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by Mr Bill
Mon Apr 06, 2020 3:36 pm
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: Suggest best replacement ASV
Replies: 7
Views: 921

Re: Suggest best replacement ASV

It came with a manual in which it cautions the provider to not pass on to the patient. The machine was super easy to set up. I decided to try it on auto optimization and it worked right away. I have always put my mask on before starting my machine. I was surprised to find out it starts up when you t...
by Mr Bill
Fri Mar 27, 2020 3:01 pm
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: Suggest best replacement ASV
Replies: 7
Views: 921

Re: Suggest best replacement ASV

My new unit is ordered and should be on the way soon. :D This is good news since I think I have about 19,600 hours on my current unit and it feels rather anemic in its air delivery. I put it to my doctor that it hardly seemed that I would need an expensive sleep study since central sleep apnea proba...
by Mr Bill
Fri Feb 07, 2020 9:43 am
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: Suggest best replacement ASV
Replies: 7
Views: 921

Re: Suggest best replacement ASV

I talked to the technician when I was dropping off a family member for a sleep study. He said my mode was an absolute tank but would eventually stop. I put the process in motion. They say I have to do a complete new sleep study. That seems like a waste of time and more importantly money. But they wo...
by Mr Bill
Mon Dec 02, 2019 12:03 pm
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: Suggest best replacement ASV
Replies: 7
Views: 921

Suggest best replacement ASV

Hey All, I've had such a hard time getting the system to let me log on! I've wanted to check up on y'all and see how you were doing for quite a long time but the system kept kicking me out with invalid log in notifications. I have not forgotten how much y'all helped me in the early months of getting...
by Mr Bill
Tue Mar 06, 2018 1:46 pm
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: AirCurve ASV Auto/Aerophagia
Replies: 9
Views: 3590

Re: AirCurve ASV Auto/Aerophagia

My machine used to blast me pretty powerfully. But over time, it seems to have learned me because it hardly ever happens now. Come to think of it, I think we reduced the backup rate. My average is 18.2 BPM but we reduced the forced backup rate to 8 BPM. I had a new sleep study done in 2017 and it re...
by Mr Bill
Tue Mar 06, 2018 1:36 pm
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: Newbie would like to hear success stories, please.
Replies: 766
Views: 2118068

Re: Newbie would like to hear success stories, please.

I'm 61 years old and back in 2009 I started waking up knowing I was not breathing. I ended up with a Resmed BIPAP Auto ASV Advanced machine because I have complex (mostly central) sleep apnea. I had a rocky 4 months or so getting used to sleeping with a mask. But its routine now and I don't think I ...
by Mr Bill
Tue Nov 04, 2014 12:17 am
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: Seeking Advice - To Be Prescribed ASV
Replies: 10
Views: 2039

Re: Seeking Advice - To Be Prescribed ASV

. 1) I don't have a known issue causing CSA. Is it typically worth investigating the underlying cause? 2) Can the OSA component be a results of CSA and not necessarily a separate issue? I'm am only slightly overweight at 5'10 180lbs 3) How accurate are sleep studies? Could two different sleep studi...
by Mr Bill
Tue Nov 04, 2014 12:01 am
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: Sensation of hair caught in throat.
Replies: 7
Views: 1460

Re: Sensation of hair caught in throat.

Usually that is my clue that I am starting to get a cold. And if its too bad, I go sleep out on the couch where I can sleep sitting up either with or without the ASV depending on whether I can tolerate being masked up.
by Mr Bill
Mon Nov 03, 2014 11:59 pm
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: Seeking Advice - To Be Prescribed ASV
Replies: 10
Views: 2039

Re: Seeking Advice - To Be Prescribed ASV

That would be my nightmare to have surgery and have the post op people not realize what it really means to have central sleep apnea. Glad they woke you to remind you to breath.
by Mr Bill
Tue Oct 28, 2014 12:24 am
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: sleeping completely upright to prevent OSA?
Replies: 19
Views: 7226

Re: sleeping completely upright to prevent OSA?

I have to sleep on my back to avoid GERD or prop myself up pretty substantially. If I have a cold or my asthma is acting up, its very hard for me to get to sleep lying down and sitting up does seem to help. So, I often let myself doze off on the couch before I get up and hit the sack for "real" slee...
by Mr Bill
Tue Oct 28, 2014 12:07 am
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: Things non-apnea people say.
Replies: 58
Views: 6436

Re: Things non-apnea people say.

"Its Life Jim, but not as we know it."
by Mr Bill
Tue Apr 10, 2012 12:03 pm
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: How to keep me from ripping mask off?
Replies: 11
Views: 2496

Re: How to keep me from ripping mask off?

Just persist in putting it back on each time you wake up with it off. It takes a while for your sleeping mind to realize its a good thing. I slept with my pulse oximeter on for the first few months. I could see the oxygen desaturations every time I had my mask off. That convinced my conscious mind. ...
by Mr Bill
Tue Apr 10, 2012 11:36 am
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: Central apnea
Replies: 7
Views: 1954

Re: Central apnea

Best to make that a link, because I do very occasionally update the info as it becomes available.
by Mr Bill
Tue Apr 10, 2012 11:30 am
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: Central apnea
Replies: 7
Views: 1954

Re: Central apnea

Are you sleeping on your back? That's the way to help GERD in conjunction with elevating the head of your bed. Belly or side sleeping lets that stomach acid keep irritating the vagus nerve.
by Mr Bill
Tue Apr 10, 2012 11:24 am
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: Atrial fibrillation convinces after arguments fail...
Replies: 6
Views: 2007

Atrial fibrillation convinces after arguments fail...

My little brother just called from the hospital. They got him shocked back into sinus rhythm. He went to the hospital Sunday with Atrial Fibrillation, initial treatments and drugs failed, so he called me just as they were taking him in to shock his heart. I told him back at Xmas last year that he wa...