Hi I've used mine for ~8 years. Before CPAP I'd need to take an afternoon nap at work, and on the commute home... no more I'm wide awake. I once parked my car in front of light post at McDonald's for a short commute nap. About every 10 minutes I'd wake at the wheel with a light post in front of me, ...

...... Just curious.. could you not get data from a pulse oximeter with recording? My understanding is the rel problem is low blood O2 levels. Sure you'd have to buy the O2 meter, but they are a lot less than a CPAP machine no. low o2 levels is only a part of the problem that sleep apnea causes, an...

OkyDoky

A public thanks for your help

--G

I did not use mine when I first got it.

My trick was to get the software that registered the night's sleep. For a few weeks I could not wait to get the report.. and to get the report I needed to wear the mask

Might work for you

Now it's old hat

...... This is why data is so important to treatment. Without the data from MY machine, we would not have known that her pressure setting was not providing enough therapy. ... Just curious.. could you not get data from a pulse oximeter with recording? My understanding is the rel problem is low bloo...

I've used my Respironics resmed series M since 2008

Back when this forum sponsor used to sell used units, I picked up 4 total (after getting frustrated with DME) . Two work fine, one smells of smoke, and the other is intermitant. Of the two that work fine, one is for home, the other for travel

Thanks for the response

But.. i can't seem to find a place to downlord or buy Encore basic.

can someone point me in the right direction?

I use an older machine, M Series Bipap Auto with a smart card Way back when I started using a bipap, I had a smart card reader, and some software that could crack the data on the card an produce reports on a windows machine ( probably XP) . After a while, I just used the cpap, and stopped reading th...

Sorry to those I may have offended by minimizing the disease

Of course the response to treatment is different in different cases.

...Still, OSA is a serious, chronic condition that typically deteriorates (without treatment). And for many of us---particularly those who were largely asymptomatic---the OSA diagnosis is our first real encounter with our own mortality. I don't mean to minimize the potential difficulties with Apnea...

Here is another post that describes loosing weight to ameliorate sleep apnea http://archinte.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/abstract/169/17/1619 "Conclusions Physicians and their patients can expect that weight loss will result in significant and clinically relevant improvements in OSA among obese patient...

Here is one guy who "cured' it http://www.mendosa.com/blog/?tag=sleep-apnea "You can conquer sleep apnea. I know you can because I conquered a most severe form of it. And I’ve now even given away both of my continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) machines, which is the standard treatment for over...

Vader wrote:For me:
Most importantly, Keeping in touch with God, daily.

Me too, but I lost his cell number, could you post it again?

borgready wrote:....But I can't get to that REM restorative sleep cycle using the Bipap machine. ...

Can you tell me how you know this?

FWIIW, I use a bipap and just started using a zeo to monitor my sleep. According to the zeo I'm getting rem sleep

FWIIW

I found a page on the zeo site that describes how it works

http://blog.myzeo.com/5-steps-to-phasing-sleep/