Well I will put in my 2 cents . . Very cool to read about everybody by the way!

I am an architect by day and a wrangler of 2 adopted children by evenning. The rest of my free time (lol) has been spent in community and proffesional theatres as a lighting and set designer.

I expect that my cold is just being around the kids who of course always have runny noses (esp. my 3 yr old son who goes to day-care everyday). I was just curious about it tho. I will keep cleaning my gear everyday to may sure all is as good as it can be. Now I must go to the store and get some meds...

Hello there CPAP world! Got my cpap machine last week and have been using it for 5 days. Right after I started using it I got a cold (running nose, drainage, headache all the usual). My question is this, has anyone else gotten a cold right after starting this cpap business or do you think it is just...

thanks for the clarification Liz. We shall see how it all works I guess. My DME lady seems to be pretty willing to work with me.

Thanks for the advice folks! The other night at the sleep clinic went fairly well. The tried 4 different maskes on me throughout the night to find something that fit and did not leak. In the end I needed a pressure of 11cm. In consideration of your comments concerning apap and heated humidification ...

thanks for the info friends. I will keep it in mind. Last night went fairly well. 4 different masks throughout the night to find one that did not leak much and a grumpy person helping me. The night seemed to go onfor a very long time. Hardest part may have been staying on my back for an entire night...

Just wanted to tell you all how nice it is to have found this website and to learn from you all. I have always had people tell me I had sleep apnea as well as showing all of the clasic symptoms and finally got a baseline sleep study a few years ago in an effort not to drive my wife away with my 'hon...