If that strange, stupid, f*cking idiot of a doctor of yours is ever put on CPAP, then he can choose to PAP without the humidifier and if he's lucky, maybe his nasal mucosa won't rebel, scream, and object every morning. But right now, you're the one using the machine and your nose says, "Use the humi...

Now to start looking at the insomnia issues since fixing your sleep is going to require fixing the insomnia as well as the OSA. So that means learning to sleep well with the alien on your face. You describe your insomnia/sleep as follows: These days, i would go to bed maybe like at 11pm and sleep by...

Dacotto1984, This is a second post concerning the anxiety issues you seem to be dealing with. You write: I am the sole provider and have a child <- this is a whole new lifestyle change. I now have 2 souls that are under my care.. before it was just me and i did whatever i wanted.. now i have to thri...

Dacotto1984, It sure seems to me like you've got a serious case of clinically significant anxiety---as in your anxiety is taking over your whole life and you probably need to be treated for it. If you don't want to take anti-anxiety medication, you really need to see a counselor who can give you som...

KristineL wrote: ↑

Wed Sep 21, 2022 3:44 pm

Hello- I was curious if ‘Delta’ setting on a prescription means Pressure Support? Thanks!

Can you write the whole script down for us?

Or even better, scan it and block out the personal identifying information and post the image?

And it's worth adding to Pugsy's reply: The reason the auto machines respond to flow limitations and snoring is to prevent apneas and hypopneas from happening in the first place. Flow limitations and snoring both indicate the airway is in some danger of collapsing, so the machine increases the press...

I am new to this group and searched for previous posts about this with no luck. I seem to perspire a lot on my face while wearing a silicone mask. My skin broke out terribly so I switched to a foam nasal mask. This helped but has given me issues with two things... Have you considered using a mask l...

^^^ So this tells us how the variable breathing controller affects the machine's decision about whether to leave the pressure alone, increase it, or decrease it, as well as what the rate of increase/decrease is. But having read it, I still don't see information about what variable breathing is and h...

Respirator99,

Thank you for answering my questions!

Wow that's amazing information. I never thought how bad i damaged the inside of my body due to OSA. I am not sure how bad i might have damaged my brain or heart. Are there any scans that i can do to check? Not that I know of. The damage done by OSA include things like inflammation, stress and OSA's...

Thanks for responding! All I changed was the ps jump to 3.0, nothing else. Would it be good to raise it a little more? I would not raise it any more. I'd leave the settings alone for at least 3 or 4 days. Or even a week. And unless there's something other than a vague sense of trying to improve the...

I need help figuring out how to improve my husband's pap therapy. He has way worse apnea than I do, somewhere in the mid-90s. He has been using his bilevel machine a couple of years longer than me and has been happy with his therapy. But now that he has retired I notice that he falls asleep in fron...

I'm 6ft 250lbs male. My symptoms is arousals when dreaming with pounding/racing heart beat which i'm taking a bunch of meds to sedate me/slow heart beat. I was reading more about tidal volume, minute vent and respiratory rate. It looks like I'm within range for TD, MV, but i have high RR. Anyone kn...

Does anyone know if the lanolin can actually soften the silicone in the long run? I am wondering if the ise of lanolin is softening the actual structure. I am on my 3rd cushion in about a month. I still have the old ones to revisit since they only got used about 10 days but wondering if lanolin is ...

But yes, thank you so much for sharing that because now i know i am not the only one. I was thinking, hey! im suppose to be feeling top notch but i guess other factors will always come into play even if you sleep great. For most people, getting used to PAP and starting to feel better is a process :...