logging a minimum of 7.5 hours a night, leakage presumably down (far less water loss from the humidifier tank in the am compared to the full face mask), the average hours per night STILL at exactly 6.8 hours. Unit is getting sen...

Allison- I am not particularly expert on this but your results overall suggest mild obstructive sleep apnea (based on your Apnea-Hypopnea Index-or AHI- being over 5 but less than 15). Apneas are periods of 10 seconds or longer where there is no intake of air into your lungs, Hypopneas are periods of...

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Well I can understand how you feel. It is unfortunate that many sleep doctors prefer to start a patient on CPAP and only review the test results after a month or so of CPAP treatment. There may be a few reasons for this and some of them may be half-way good. But even though your experience may be "n...