Thank you, I would love to be able to sleep thru the night though. Yes, sleeping through the night is a decent long term goal. What you need to realize is that whatever it is that preventing you from sleeping through the night, it's not related to the sleep apnea: Your machine is preventing all but...

For about 5-6 months everything has been great. In the last 3 - 4 weeks things have been getting progressively worse. For me, when my hypopneas start going over 15, I start having issues. I'm now running in the 30s. Do you mean the total number of hypopneas instead of the hypopnea index (HI)? The m...

Susan2 wrote:OH! Wow! I have never posted as those names showing up!!

That's a software glitch here at cpaptalk.com. You didn't do anything wrong when you posted.

Ok my first post didn't show up. I have not been sleeping well at all. I have Panic Disorder and have been dealing with that. I wake up thru the night and this isn't helping with my stress. I went and looked at my machine and I have .2 and below it I am showing .1 central apnea. I have never had th...

Oh, and all 3 issues have happened in the last 4 years. Prior to that, I had zero issues, so give please me some leeway to feel pissed off (not at anyone here, just life in general). Feel free to be as pissed off as you want to. But sooner or later you have to realize that being pissed doesn't acco...

RE-EDITED to include palerider's corrections. Thanks for posting them! And editing palerider's list to include information about the Resmed iVAPS mode, which is the one that is equivalent to PR's AVAPS mode VPAP is a variety of bilevel machines, only ONE of which is an ASV. 36004 S9 "VPAP S" <- not ...

The most common OSA surgery is called UPPP. It typically costs somewhere between $2000 and $10,000 (as compared to the $500-$1000 cost of a CPAP/APAP). I'm aware that UPPP has a low success rate - I was thinking of the lower jaw surgery - something advancement. A quick web search leads to these two...

But it also usually takes a month or two of sleeping with the mask all night long before most people notice a real improvement in how they feel in terms of daytime functioning. In other words, for most people, the improvement in terms of how they feel during the daytime is a gradual process that ha...

2. Breathing through the nose is the proper way to breath during sleep --- not mouth breathing. DON'T ARGUE WITH ME ABOUT THIS STATEMENT OF FACT!!! If you don't believe me then go research it. With that being said: a: Nasal is the 1st best mask choice . Why? See point 2. I use a F & P Eson mask but...

Is he a back sleeper? I can see where a back sleeper has only one issue to deal with - pressure. Side sleepers have more issues and us rare front sleepers (7% apparently) have by far the most issues. Hubby sleeps on his stomach about 70-75% of the night. He flips over on his back now and then durin...

I have been VERY tired lately, but I also started working 1-2 hours a day from home and find it extremely stressful. I gave notice this morning and am hoping once I stop doing this, things might improve. But the PTB reduction shouldn't have anything to do with the job I wouldn't think. I would gues...

Madalot, I think the question is whether the rare neuromuscular disease is progressing, and whether increasing problems with diaphragm weakness/paralysis at night is an expected part of the disease's progression. And those are questions for your team of doctors to answer. But my understanding is tha...

I just purchased the Transcend Auto and the air pressure goes from nothing then to way too much. I have been using a CPAP for roughly 10 years and have never come across anything like this. I can breath in an out a time or 2 before it blasts the air pressure which felt like it was going to pop my e...

but I am not exactly sure what I should be looking for in terms of an improvement with the flow limitation. Simply smaller numbers? I'll try to write more later. But yes, what you should be looking for are smaller numbers on the spikes on the Flow Limitation graph. And fewer spikes. A perfect Flow ...

WT??? You haven't even opened the link, and you become despondent? Yep, I've read so many horror stories - getting less sleep than before (which is not good for me driving long distances or for my job), red marks on the face, open sores, bruising, bloating, sinus problems, sore throats, etc. etc. P...