i felt the same way. i resisted getting the sleep study because i was pretty sure about having OSA and was not looking forward to being hooked up to a machine every night for the rest of my life. i worried what my wife would think. but, hey, let's face it... nobody likes to admit it, as we age we ne...

carbonman wrote:

DoriC wrote:I hope your A & L Band plays "For One Night Only"! And not "Back by Popular Demand"!

...don't sit next to the bass player.

hey... wait a minute... I play bass!



that's ok. i think jnk will back you up on this one!

good for you! glad you had a good first night. it only gets better.

the numbers will make more sense as time goes on, but for now you should concentrate on the leaks. what you posted is not bad, but the lower you can get it the leak rate the more accurate the rest will be.

I think you were comparing your numbers to numbers other people have posted on here. You can't do that, you need to compare your numbers from your original sleep study to your numbers now. You also need to remember that a machine isn't going to record things exactly the way they are recorded in a t...

Katherine-

Thank you for you hard work, dedication, persistence, patience, experience, and kindness. We need you, but your family needs you more.

Best wishes and hope to hear from you once in a while.

fishhead

I may look at the machine on my screen every day but I don't dig into the data. If I see somethign on the screen change then I dig in. Gerry me too. at first i would check it everyday - i found it fascinating and very educational. but for sevceral weeks now, the numbers have been very stable, so mu...

for most of my life, i rarely dreamed. when i started treatment (tx) suddenly i started dreaming! not weird, disjointed, random, but very current and vivid. to the point where i was beginning to have trouble distinguishing whether or not it was in fact a dream. but, now 5 months in, most nights i dr...

Funny, but last night I had one of my most vivid dreams of all time. It was one of those where I was watching myself from a distance in most of it. I was giving a lecture (something I occasionally do in real life) to a large outdoor audience when suddenly everything went wrong--sound system, multim...

i just returned from a 3 week trip, including stops in 5 countries, across 3 continents, ending in a carribean cruise, which meant a total of 7 trips through the security lines. i have to agree with the others that say DO NOT CHECK your machine. it is easy enough to get it through security - the onl...

kenny -

that's GREAT news!!!! we're all very happy for you and your family. thanks for sharing the good news with us.

all the best to you!

yes, thanks, jeff! i couldn't have said it better myself! and the extra sleep last night really helped. definitely worth the $. in fact, it comes with a very nice camera case, but i find it all fits perfectly in the original carry case that my machine came in. so not only do i have all the accessori...

we finally made it back from our trip around the world. overall i had no trouble getting my CPAP equipment through security. all i had to do was remove the machine from the carry case and put it in a separate bin, the rest went through x-ray no problem. most security workers had trouble identifying ...

just an update on how my flight went with my cpap machine: no problem going through security as soon as i explained what it was. the only thing that gave the x-ray person pause was the battery pack. as for in-flight use, i just mentioned to the flight attendant what it was and that i would like to u...

well, i just logged 1000 machine use hours and i feel great! my thinking is clearer, i'm alert and more stable emotionally, and most important of all i'm finally sleeping better. thank you all for your valuable suggestions, experiences, and encouragement to keep going. i wonder how i'll feel this ti...

Hi Everybody Today is my 35th anniversary of stopping drinking.... ...Getting in touch with reality has been painful and difficult, especially as I have had untreated sleep apnea for all of my sobriety, except the last few months. But even so, in sobriety I am at last getting to know me, and what a...