Reviving this thread rather than start a new one... I didn't even try to use the cpap for most of March -- cataract surgery on both eyes, two weeks apart, was so high stress that also trying to use the machine was out of the question. I have been trying to use it for the last couple of weeks, but wi...

So I've got a few possible suggestions: 1) Since a saline nasal spray typically helps for several hours, it's worth considering doing an honest-to-god nasal rinse ---i.e. a neti-pot. Yes, the idea of essentially "pouring" salt water in one nostril and letting it drip out the other seems highly coun...

Apologies for the delay in responding -- I'm so scatterbrained due to all the stress right now (the rotten sleeping is only part of it) that I didn't even notice the thread had gone to a second page. It's worth asking: During the daytime do you typically breathe through your nose or your mouth? It s...

I can't thank you enough for doing all of this, robysue1. I need information and explanations I can understand, and you've given me more of that in these posts than I've gotten from everyone else combined since this nightmare started. I will try these settings tonight and see how it goes. Out of cur...

Thank you, Robysue. This is information I can work with. That particular feeling of there not being enough air in the mask to get a good, deep inhalation is commonly associated with using the machine at very low pressures---i.e. using a ramp with a beginning pressure of 4 cm or having the min pressu...

My machine does have an SD card. I also downloaded and installed OSCAR. However, I still have a critical question: if the machine is recording bad data, then what good does it do to upload that data so you can see it? You're both saying that the machine is set all wrong, and I know it isn't improvin...

The story so far: I was diagnosed with severe sleep apnea last fall, and got a cpap machine at the end of November. I tried three different masks over the next month-plus, and the least uncomfortable was a Resmed Airfit F40 with a medium cushion, so that's what I've been using. On advice of a friend...

are you certain you need a full face mask? Most suppliers let you swap to a new mask if you dislike the one you currently have. A good question, but yes, I am certain. I have long-standing nasal congestion issues -- don't know the cause, but the effect is that I can't breathe through my nose for ve...

Night four report: I went to bed - with mask - at 10:30 and spent the next four hours lying in bed wide awake, every muscle tight and every nerve tense, because I _need_ to be functional at work today, but sleeping was absolutely out of the question as long as that damned wind was blowing up my face...

Well, on Friday I got a cpap machine from my selected DME. ResMed AirSense 11 with a Evora EVF1XMLA full face mask, set for auto climate and 10cm pressure. I tried using it for the first time last night. Prepared it just the way the gent at the DME showed me, put on the mask, got into bed, and turne...

If you want our opinion on the sleep study report, you will need to block out the personal information and post an image of the pdf pages. I'll do that. First: You had a trial on CPAP that lasted maybe all of 4 hours in a lab situation. Just like you suspect the lab setting of the diagnostic half o...

Wow, a lot of stuff to think about here. Thanks VERY much, robysue1: you're right, these are precisely the sort of questions I need to be asking. Treating nasal congestion does not mean you have to get to all of the "different causes" and somehow fix them. It means treating the symptoms : If you can...

I'm no expert like some of the people here so this is just fwiw, but I was wondering if maybe you need a 2 pronged attack in dealing with the congestion and also the sleep apnea? Have you seen an ENT and/or allergist? Do you have allergies that cause the congestion that could be treated? It's a val...

... then what? I was here briefly a year ago, at which time I got some useful advice and went off to use it. (I also have a feeling I made rather a fool of myself; if anyone was offended, then I offer apologies, because it wasn't intentional.) It's been a while, I know, but I've returned because I s...

In the U.S., you have a legal right to see your sleep study. Ask the clinic for a copy asap. This is useful information; and I'll put it to use this afternoon. Thanks. What are you doing to address the chronic congestion? At the moment, I live with it. At its worst it's like a bad cold -- not a pro...