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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

Pugsy wrote: ↑

Fri Sep 18, 2020 9:47 am

Soft response is NOT the same thing as the special for Her mode.
It doesn't make the regular autoset auto mode into the for her mode.

Thank you so much, Pugsy! I knew if I asked here I would get the straight scoop!

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...

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...

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...

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?