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Hello all, I share with you today my Pulmongy office called to schedule an office visit. While talking with the nurse I asked if it made any difference if I was breathing through my mouth, she said I should talk to the doctor, but would put me through to the nurse practitioner. So I spoke to the pra...

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Welcome to the forum! It won’t matter whether you slept with mouth open or closed. We could provide a little more detail if you could describe what the test kit contained. Thank you for your welcome, As best as I can tell the measurement of the air flow is done by this: honda_002.jpg Thanking you f...

chunkyfrog wrote: ↑

Sat Jun 11, 2022 7:15 am

If your sleep test included a pulse odometer, I'd wager you picked it up
from Advanced Auto Parts.
Please say you didn't do that.

Hello and thank you

Auto correct does strange things. I typed oximeter but it was changed to odometer.

Thank you

Thank you
As I said, the apparatus was Resmed Apnea Airlink, which uses a nasal cannula, a pulse odometer, and two body belts.
Thank you for helping me understand.

Hello. I just had a home sleep study with Resmed link Air apparatus. I have not gotten the results from my physician yet - so I don't know what was found. However reading this forum for the past couple of days has alerted me to a possible problem. My wife tells me that I sleep with my mouth open, so...