Basically had the same thing happen - I swore to the doc that my study what NOT REPRESENTATIVE of my normal nite. He still didn't believe that I had OSA. I was being worked up for the fatal disease of pulm htn and OSA is the only reversible cause of this so I really wanted to be dx'd with it. So to ...

I was dx. with pulmonary hypertension and they are saying it was also in part due to the severe sleep apnea. Hey Kristy - I also have pulm htn! Just diagnosed and using cpap for 1 month. My systemic bp seems to have come down but I need to wait 6 months before I get another right heart cath(RHC) . ...

Rested gal - thank you on the info on the software and card reader...will get those pronto. I think you hit the nail on the head about the puffing - my tongue falls back ...lets see how nite 2 goes. Let me ask you this....I napped today with it on but really didn't sleep but when I got up my chest a...

last nite was my first night too. My husband woke me up because I was holding the whole headgear in my hand too! Mangaed to keep it on the rest of the night but felt like I was awake swallowing air, puffing out of my mouth and just aware of the whole thing. Did you actually sleep? I have the remstar...

teej - thanks for the input...I did read your earlier post about it getting easier..it helps...what kind of mask do you use?

janelle - great advice...I'll try the larger size....Anne

Hi Jenn and Hello all...friday nite was my first nite of cpap!! Needless to say I didn't sleep well...please tell me it gets easier. I have the remstar auto with cflex set in ccflex of 3 with a pressure of 12 . I have the heated humidifier and a swift nasal pillow. Despite the fact that my husband w...

[quote="chrisp"]Don't overlook the auto units. The extra $ (130 $) is well worth it. If for some reason you don't like it just switch it off and run it in cpap mode. Those straight cpaps work but why take your max pressure if its not needed . It will take some time, a few weeks maybe, to tweak the l...

re: ambien and sleep studies...the first sleep study I had I was devastatingly told that I didn't have sleep apnea and had to look for other causes of my pulm htn...I felt as if I didn't sleep at all that nite - was not at all representative of my normal nite....After lots of tears and my borrowing ...

I agree that you need to find a doctor that knows about the correlation between sleep apnea and cardiopulmoary problems!!! Why don't you make an appointment with a MD that is a pulmonologist (lung doctor) ....the heart and lungs go hand in hand... I had an echo of my heart "for the fun of it" and fo...

oh yeah, I have 4 yo and 1 1/2 yo kids and from time to time need to emergently jump out of bed and deal....any thoughts on masks that would be better and masks to avoid (will want to remove the whole thing quickly so I dont scare the you know what out of them!!!!

I'm very grateful that I found this site!! Been shopping machines and and leaning toward the remstar pro but am at a loss when it comes to the mask...I have pretty bad allergies with nasal stuffiness and don't want to become a afrin addict (am also fairly certain that I am a mouth breather)...do I g...