Loved the post, Dee - I'm also supposedly a highly intelligent human, a hosehead veteran of almost three weeks now. In week one, I tolerated a loud "farting" noise, then an obnoxious whistling noise from my machine. I thought "if this is one of the quietest CPAPs on the market, I'd hate to hear the ...

Okay, one more. Rested Gal - thanks for the links. I did read them and found them encouraging and interesting. This is truly a great resource. I feel I was fortunate with the mask, considering I could hardly spell CPAP three weeks ago. A DME that I could not work with (didn't work with my insurance)...

I believe I'm feeling small improvements, including some energy increase here or there. It isn't dramatic yet. I admit I'm hoping for dramatic. At the sleep study they made me watch a video. It was of a fairly young (albeit somewhat overweight) guy who would fall asleep playing cards, eating, and pr...

I'm glad to hear it's no big deal. I was instructed to bring my CPAP and told I would be using it. The doc says they have a new way of doing this that eliminates that packing. I'll know more when I get there. The doc wants me to stay overnight because of the apnea. I'm going to try to talk him out o...

Thanks for the great responses! Obviously I was hoping for blue skies and turbo boost from day one - oh well. BTW I am registered, but for some reason it would not let me post the message even though I was logged in. My handle is Wildwind - hopefully I'll figure out how to get that working. All cont...