Years ago, before I got treated, I was driving on freeway 15 from last vegas to LA at about 11:00pm at night. There were no cars in front or behind me. I got tired and fall asleep while I was driving. In my dream, I saw a 18 wheeler have a sudden stop in front of my car. I slamed on my break and wok...

thanks slaaplekker and all. I have learned alot and from the experience you all shared in the thread. Yes, I hope we all learned.
You are right. I should invest in a oximeter and monitor that on top of the APAP. I am looking on the internet already.
Will definitely buy one.

Janknitz: I am using the respronic comfort classic mask. I had been using this mask almost from the start of time. Just got the PR1 3 days ago and this machine record the leak.

snoresliketrain: Yeah, I will go turn the ramp off. Still learning this machine.

Thanks Hawthrone and Janknitz:

how do I work on my leak? change a mask? my current mask feel pretty tight when I went to asleep I thought. Kaiser now has a sleep apnea drop in clinic once a week.
I will take advantage of that too, but just thought if there are something easy I could do first.

spend the last 3 days on PR1 APAP, slept much better than I used to on a differnt machine. From my last post, several member suggest to set the initial pressure to higher ( default is 4). My last 3 days stat is as follows: AHI: 2.3 large leak: 6% 90% pressure: 8.7 I think these number are pretty goo...

dug out my first sleep study (Kaiser, sleep in) done 10 years ago: - 6 hour of sleep during study - 50 obstructive apneas - 102 hyponeas and numerous mixed and central apneic events - Apnea Index measurs 25.9, with a total respiratory disturbance index of 40.7 - minimum blood oxygen saturation recor...

[ In other words, if it takes a pressure of 10 to usually prevent apneas for you, I'd set the autopap's minimum pressure at 9 or 10, and then set the maximum pressure wherever I wished up higher... set the max anywhere from 15 to 20. ] Thanks rested gal and all. But could anybody tell me how to chan...

Hi Janknitz: Thanks for your reply. Long story. 9 years ago, I had double insurance. I was using the old SoloFX CPAP, and complain that it was hard to exhile. The practioner was nice enough to suggest Bipap, simply because it allow less force during exhile. I just learn now, after reading this wonde...

capernerbie: You are right. I thought I did login using my username, but I guess when I posted, I was somehow not. Hope it is OK this time. Slinky: Thanks for your reply. My machine had the humidifier on the right side and from reading the forum, it has the standard SD card, so what I had must be th...