I've been waking up multiple times during the night feeling like I can't breathe. I lie there trying to relax and fall back to sleep and I really feel like I'm suffocating, like there isn't enough air. It's not that I'm struggling to get a breathe out, I'm struggling to pull enough air in or somethi...

Don't know, but I do know I still snore like a freight train on my stomach... and on my side... and on my back...
I think the positional thing only helps some people, not everyone.

Well, that could have gone better. The doctor looked at my data and I had my appointment with the DME lady yesterday. I came away with a no-frills cpap machine, the F&P SleepStyle HC233, and the Resmed Mirage Micro Nasal mask. My attempts to suggest a more advanced machine failed so I figured that s...

ARGH! The doctor hasn't even looked at my sleep study results yet! What the h@!! was the point of getting the study done at a truly inconvenient date just so it'd be done that much faster? That does it, I'm definitely getting a Data capable cpap machine and all the software. There is no way I'm goin...

Hey! Does getting more sleep mean we'll heal better?

It seems to me the major flaw in the P&B Goodknight 420E is it's software and connectivity. It'd really drive me crazy to try to deal with hardware and software that's more than 10 years out of date. I don't really have the time to rewrite the software. But then it sounds like all the machines have ...

Zorro: I don't travel for work or all that often, just the occasional vacation: yearly trip to Hawaii, yearly trip to the mountains, little weekend driving getaways, weekends at the inlaws.... Ok, so my cpap needs to be decent at traveling, or at least at getting stuffed into a overnight bag. Sleepl...

Wow! There are so many choices in both machines and masks that I hardly know where to start! I think I'll be happiest if I go into the meeting with the doctor/dme (not sure which) already knowing what equpiment I want. Fortunately, the start of the treatment is a rental period where I can swap out s...

Ambling Armadilio! It told me to get a cup of coffee, sounds like good advice! I'll try it again once I get my cpap back. Although this could help explain why I suck so badly at video games. Ooh, Does this mean once I'm well rested I can finally beat my hubby at video games?? *rubs hands together li...

*sigh* I wish. But the way this place works is that first I have to wait until the doctor 'reviews' and interprets my sleep study. He promised he'd look at it friday, so monday. Then I make an appointment. Then I get a rental machine. Then I come back in a week to talk to the DME lady about how I'm ...

So I just finished my second titration determining sleep study. I didn't really sleep all that well during it due to several factors. The Resperonics Bipap Symphony(?) (run in cpap mode) was very noisy. I also had what the technician called REM-rebound, and I call the nastiest, most vivid, nightmare...

I've been trying to dig up information on the forum about software, and it looks like I'll have to put bootcamp or something on my mac to read it. I'm sure my husband has a copy floating around. It might help encourage us to get a 'family' mac mini or something. I will definitely read up on the revi...

Well, they wouldn't let me keep it. But I ran into the DME lady as I was handing the machine back to the front desk and she intervened for me. Instead of waiting for them to look at the data in a few days and then booking the next sleep study, she told the front desk to schedule me their first free ...

Because it's in my nature to worry about things, I'm now worried that they won't let me have a cpap at all! I finally got into the summary data on the machine and it says my average pressure was 7.6 with an average nightly usage of 7.1 hours. (I clearly need to adjust my bedtime to earlier). So now ...

I don't care if my insurance co says no, I'll pay to keep the loaner myself! Well my loaner cpap machine is a Remstar M series auto something with the attached integrated heated humidifier. I'm not sure of the difference between c-flex and a-flex, but it does adjust somehow when I breathe out. I hav...