Thank you for the helpful responses.....for some reason I thought a prescription was needed for the pillows. The price on cpap.com is reasonable considering they last quite a while

johnthomasmacdonald wrote:Sounds much too dangerous to let someone get a nasal pillow without a prescription - what would happen if kids got their hands on them?

Good thing that is not an issue...no children in the home

Hello all, I have not logged into this site for a long time, mainly because I have been working full time and going to school full time for the last (nearly) 3 years. Oddly enough, that is when I got my official diagnosis of moderate OSA(although it sure felt like severe OSA to me.) In June, I lost ...

Purple, I will definitely do that to see where I am at, thanks for the suggestion! And Jamiswolf, That is another step in the process. I may have another sleep study....but will have to see how my new insurance plan handles that first, but I do want to be cautious of this no cpap idea as well. Thanks!

Hello, Its been a long time since I was on this website....working full time and attending college full time. I have lost a little over 30 lbs since the beginning of the year and for most of the summer I stopped using my cpap mask with very few mornings where I felt like I did not sleep well. My oth...

Congrats on the weight loss! When I first started CPAP I thought I would lose some weight,but it remained the same...that is good considering I had been slowly gaining weight and having less and less energy from not resting at night. Once I was on CPAP a little over a year and had the energy to exer...

I switched from the swift LT to the FX....like the LT, but the FX is a better fit for me. Its very quiet except when I turn on my side sometimes and have an air leak...then I am told by my other half that its Darth Vaderish....LOL. Sometimes its just making sure you have the right pillows. I think t...

Dear cyklopps I understand your being skeptical about whether something is medically necessary. Given the fact that medicine in this country is way too money driven, I'm convinced that more harm than good comes from that. I also would ask that you just do as much research as possible on the effects ...

I also wake up quite a bit some nights for no obvious reason. In the beginning of my CPAP therapy, I slept like a baby with no wake ups...I think mainly because I was soooo exhausted and needed had a lot of sleep debt. But once I was past all that and felt my normal energy and sleep patterns come ba...

You are definitely not alone and it does get better (assuming you have a mask that is comfortable and is the right fit). Once in a great while I still do it too...but very rarely. When it was more often, I could have set the alarm, but I did not want to disturb my other half with that. Turns out, I ...

Cardiosom is my DME and they will mail my supplies too. However, I just live a few blocks away from the place so I typically just stop by and get them. I only deal with them every three months so its usually a visit so they can read the card in my machine too. After reading some of the other posts a...

I have had allergy issues off and on for a while now and I am wondering if it has something to do with my mask or rather the kind of material it is made of. It may not be a cause, but I wonder if it is aggrevating the issue. Does anyone else have this problem or have some ideas? My numbers have been...

It sounds like I am less prepared than most, but I kinda have a "cross that bridge when I get there" way of thinking. I have extra hoses, masks, etc., mainly because I get them every 3 months because my insurance will pay for them and at any time I could be without insurance. So, whether I need them...

Thank God someone intervened with this woman's care. There are many issues here, but the most glaring to me is the fact that there is not enough awareness of the dangers of OSA and the risks of lack of treatment of it. This is a great opening to find a way to get the awareness level where it should ...

I can also say I have had a good and bad experience. The first DME representative I dealt with was very unreachable, disoraganized and did not seem as though she knew the product. I had already been educating myself with this site before that visit so I had an idea of what I needed to accomplish. Sh...