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by Todzo
Thu Nov 06, 2014 6:21 pm
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: Can ASV cause fatigue? Need BiPAP instead?
Replies: 52
Views: 7575

Re: Can ASV cause fatigue? Need BiPAP instead?

Interesting stuff, Todzo, I am responding because I want to read those links in depth at a later time. I have really ratty breathing at night. Actually, I did a little experiment yesterday and turned the pressures on my machine all the way down and breathed through it while awake and watching TV fo...
by Todzo
Thu Nov 06, 2014 10:44 am
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: Can ASV cause fatigue? Need BiPAP instead?
Replies: 52
Views: 7575

Re: Can ASV cause fatigue? Need BiPAP instead?

A recent study comparing ASV with CPAP for the treatment of CompSAS demonstrated that ASV yields better carbon dioxide maintenance but does not reduce arousals, reduce daytime sleepiness, or improve quality of life better that CPAP[1]. So while the better carbon dioxide maintenance may help preserve...
by Todzo
Wed Oct 08, 2014 8:41 pm
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: My sleep problems were caused by bacteria.
Replies: 27
Views: 8342

Re: My sleep problems were caused by bacteria.

Well perhaps in addition to attacking cranial nerve #7 attacks are made to parts of the chemoreflex systems. Fractured sleep from the resulting apneas would also cycle the stress hormones such that the related sugar release circuits also cycle resulting in insulin resistance and diabetes. I have see...
by Todzo
Wed Oct 08, 2014 6:56 pm
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: My sleep problems were caused by bacteria.
Replies: 27
Views: 8342

Re: My sleep problems were caused by bacteria.

Bacterial or viral infection can indeed cause permanent damage that remains after the infection is gone. Lyme disease is like this, and probably many others. (What causes MS?, for example) My mother in law's pancreas was probably destroyed by a "minor" infection, the type doctors do not treat, but ...
by Todzo
Thu Sep 25, 2014 9:44 pm
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: Issues with Compliance
Replies: 72
Views: 8592

Re: Issues with Compliance

To check out the PALM issues simply Google Scholar or PubMed search:

Sleep apnea pcrit

sleep apnea arousal threshold

sleep apnea loop gain

sleep apnea muscle

And note that limiting the search to “since 2010” will yield some nice results indeed.

Happy reading!
by Todzo
Thu Sep 25, 2014 3:51 pm
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: Issues with Compliance
Replies: 72
Views: 8592

Re: Issues with Compliance

Often I wonder how much of CPAPtalk be shills trolls sockpuppets or astroturfers.
by Todzo
Thu Sep 25, 2014 3:40 pm
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: Appreciation of SleepyHead
Replies: 1
Views: 607

Re: Appreciation of SleepyHead

SleepyHead is very much appreciated by me.
by Todzo
Thu Sep 25, 2014 3:39 pm
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: Issues with Compliance
Replies: 72
Views: 8592

Re: Issues with Compliance

julie never offers citations of evidence to support her claims that I can recall - as she shows here yet again
by Todzo
Thu Sep 25, 2014 3:38 pm
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: Issues with Compliance
Replies: 72
Views: 8592

Re: Issues with Compliance

NCSU - Please be careful about what and how much of the previous long note you take as gospel. There have been very many 'contributions' by the poster over time (if not for a short while) on the same subject, referencing some particularly odd and not well substantiated ideas (for all that he's prov...
by Todzo
Thu Sep 25, 2014 2:55 pm
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: Issues with Compliance
Replies: 72
Views: 8592

Re: Issues with Compliance

Hello all, I'm working on a school project at North Carolina State University. Our team is working to address CPAP compliance and we're wondering if any of your would be willing to share why you struggle with compliance. What thoughts do you have? Many, but few that I can share here. PM me if you w...
by Todzo
Thu Sep 25, 2014 1:55 pm
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: device for awakening arousals
Replies: 42
Views: 5165

Re: device for awakening arousals

chris677 wrote:Hello

I would like to know if a device can count and monitor awakening arousals ?
There is other awakening arousals not link to AHI

Thanks
look into EEG (perhaps open eeg) and the latest research dealing with OSA and arousal detected by heart rate variability
by Todzo
Wed Sep 24, 2014 6:01 pm
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: Appreciation of SleepyHead
Replies: 1
Views: 607

Appreciation of SleepyHead

Appreciation of SleepyHead: SleepyHead has been a life saver to me. Without the nightly feedback I would have gotten too far off track to recover. Much thanks to the creator and contributors! So today I moved my donation level to 2/5 of what I intend with the second hundred dollars. However, the exc...
by Todzo
Wed Aug 06, 2014 3:20 pm
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: Results of Pressure Changes
Replies: 2
Views: 859

Re: Results of Pressure Changes

I'm curious, however, about [t]he decrease in obstructives with only a change in maximum pressure. Does this suggest that the machine may have been misidentifying centrals as obstructives and chasing them with pressure increases? Events of any kind raise the level of the stress hormones. Stress hor...
by Todzo
Tue Jul 29, 2014 5:24 am
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: Contec CMS50IW issues
Replies: 8
Views: 1715

Re: Contec CMS50IW issues

Hello, I just recieved a Contec CMS50IW pulse oximeter. I don't think it works. Maybe I'm wrong. Below is a study of me holding my breath for 1:05. I realize there is some latency in saturation decreasing, but I was under the impression it was about 15 seconds. I see no movement at all. The perfusi...
by Todzo
Sat Jul 26, 2014 10:58 pm
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: Bacteria, oh the horror! Sleep supplies and myths
Replies: 67
Views: 7228

Re: Bacteria, oh the horror! Sleep supplies and myths

A little journey "outside the box..." My very healthy husband got a Staph infection of some sort at 47 due to a cut on the back of his hand that turned into an obvious infection. I told him to go to the doctors one night. I was out of town that night and it unfortunately got worse later that night....