I can log in, but it logs me right back out when I try to see posts or get my Private Messages. Very frustrating! -Tangents Ditto- I try to send pm and it just goes to my 'outbox' and sits there- I get the 'message sent' message, but it's not recorded in my sent box, and is sitting in my outbox- bu...

This should be a sticky thread- good work rested gal, and thanks for all the info posted in one spot- will make thigns much easier to find if I ever decide to take hte plunge into the bottomless pit of smart card reader Hades lol. Would like ot have the info from smart card, but have really been put...

Hunter- isn't is absolutely infuriating how doctors just brush us off as 'depressed' or 'suffering from anxiety' or being 'psychosomatic/hypochondriacs' when all along we've been suffering from a potentially fatal physical problem like sleep apnea? I too was for 16 years brushed aside and given prac...

The lungs hurting is like having bronchitis which causes a burning sensation when you inhale that makes you cough, at least that's what I find when my lungs hurt- No, I'm not sure which oils might cause problems- I think though,m that essentially, most is filtered out by the filter and we're perhaps...

I asked sleep doc for sedative/hypnotic for sleep study. He gave me Ambien with the comment that it would make sleep-disordered breathing worse. Probably they all do. At least melatonin is not a controlled substance like almost all the others. Well that's my feeling on it, and judging by how I feel...

cool Jen, awaiting the report as I'm desperately in need of mask that doesn't hurt and seals good that iu can request from my dme.

Yes Yes snoredog- the studies don't exist- the information that therte is the possibilitiy that adding DRUGS to your system might be harmful doesn't exist, the fact that there hasn't been extensive testing for the DRUG shouldn't bother anyone in the slightest, and messing with our systems without an...

the links still work for me- maybe the site was down temporarily? It was a study done on sleep apnea patients that showed increased levels of melatonin in the afternoon when melatonin is supposed to be lowest. I'm wondering if perhaps that is hte reason that people with sleep apnea have such a hard ...

can't really say it is helping my asthma muc- in the beginning, I thought perhaps it was, but after time, I see I'm right back needing my meds still- but I smoke as well, and that definately isn't helping at all. Be careful with the oils though as some oils can cause inflamation of hte airways if yo...

again, you are talking about RATS! YOUR POINT??? "In human tissue, melatonin caused bronchial smooth muscle relaxation in surgical specimens obtained from patients suffering from bronchiectasis and lung cancer (49). No significant adverse effects were reported by our subjects after melatonin treatm...

oh really? " Abstract: The influence of melatonin on alpha- and beta-adrenergic responses of vascular smooth muscle ex vivo were examined in these experiments. Melatonin caused a dose-dependent relaxation of precontracted (30 mM KCl) vascular smooth muscle." http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/...

SAG- do you know if that is a problem with full face masks as well? James, perhaps the surgery will address the tissue mucosa problem as well. I watched a video on a pituitary surgery (Because I had a pit tumor and was nervous about the surgery going up through the nose into the brain cavity) and I ...

Yup, they did the exact saME THING to me, didn't know what was causing my muscle pain/weakness, and basically wrote me off as 'depressed'- Tried several different drugs, and they all made my condition worse- one exception was elavil, which did make me sleep very soundly, but it did nothign to help m...

As Brenda said- give it a good long time to work- it will take awhile to get our bodies back to normal- sounds like your machine ios working good, and no significant problems, so just give it another couple of months at least. Also, waking up even once at night, when coupled with the fact that it's ...

[[Last night I used a 1mg pill taken about 1.5 hours before mask time and I woke up at 3am wide awake. My mind blinked awake and i couldn't get back to sleep for over an hour.]] Yup- Any kind of 'sleep help' medications do that to me too- I will fall fast asleep for about 3-4 hours, then my mind jus...