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by Lug_Nut
Fri Apr 30, 2010 7:17 pm
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: Newbie would like to hear success stories, please.
Replies: 770
Views: 3918733

Re: Newbie would like to hear success stories, please.

My first month is over. The machine's memory has been downloaded onto the stick and mailed off. I am experiencing no benefit, only less sleep and facial bruising. So,... what will I do? Well, since I am not sleeping any better on the hose than I was prior to receiving the machine, since I can't comf...
by Lug_Nut
Fri Apr 23, 2010 7:09 pm
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: Newbie would like to hear success stories, please.
Replies: 770
Views: 3918733

Re: Newbie would like to hear success stories, please.

Back on the 8th I posted about my lack of success. Well.... I've been able to adjust the mask so that it doesn't leak, and doesn't leave me with a "warning triangle" for half the day. I've figured out how to secure the hose between the mattress and headboard so that it doesn't droop and pull the mas...
by Lug_Nut
Wed Apr 14, 2010 6:42 pm
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: new and very frustrated
Replies: 11
Views: 2294

Re: new and very frustrated

The mask set-up the equipment rep made turned out to be quite incorrect (his April Fool's joke on me, perhaps?) I've now taken the time to read the manual and have adjusted it properly. It still isn't "comfortable", but I don't have the red warning triangle on my face that lasts for 4 hours after I ...
by Lug_Nut
Tue Apr 13, 2010 8:06 pm
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: Remembering dreams
Replies: 49
Views: 11981

Re: Controlling dreams

A post by -SWS back on 21 Dec mentioned "lucid dreaming". I happen to be one that has been able to use that. When I was younger, I frequently had nightmares: monsters chasing and catching me, falling from heights onto rocks, and so forth. I'd wake up screaming and sweaty and too afraid to go back to...
by Lug_Nut
Mon Apr 12, 2010 5:55 pm
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: how do i post my pics and info of my cpap and masks
Replies: 1
Views: 761

Re: how do i post my pics and info of my cpap and masks

Near the top left of this, and every page, there is a line of text: "User Control Panel". Click on the text.
On the next page click on the "Profile" tab.
Then there is a drop-down list of equipment and a choice of showing your equipment as images, or as text, as part of your 'signature'.
by Lug_Nut
Thu Apr 08, 2010 6:18 pm
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: distilled water
Replies: 27
Views: 18968

Re: distilled water

Boiled water will actually accelerate the buildup of mineral deposits. The act of boiling the water will drive off some water as steam, but that will simply make the mineral percentage higher in the remaining water. Distilled water is produced from collecting the mineral-free steam, and condensing i...
by Lug_Nut
Thu Apr 08, 2010 6:12 pm
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: Newbie would like to hear success stories, please.
Replies: 770
Views: 3918733

Re: Newbie would like to hear success stories, please.

I'm alternately pleased to read that the successes are not always immediate, and annoyed that I can't use my lack of equivalent success (after less than a week) as justification to myself to scrap the whole thing. I've not been 100% compliant, mostly because the mask I've been assigned, sight unseen...