Thanks for starting this Katny! I had originally posted under the heading "Another Newbie-- CPAP woes" so rather than repeat everything, my history can be found there. I do have some questions about central apnea as well and I will transfer them over here: I've been trying to differentiate between m...

I agree, Mindy-- I'm pretty sure the pressure has gone up well above my bottom setting of 5 (my rx was for 5 by the sleep doc) by the time I start having problems (they start 3 hours into the therapy) so I just don't think that I'm suffering from too much CO2 backing up in my mask or anything like t...

Thanks all. To answer the questions I can, I don't have the ramp feature turned on on my machine. Since my starting pressure was only 5 it was felt to be not necessary. the machine did increase the pressure as it sensed the need during the one night I was able to use it. I don't know if suffocation ...

Hi All, I was told about this site and have spent some time trying to find some answers to my issues-- maybe they are here somewhere but my searches have not turned them up yet. I was recently dx with mild sleep apnea. I went in for a sleep study due to my symptoms of fragmented sleep and daytime sl...