I picked up a Resmed Vantage for a good price on cpapauction. My titrated pressue is 8, I've been running at 10 so I set the APAP at 8-12. My AI ran a little better than my average, but my HI was about the same as it's been. Here are my numbers from last night: AI: .2 HI: 5.2 95% pressure: 11.6 I ca...

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What the software will give you that the machine readout won't: 1) Detailed graphs of all apnea/hypopnia events. It plots all events on a graph, apneas are displayed with the length of each event. You can see if your events are happening in a cluster or spread out through the night. Knowing the leng...

Only to have it ruined by 2 hours of really bad sleep? Saturday night I went to bed at about 1am. I woke up at about 6am and checked my AHI. It was in the normal range I'd been experiencing -- AI<1 and HI at 3 or 4. I felt fine, but not rested enough to get up. I slept until 10 and felt like absolut...

I titrated at 8cm, but I slowly bumped up to 9cm and my AHI fell accordingly. A couple weeks later I bumped to 9.2. My best night was about 2 weeks ago, at 9cm where I only had 1 apnea the whole night. Lately though my AI has been between .7 and 1.5, probably averaging at about 1. My HI has been bet...

Some very interesting pork in there. There is one very good thing though: Parity for Mental Health Care. It requires insurance companies to provide the same benefits for mental health care as it does for other medical care. California, where I live, already has a parity law for some conditions. I im...

Thank you Babbette and Gasp. It's like a whole new world has opened up to me. I'm really hoping things work out. This girl's worth fighting for.

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I've had a string of failed relationships including a divorce. I'm only 29 and after my last breakup I wondered if I'd ever figure out what's wrong me so I could have a normal relationship. Basically I'd meet someone and they'd see a happy, engaging person. But after a while, I'd let my guard down a...

I think the biggest obstacle with CPAP is that if you don't take to it like fish to water, then in makes the bad sleep you're already getting even worse. It took me less than 2 weeks weeks until it completely broke my spirit. I had planned to be one of the ones who took right to it, but that didn't ...

Sorry one more question Is it worth it to acquire the data card / software? Seems most the information is on the LCD just have to check in the morning before I get up. (and then I log it on the pc and can track / graph it) Like you i switched from/to the same machine. That and a different mask has ...

The aeropahgia has gone away after making some changes, I'm not sure which one did it, or if it's a combination, but I'm back to sleeping on my side mostly, I stopped using EPR, or maybe I just got used to the new mask. I felt like the EPR was trying to breathe for me, plus I felt it was compromisin...

Hi, I'm on my 4th week and switching to nasal pillows made all the difference for me. I was having back acne on my forehead and under my eyes. I had to wash the mask everyday and my face twice a day. Like you I was really disappointed it didn't help right away. After less than 2 weeks I broke and wa...

I'm starting my 4th week now. I has a few nights where I slept though the night before last weekend, but I just started using a new mask and I'm sleeping much more comfortably. I'm using the ramp feature now and falling asleep before it gets to full pressure. I'd say three weeks is a good estimate, ...

grr! Last night I had an AHI of 18! (a=2, h=16). I've been back to square one in terms of learning to breathe with the new mask, but when I woke up this morning I wondered if it was even on because I had gotten used to the breathing. I wonder if I screwed up the numbers during the hour it took me to...

I was given a bottom of the line Resmed from my DME and the not having access to data from troubleshooting was killing me. So I picked up a barley used S8 Elite and have been using it the last two nights. I also switched from a cushion mask to the Swift II nasal pillows. The pressure felt a lot high...