I will answer the second question. You can't see the highest pressure becuse you typically are asleep (or at least mostly, and too incoherent to make sense of reading). Mine has gone as high as 13 pretty much every night according to the card reading, but I never have seen it above 10 and only once ...

My apologies, Christine. I should have used less absolute language. I do believe that you should avoid taking it every day if possible. If you are likely to fall asleep at the wheel if you don't take it, then the risk of becoming dependant gets weighed against the potential danger to yourself and ot...

The last two nights I have not been sleepy until late and then woke during the night and had trouble getting back to sleep. I got about 3-4 hours each of the last 2 nights. Prior to that, I had been doing very well with sleep, getting 6 or more hours on APAP every night for a few weeks. Now comes th...

I am taking Provigil as needed - some days none, some days one and somed ays two. On the days I take two, it has to be pretty early in the day or it will affect my sleep that night but one is more easily overcome. What is your dosage? My understanding is that it is started at a low dose because some...

It's the humidifier ! I had moved the machine from room to room and forgot to turn the humidifer back on before using it (seems to lose that setting when unplugged). No blowouts. Remembered to turn it on last night and woke up with it blown out again - even with the headband on. I had been a little ...

Did you get the hose with it or are you using an "untainted" one? I suspect it would retain a lot and could be washed. You should also contact Respironics and see what they say.

I was thinking about your score. 143 an hour is one every 25 seconds. I didn't think they would count anything that close together as multiple events, but I am not a doctor. My events varied in duration from 20 to 65 seconds (that I wasn't breathing) and the worst it got was during REM at 54 per hou...

I sleep on my back and sometimes on my side, but I don't toss and turn, so I can get away without all the straps (or at least I did for a while). I use medium plus prongs and they fit pretty snug.

I haven't sent it yet since he doesn't need it for a while and I may just do the barter system - send him my smart card and have him read it and send it back with the report. Shipping will not be much; I will send it book rate mail, so it would hardly be worth worrying about anyway.

I used the headband last night. It really isn't that bad; not nearly as much of a pain as most masks I looked at. It does the trick. It forces a bend up in front of the temples that makes it much harder to pop free without adding any pressure against the nose. But I used to be able to put it on in a...

I should have added that in my case I had to use the DME so I did go back to my doctor and have my prescription written for an APAP with a range. I am very fortunate to have a good doc that will have conversations with me (where he actually lends some credence to what I say if I have researched it) ...

bozman, Mikesus and sgrol, in that order, replied to my offer of the same humidifer after it was claimed.

I think it is like learning to walk and run again after recovering from a serious accident. It's been so long since you had to exercise control over the various emotions that it doesn't come naturally. We supress a lot of emotions without even thinking about it. But when you have been devoid of emot...

If you check the profile and look at some old posts, the poster looks fairly genuine, but I am not so sure about the site referenced. I think a lot of us hope that OSA explains all the troubles and xPAP will fix it and start grasping at straws if it doesn't. I must admit I haven't stopped looking at...

First call your insurance company. Some want to deal with the DME exclusively (mine is that way) and the cost savings may not be what you think (my insurer pays my DME less than half what they bill) so insurance companies aren't always swayed by low price quotes. But if they are and allow you to buy...