Search found 515 matches
- Fri Dec 11, 2020 6:24 pm
- Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
- Topic: Blood oxygen, heart rate, monitoring -- can I pick your brains?
- Replies: 1
- Views: 341
Blood oxygen, heart rate, monitoring -- can I pick your brains?
I had a lab sleep study and was shocked to learn that I no longer am considered to have apnea. I'm having some trouble getting my head around this, after 6 years of sleeping with the machine, and 6 years of knowing that I can always go look at my data and reassure myself that everything was ok and u...
- Thu Dec 10, 2020 12:47 am
- Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
- Topic: Gobsmacked-- had sleep study, and now I don't have apnea anymore?!?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1245
Re: Gobsmacked-- had sleep study, and now I don't have apnea anymore?!?
It looks, apart from anything else, like your min. pressure wants to go higher but is being blocked by the low max setting... haven't read back all of your notes, but is there a reason it's that low (vs e.g. the usual of 20)? This is me trying to do my own "sleep study" of not letting the machine r...
- Wed Dec 09, 2020 3:48 pm
- Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
- Topic: Gobsmacked-- had sleep study, and now I don't have apnea anymore?!?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1245
Re: Gobsmacked-- had sleep study, and now I don't have apnea anymore?!?
First of all you need to figure out if you were really asleep or not when the clusters of apnea events happened. ... As for the flow limitations....any chance you are experiencing any nasal congestion? Actually I'm pretty sure that they are real. I know from experience that the machine sees flow li...
- Wed Dec 09, 2020 1:16 am
- Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
- Topic: Gobsmacked-- had sleep study, and now I don't have apnea anymore?!?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1245
Gobsmacked-- had sleep study, and now I don't have apnea anymore?!?
I was diagnosed with apnea in spring 2014, got a then 1st-generation AirSense10 which I started using on Oct 10, 2014. My sleep study showed oxygen went down to 80%. My AHI was 45 REM and 9 nonREM, with 77 hypopneas (34 non-REM, 43 REM) and 14 OAs (9 nonREM, 5 REM). Back then I weighed 267lbs. I sta...
- Sun Dec 06, 2020 6:46 pm
- Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
- Topic: I've tried 2 full face masks so far
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1082
Re: I've tried 2 full face masks so far
I used an Amara View for 2 years, and I was a fan, but the fit on it is very unforgiving. I have the opposite problem -- I'm too small for the mask. I switched to the Dreamwear, and it is more forgiving fit-wise. I did a mask study last year where I wore the F30 for 6 weeks. It's clearly designed to...
- Sun Dec 06, 2020 6:13 pm
- Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
- Topic: A10 says AHI was 2.2, but didn't record them!
- Replies: 1
- Views: 435
A10 says AHI was 2.2, but didn't record them!
According to the front panel of my machine, and according to MyAir, I had an AHI of 2.2 last night. I slept 5:48, so that's 13 events. But when I loaded the data into OSCAR, it only shows a single OA, Screen Shot 2020-12-06 at 5.53.22 PM.png which I figured as sleep-wake junk, as it was 60 seconds a...
- Sun Dec 06, 2020 12:54 am
- Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
- Topic: If you have a kind of big head then which full face mask are you using
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1030
Re: If you have a kind of big head then which full face mask are you using
I have the opposite problem (insert Zippy the Pinhead joke here.) Back when I used an F10 the headgear was ridiculously too big and the straps irritated my ears. I cut through the "X" on the back of the headgear and overlapped the sides and safety-pinned it together to make it a lot smaller and was ...
- Sat Dec 05, 2020 1:11 pm
- Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
- Topic: Using Cpap during a Vertigo attack
- Replies: 21
- Views: 1764
Re: Using Cpap during a Vertigo attack
This is really off-topic from the original poster, but there seem to be some fellow vertigo victims here so I am seizing the opportunity to pick your brains! In March 2013, when I pretty much certainly was suffering from undiagnosed and untreated apnea, I had a particularly bizarre attack of vertigo...
- Tue Sep 22, 2020 9:46 pm
- Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
- Topic: does any APAP algorithm have an "ignore flow limitations" option?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1670
does any APAP algorithm have an "ignore flow limitations" option?
I have an Airsense 10 that I've been using for my six years of being on CPAP. I'm thinking about getting a new machine because I'm kind of nervous about what happens if this one fails -- nothing lasts forever, and it's a mechanical device. That means that I can actually consider the advantages and d...
- Fri Sep 18, 2020 10:56 am
- Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
- Topic: Major weight loss and high pressure issues
- Replies: 55
- Views: 6878
Re: Major weight loss and high pressure issues
Just a random thing to throw out there as another person who has lost a lot of weight. (I went from 270 to 140). I kept getting hit with what felt like terrible gas, mostly focused on the right side under the bottom of my ribs. I took all sorts of evasive action for aerophagia with adjustments in my...
- Fri Sep 18, 2020 10:34 am
- Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
- Topic: Time For A New Machine
- Replies: 30
- Views: 4027
- Fri Sep 18, 2020 9:41 am
- Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
- Topic: Time For A New Machine
- Replies: 30
- Views: 4027
Re: Time For A New Machine
Ok, back up here, I realize that I have missed some important things happening in resmed land. I got my Airsense 10 on October 11, 2014. The A10 was brand spanking new, and mine came off the assembly line just a few weeks earlier. At the time I really wanted to try the "for her" version, but that wo...
- Wed Sep 16, 2020 9:25 pm
- Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
- Topic: Time For A New Machine
- Replies: 30
- Views: 4027
Re: Time For A New Machine
I'm in the same boat -- just had surgery that's going to take me to my out-of-pocket max, and thinking it might be a good idea to retire the old A10 to a backup and go with a new machine. When I got my A10 in 2014 it was 3 weeks before the "for her" was available. I really wanted to have it, but was...
- Sat Sep 05, 2020 4:44 pm
- Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
- Topic: COVID 19, CPAP, Ventilator MEGA THREAD...everything go here please
- Replies: 822
- Views: 225477
Re: COVID 19, CPAP, Ventilator MEGA THREAD...everything go here please
There are also ACE2 receptors on the surface of alveolar cells in the lungs. Sure, but the mechanism is believed to be that the virus attaches to the ACE2s in the nose and starts replicating. Then after the volume of virus increases by a gazillion-fold, it travels down the respiratory tract and int...
- Sat Sep 05, 2020 8:37 am
- Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
- Topic: COVID 19, CPAP, Ventilator MEGA THREAD...everything go here please
- Replies: 822
- Views: 225477
Re: COVID 19, CPAP, Ventilator MEGA THREAD...everything go here please
Since covid apparently infects a person by attaching to ACE2 receptors in the nose, has anyone tried wearing some sort of nose plugs full-time to prevent infection?