Oh Shell - it sounds like you are having a tough time with it and I feel for you. Keep trying all the amazing advice on here - that's what I am doing! $50 a week is ridiculous - the place I'm using it expensive, and that's under $30 a week (for a cracking machine). I'll send you the details - I'm su...

Hey Shell - where are you? When you say AU, I'm not sure if that's Australia or an abbreviation of a US State (although I can't think of any!). My trial is $99 for the month - including unlimited swapping of masks (I've stuck with the first one they gave me) and appointments - again, I only needed t...

palerider wrote:

Pugsy wrote: I honestly think I'd rather have a machine that's been used a little, just to make sure there's no quirks in it, before having it shipped to the other side of the world...

That's a very good point Palerider!

I should clarify, I am not self-treating - well, not really! I did a in-hospital sleep study (cost me $1,000 pretty much) - the results were low AHI, but moderately high RDI (and very little REM sleep). The suggestion was try loosing a bit of weight - I could (should!) loose 5-10 kgs - not a huge am...

JimW159 wrote:Read grayghost's post again; he says it IS new.

It does, but the photo shows that it has been used for 363 hours - so I think new means new condition, not brand new, never used.

Thank you everyone - all very helpful! I don't have an issue buying from the US - I actually have a US mailbox address (I haven't used it in years, but still pay for it!). It seems that's the way to go. I'll have a think about the one you have for same GrayGhost - I'm thinking I want a brand-new, ne...

Thanks Pugsy - that's interesting and helpful

G'day fellow Aussie! Mine was 0.7 last night - hence I'm feeling great this morning! Pretty sure it wasn't 0.7 the night before my trial started! Who knows why is works for some but not others - I guess just because it isn't perfect. For me, it probably worked for 99% of them - I'm pretty happy with...

So this is a question for the experienced users! You may have read from my other post that I am a newbie, and recent supporter of CPAP! I am nearing the end of my trial and have decided I want to continue and buy my own machine. So - where to start, what to do etc.! Obviously the easiest thing to do...

I want to post this for anyone, like me, who has read this forum (and everything else available on the internet!), looking for CPAP information prior to trying. I could write all day on this - about how I found out I perhaps had some form of sleep apnea, why I was so averse to CPAP (I was ridiculous...

Thanks Pugsy! I've just woke up after night 3. Still woke up a lot through the night unfortunately The app says I had 1 obst apnea (I remember waking up during that one confused as to why the machine hadn't fixed it!) and 12 hypopneas. Probably explains why I'm still feeling tired! The good thing is...

So, over a year ago I did a sleep study - posted the results on here and got told get CPAP pretty quick! Well, it took me this long to do it - but things got worse and I realised I had to do something...! Sooooo, I'm on a one month trial. I had an amazing consultant - and have ended up with (what I ...

Yea, I don't think anyone suggested either of those results were mild? Just not too severe. Does everyone thing that weight loss will not make any improvement? That was actually what the consultant's (respiratory and sleep specialist) recommendation was - the provent was more of an additional thing ...

Thanks Julie and Kaiasgram
I think the leaving CPAP until last is more of a cost thing - rather than buy the machine just now, give weight loss a proper go for six months and see what happens - and these strips may help a little meantime.
I think that is coming from the results being not too severe.

Evening everyone! I've been reading this forum (almost every post!) for the past six months or so since I first suspected sleep apnea. There seems to be a wealth of information - and it's helped put my mind at ease about it and want to get it diagnosed/fixed. I finally did a sleep study and got my r...