Maybe yguion's friend is into bondage and discipline. http://www.tradenote.net/images/users/000/094/846/products_images/754419.jpg Bons, maybe you can play that angle with your hubby. Either convince him CPAP is kinky or get him to let you cuff him to the bed and then hook him up. Maybe there's a w...

My nose blocks up often around 4 or 5 pm, BUT it does that too when not sleeping with the machine. Also depends on what side I am sleeping on, so maybe try your other side and see if that makes any difference? Good luck!

I think I always had it, since I have no other memories than waking up from terrible night mares (choking, drowning, etc) every night ever since I was a small kid. Also in high school was perpetually tired (and hated those grown ups with their remarks of 'I was never tired when I was your age'). In ...

Right, thanks for that. I'll try it with an old one then and see what happens.

The pillows are double-walled. If one of the inner walls gets inverted, it can cause a whistle. Another cause of whistling pillows is a speck of dust or tiny drop of water in the exhaust port. A good wash/rinse or wipe clears that problem. I've noticed that my pillows whistle more when it's time to...

If I understand correctly, your doctor suggests you could do without the CPAP? Because you're borderline? I would get rid of it straight away if that were the case.

Interesting post. My S9 container is like a little tupperware thingy and comes apart easily. Did not realise there were others that would not, for the same machine. Funny that, it seems very inconvenient cleaningwise. Glad you solved the problem!

This is interesting. I only ever got the medium size, so have not tried the large. But I do find them 'noisy', and now am wondering if I should try the large ones. I don't have any leakage with the medium ones, so would it be worth buying them just to try? The pillows are about $80/3 here. And they ...

I would think you only need an adapter for the powerplug, so you can stick it in there?

There's a certain clique of regular posters on here. I KNEW it. They use this forum like a coffee klatch. The Sanctum. They joke around a lot, make lots of posts that are barely relevant, and only occasionally post serious replies to newcomers/strangers, just mostly among themselves. It's only a cl...

Anecdotally, I used to have a lot of dreams about drowning that have gone away with CPAP. I suspect but cannot prove that the dreams were my brain's reaction to an event during REM sleep. DD Exactly those type of night mares I used to have: drowning, someone strangling me, being stuck with my head ...

Thanks Den!

I may be a bit of a neanderthaler, but I just blow into the pillows after washing and put them upside down to dry. I do that in the morning, and they are fine in the evening.

Hi Starlette, As I just wrote in my post (sorry, had not seen yours, have Monday morning brain after spending the entire (!) weekend marking bad essays from first year students): I think the nightmares are caused by the events. I had nightmares all my life, from childhood on, and they stopped immedi...

Hi guys, I had really bad nightmares my whole life, often so scary that I still remember some of them from childhood. In retrospective I think these nightmares were do to the choking during REM sleep. Anyway, as soon as I started sleeping with my APAP in September last year, the nightmares were gone...