I find taping with masking tape works if I’m clean shaven, but a little bit of stubble and it’s game over. Can’t even imagine a full beard. Is there another option or better adhesive tape? It seems that the mouth drool and jaw opening and closing gets it open, and then if the outer seal isn’t perfec...

I posed a similar question a couple months ago. Generally I think you'll find that most people prefer the ResMed. I'd been on a Respironics System One ASV and wanted to try the ResMed to see if it improved my sleep. The numbers were better, but subjectively, I felt much worse, so I swapped it out fo...

Downloaded and successfully imported my old SH profiles. Thank you, and please keep up the great work!

before you can move forward, you have to fix the leaks. If the odd night you mention with resmed is saying no leaks, 0.0 and you feel worse. I think your sleep issues may be elsewhere. The resmed doesn't tag CA, all UA are obstructive. It does take a lot longer to get use to ASV than cpap and they ...

The machine isn't set up properly and you have leaks. Generally the resmed is prefered. I'd also post on apneaboard. You need to sort the leaks out. Do you have a FFM for now? I think that will help a lot. ASV need a decent seal and no mouth leaks try Min epap 5 min PS4 after the leaks are fixed. a...

Go back to Respironics now. I can't think of a tweak that will make the ResMed behave like the Respironics and you shouldn't have to since you did quite well with the Respironics. Some people simply just do better with the way one brand does things especially when they have used that brand for year...

I’m 8 days in, and this AirCurve is killing me. I feel like I’m in a constant sleep-wake cycle the last few hours of the night, which is when I usually get my restorative sleep. Since I generally feel worse at higher pressures, I’ve tried lowering max PS, and that’s helped a little — but only a litt...

The Resmed ASV is an active machine and its pressure delivery is different to the Philips which you have been using for a long time, any change will feel strange to start with, give it a few nights and you will settle down Thanks. I hope so. Last night was even worse than the night before. I felt l...

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The leaks are not huge until just before you actually get up, I would raise the minimum Epap to 6 rather than 4 but other than that looks a reasonable night.

Yes, it does looks that way. But I feel like I didn't sleep at all, versus how I felt on the PRS1 ASV, which was generally acceptable.

Not all leaks are mouth breathing leaks. Remember there are also mask movement leaks as well. Unless your tape came loose.... Good point. However, I generally haven't had much leaking when my mouth stays shut on the PRS1. Here's a good PRS1 night versus last night on the ResMed. As you can see it's...

Finally got the new ASV — after initially being given a VAuto last week and not realizing it until, of course, Saturday morning when there wasn't anything that could be done. Ugh. Last night was rough and I feel pretty cruddy today, although the AHI value of 1.04 would make the doctors happy. The Ai...

This is great. I'm grateful for all the input and information. Thank you all!

Thanks all for the comments so far! It sounds like all votes are for the AirCurve. Let me ask one follow up here. The faster breath-by-breath responsiveness in the AirCurve’s algorithms — is that usually a good thing, or can it be disruptive? As I mentioned in my first post, I seem to be an extremel...

Hi friends! I'm about to get a new ASV and am trying to decide between the Respironics Dreamstation BiPAP autoSV and the Resmed Aircurve 10 ASV. I know lots of people have asked this question, and I've read many of the threads on it. While the answer has generally been, "It comes down to personal pr...

No mode or setting changes to the machine settings I'm aware of... and if there had been it would only have been minor adjustment of the pressure support. Is there any difference between earlier .001 file sizes and the newest ones?? In my case, not really. Comparing the newest to the oldest: MAC:p4...