Folks: Any of you folks experience this and if you did what did you do about it? After sleeping with my CPAP machine I often wake up groggy and have ADD type symptoms. I seem to be disoriented, cant stay on task, and pretty much out of it not being able to concentrate. I usually return to normal aro...

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How difficult is it to install? What do I need? What device detects the sleep events and communicates it to the software? How do you download it to your computer? Does the software wear out after 200 nights of data or will it overwrite the data? Do you need to use the software nightly???

Reted Gal: Thanks for the reply. I am on a full regimen of Vit/Mineral suplements including Kelp, Gum Guggul, Co-Q10 and Russian Rhodiola. My settings are 16/12 cm H20 with an IPAP/EPAP sensitivity setting of 7. I use an ultra mirage FFM and a Puritan Bennet GK 425. In my 5 years of therapy, I alway...

Thyroid enzyme panels have come in fine (T3, T4 and TSH) and was the first thing I looked at. Wilsons Thyroid Syndrome has the same sypmtoms...weight gain, fatigue and brain fog until the evening. Monitored my body temperature throughout the day...and it was within range. I am on No Meds whatsoever....

No PLM or RLS...I am a mouth breather and use a full face mask. Once on BiPAP I sleep like a mummy.....yet I still have trouble waking up and feeling 100% awake until about 5PM....

Folks: What types of symptoms lead some of you to ask your doctor for provigil? No matter what my sleep study says! I don't feel 100% refreshed from sleep. If I didn't have to go to work I could easily sleep in for 10-12 hrs. I am currently doing 9-10 hrs of sleep with by Bipap and when I wake up, a...

I'mm gonna try rinsing the mask before use and see. Maybeb there ar particulates in the mask flying around.

Forgot to mention I use a FFmask because I am a mouth breather. Nasal interfaces would require a chin strap which I havd no luck with whatsoever!

Merlin: Yes I do...and it's even worse when I turn it on!

Guys: I wake up several times a night because my nose itches so bad I have to pull the mask off, scratch my nose then put trhe mask back on. What is the root cause? and How can I remedy it? I use a Puritan Bennet GK425. Theat machine comes with the Cheesey sponge type filter that would only filter o...

Folks: I Purchased a new Bilevel machine from my DME in December 2004, and Keep getting bills for a rental on said machine. The DME says that this is what the insurance company's preference. Insurance Company says it's not so...but they keep paying the bills for a rental and charging me a patient Sh...

Thanks Chris.... But the GK 420E is an APAP. You don't get current draw surges from CPAP or APAP. A deep cycle marine battery will work, because there is no curcuit breaker on it...but it weighs 55 lbs! and you need to take it to a gas station to charge it. I contacted a battery expert through my co...

Guys: Does anyone have success running a Bi-Level device using a 12Volt Battery?? Last night I did a test run with a 22 Amp hour "Jump Start Max" from Walmart. My machine only draws 1 amp, so I thought I was good to go! NOT!!!!....Seems that curent surges trip the internal circuit breaker in the bat...

Chris

While I agree that with Insurance companies the "Odds are with the house" but if we let them get ripped off, they will increase the "Ante(sp?)". It comes back as increased premiums and lower coverage!

Ballast: While your auto glass story is valid.....If we as consumers don't stand up for ourselves, the result is higher premiums for all. There is no practical reason for insurance companies to get ripped off, because in the long run they will put their hands in your pocket to compensate for unethic...