The average daily high in Victoria is 79 F, for January, the hottest month. In the US southwest where I live the average daily high is well over 100 F for about 2 1/2 months straight, and can reach into the 120's. We often have 100 days in a row over 100. So come visit me in August, and then home wi...

@Pugsy I actually had a wonderful night. And if what you took away from this is what it appears you took away from this, I think who had the bad night might have been asked and answered. It is now part of the public record here, and can be reviewed. Cool heads will reveal who is lashing out, and who...

The more interesting thing you have raised here is the statement "generally with bilevel pressures we look at EPAP for OAs and IPAP for hypopneas". I understand that raising IPAP to minimize further OAs after encountering them is a common function of an APAP, but I do not understand that statement ...

Anyone considering Ambien or Lunesta should really consider the potential side-effects. We have a reptile brain that all behavior is wired directly to, which operates irrationally, like an infant, with everything wired to basic drives like survival, sex, food, drink. It does not consider consequence...

Pugs, you were not the one confusing me. Everything you say pretty much always makes perfect sense to me. It did not appear that you were even addressing the issue that was confusing me (nor should you have been), which was the reference of the pressure range limits as being numbers representing a s...

those DMEs and doctors like to set these suckers WIDE OPEN when dealing with autos. I guess that's their way of saying, "screw you, let the machine figure this mess out. I don't even know how to fit headgear properly." I think "wide open" actually makes sense when starting out. I also think the rea...

I am a little confused by some of the terminology used here. If IPAP is related to inhalation pressure and EPAP is related to exhalation pressure, then an IPAP of 11.4 and a EPAP of 6.8 implies a bi-level machine, which presents an IPAP pressure of 11.4 and an EPAP pressure of 6.8, for those setting...

...I'm kind of low tech regarding my approach to lamp color in the bedroom. I have an old red pair of jockey shorts I put over the florescent desk-lamp next to my bed. It cuts the light emitted by about 90%, plus the red glow is warm and comforting... anyway, it's handy to deploy my 'red sleep boxe...

I don't think its that critical when you take it. I would take it as soon as the sun goes down, and also after all driving is done for the day. So if you are in for the night, you can take it as soon as the sun goes down. That way you do not have daylight cues fighting with night-light cues (assumin...

And there is your answer. Those numbers indicate virtually full and 100% effective treatment. So when on XPAP, you no longer have SA. It's gone. So then the question becomes "what else is there that could be making you feel bad?", because you no longer have SA. SA pleads "not guilty", and has an iro...

If we step back and take a helicopter view, it is possible that SA has nothing at all, whatsoever, to do with how you feel. It can, but it is not a metric to be depended on. As an example, I have had severe SA for decades and just started therapy 3 months ago, out of the same continuing ignorance th...

Thanks for validating my thought process here. I take it as a sign when a sleep doc schedules you, you fork over a $30 copay, and then after asking basically just one question in the entire session ("How are you doing?") the Dr. says "I can get the DME to download your XPAP and send that to me, if y...

I stopped by the Park Meadows Mall today and checked out the new Somnia sleep store...........what a joke! its mostly bedding, scented candles, and sleep sound machines...........one little section with all ResMed stuff like maybe six to nine different current masks, two AirSense machines. The two ...

I use EPR and my CPAP appears to wait until I begin to exhale to lower rather than being smart enough to predict ~ when I will exhale and basing its timing on that. I found that just a bit annoying; I would be trying to get to sleep and lying there wondering WhyTF won't this machine do a better job ...

OK, so why is Pugsy apparently a lot smarter than my sleep doc? Or most people's? That is great info. I was at 5-20 initially, and he said "go to straight 8". OK, but I never knew why. I agreed that raising the lower limit was a good idea, but I did not understand lowering the high limit, at all. I ...