Thank you Snoredog for the great explanation. You have enlightned me on what was a mystery to me. The illustration made it seem simple.

This board is great.

I note some have mentioned "low ferritin" levels associated with RLS or PLMD. I just had my physical and all my blood counts were great, however my Ferratin level was very low normal at 26(normal for me would be 22-322). Anyone have any experience with this type situation? My MD said not to worry ab...

Stepanie----How exactly do you use the mixture?? And how often?

Slinky, Snoredog and Sleepyred I really appreciate the feedback and suggestions. I intend to give them all a test run. Does anyone think the RF (in office) surgery will help? It supposedly will shrink the membranes and open the airway. I will institute the suggestions offered here and see what happe...

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I've been on APAP for nearly 3 months now and have gotten invaluable info from reading posts daily here on this forum. Over the 3 months I have narrowed my mask down to the Activa along with a strong velcro chin strap. Over the last 3 weeks my AHI has averaged 0.6 which I understand is excellent. Th...

How appropriate this topic came up. I had been noticing water on my stand and the floor. On closer examination over the weekend I looked in the humidifier chamber and found standing water there. And it was leaking out through the humidifier. After these posts I looked up the tank number and it was "...

I have some Encore data that I would like to share and get some feedback on. My only problem is that I do not know how to share the info on this forum. I registered with 4 shared but have not been able to figure out how to share the file. Can anyone give me some assistance? I can't get the file onto...

I am relatively new to forum and would like to submit some encore pro data for discussion. I cannot find info on how to upload data. Could someone please assist me as to the way to get the data to this forum? Thanks!!

I do believe in some cases that general anxiety is a causal factor in apnea. I know when I am anxious my AHI numbers are worse. My Doc(GP) thinks this way also and is thinking of prescribing some anti-anxiety medicine.

What experience have others had in this regard?

Thanks for the reply, I taped last night but it came loose. I woke in middle of night with mouth leak.I do wash up every night , but I don't know what tape works best. Any thoughts on tape?

What would be an acceptable leak rate?

Encoe Pro data shows Avg mask leak of 70.0, Avg 90% of 39.o and avg leak of 35, I woke up during the night mouth breating, AHI was 2,o or better but I feel like crap. HELP!!!

My settings came from cpap.com with a low of 4 and a high of 20. My 90% numbers for the last 3 nights were 5, 5 and 6.. I'm thinking of trying 6 on the low pressure as a starting point.. Not sure yet what to do on the higher number.

Using the software reports, would it be advisable to set the lower pressure of my Auto Cpap to cover 90% of the events? The reports always show the 90% in shaded gray. It would seem a pressure of 6 would cover 90% for me.

I updated my profile to show software. My only choice on the menu was 1.6 but I actually have 1.8.

Will start with 6 and see what happens.