Your observations are right on... unfortunately. My main issue is usage / compliance... everything else is secondary. I did see someone else on here last night who had just started and was struggling... so hopefully we can, perversely, offer each other some moral support as we go through this. Since...

Thanks all... Obviously found the control panel so I added my machine info, etc... My study was the titration-type. ... which is how I ended up with the 14 / 9 pressures being specified. My machine is data capable (pretty high end machine from what I can tell) but the data is collected onto a pretty...

BTW- I think this is the diagnostic part ... if it is the titration it is pretty damn crappy work. You are the second person to mention titration study vs diagnostics (or something along that line). Although I thought I was fairly well read on this I am confused by the reference. These data are fro...

Ok.. maybe I was wrong... there are not stat freaks out there

OK Plowboy... you're my inspiration because you are a day ahead of me!! I try my new bi-pap tonight for first time... along with a newer mask. I have tried cpap before and failed miserably. But I am committed this time and I will post my success (hopefully) as I go along. I hope we can encourage eac...

First of all.... I am very pleased tonight. I went to the respritory (sp) therapist today and got a ResMed Auto 25 without having to fight. Although Auto, it is set "hard" at 14 inhale and 9 exhale. I feel that this machine is the right machine for me (largely due to the opinion and input of folks h...

Thanks for the education and the encouragement. I am very appreciative that so many of you took the time to write. Regarding my experience today... pretty interesting. My Dr wanted me to get a bi-level without any pushing on my part. He was well aware of the insurance issue and felt that it could be...

OK... Someone with half a brain would post this long before their appointment... but my appointment just got moved UP two weeks so I am caught by surprise. What I need to know is what I should do and ask my Dr regarding my treatment. By way of background... I have had sleep apnea for 20 years and ha...

Thanks for responding.... I think both of your answers together solved the mystery. Here is my take, pls let me know if I "got it" 1) IF Autos really worked, then my original theory would be correct and they would (theoretically at least) be more expensive. Howwever, there is much to be desired in t...

OK... I've read the "Our Wisdom" and viewed the videos and am beginning to understand (or remember) much of this. What I don't understand is the BiPap vs Auto issue. From what I have read and watched, it would seem to me that the auto adjusting where you get only the breadth you "need" would be far ...

Had to laugh.... Read the "Yellow bulb of wisdom above" twice before I realized there actually WAS a yellow bulb of wisdom. Thought that it was sort of a catch phrase or new age "think deeply" reference LOL thanks for the replies.... The irony, which I referenced obliquely, is that my last sleep stu...

OK... the long and short of it is that I am the poster child for sleep apnea... A little overweight, thick neck, snore like crazy (until palate surgery) etc... Oh yeah... and a heart attack at 48 yrs old. Other than that and being tired ALL the time life is great! So.... have tried and tried to get ...