U-huh.

Pharmwoman, Having a low Osat of 88% can be very significant, depending on how the test was done. The testing lab where I have had 3 done now, will not allow a person's Osat to drop below 88% before they intervene and administer a BiPAP.CPAP and/or Oxygen. My OSat was 88% when they came in and put O...

Sorry. I didn't know where to post this.

I just received a message from this list that was nothing but SPAM written over and over. I just thought the owners should know about it

- JB

Hi, Lab Tech! What a wonderful place for you to ask questions! You have already taken the first MAJOR step toward improving the experience for your patients. If you will search on my name or on sleep study updates or the most reecent CO2 Monitor report, you will see some of the problems I have had w...

Love your replies!!! Thanks! I spoke with Dr. Franco yesterday on the phone and here is what she said.... Hi everyone. I spoke with the pulmonologist yesterday about the test and learned a few surprising things. (I will be seeing her in about 3 weeks for a thorough review of the sleep study. This w...

Hi Severeena! I've had this problem at times too, especially when I get up during the night for something like taking Rx, etc. When I go back to bed it feels like the machine is not delivering enough air.... it isn't! My machine adapts itself to my breathing patterns. When I am in deep sleep my bret...

CPAP = Constant Positive Airway Pressure

BiPAP = Bi-Level Positive Airway Pressure (2 levels: 1 for inhaling and one for exhaling)

Auto-PAP = Automatic Positive Airway Pressure (Levels change according to your needs, within the parameters you set)

As many of you know, Milwaukee's Froedtert Memorial Lutheran Hospital has a new CO2 monitor installed in their sleep lab (YAY!) Unfortunately, it is being handled by the same incompetents who do all the rest of their sleep studies (BOO) Here is my take on the test last night..... Well, guess I sort ...

Whoa Nellie!!!

My post was intended as a Kudo to my DME ... not as a beginning of DME flames or a diatribe on vacations (I get none, BTW). I only mentioned it as an irony of life that something always seems to go wrong when the one person who can fix it is not available
- JB

Thank you for all your prayers and good wishes! I made it through the surgery with flying colors and spent four weeks in a rehab center, resting! (taking three long naps every day AND sleeping through the night!) And huge thanks to Gail - the gal who told you what was happening. She not only joined ...

I'll add my $.02-worth here That tech is sadly replicated far too often in the sleep centers across the country: ignorant, uncaring and heedless of the purpose of the study to begin with. As has already been said, the masks should be fairly lose at first. During the night as the seal warms up, the l...

Hi everyone! I am finally back home again after surgery and four weeks in the rehab center. It seems that the hospital Respiratory staff still have a few things to learn about CPAP usage. I had to use their own equipment (hospital policy) which, by the way, was pretty good! Respironics BiPAP S/T Ins...

I was just about to post the same thing.

Please do NOT sleep with the hose - even that short one that comes with the mask - attached if there is no machine pushing air through it. You will end up rebreathing CO2.

Have you been waking up with headaches? It's from the CO2.

- JB

To help get yourself acclimated to having the mask on your face, try wearing it for naps. You want to get to the point where your body and your psyche equate it with REST. Good luck with it. Like RG said, wearing something over our faces is not natural. In fact we naturally wake up if something touc...

WOW!!!

Great information there, Ozij!!!

Thanks!!! (As my "Favorites" links under BiPAPs begin to take over my comp!!!)
- JB