We've been considering purchasing a SLEEP NUMBER BED. I'm the one with sleep apnea and sleep on my side and experience discomfort and pressure points with our current mattress. I've heard a lot of positive feedback about the SLEEP NUMBER Mattress/Bed. I've also heard that it is advisable - if you c...

The purpose of the exhaust vent is to flush your exhaled breath out so that you don't re-breathe it. Re-breathing can load you up on carbon dioxide and cause problems. H oseCrusher... thank you! I was looking at the vent tonight.. and playing around with placing a piece of gauze over it... and then...

Are you being titrated at home, or is there some other reason your machine is running "wide open" (4 to 20)? Hopefully your doctor has plans to determine your ideal pressure range and narrow that pressure range down. When it is set wide open like that, the machine has to "chase" the events, so it g...

Both Robyuse and Slartybartfast are on the mark with me. Since I'm just beginning with CPAP and the S9.... the Air Pressure they have started with me is pre-set ramp with a min of 4 to a max of 20. So I start out at 4. My AHI.... varies between 2 and 3 a night And the Air Pressure has never maxed o...

I'm now on my 6th or 7th week of CPAP with the FX Swift Mask and the ResMed S9 AutoSet. I've been diagnosed with "mild" apnea. I'm definitely sleep better... or a better description would be more "solidly".. even tho I am still awakening in the night... but the intervals have shifted from 2 to 3 ho...

...when you instal the ResScan software on a windows PC the clinicians manual can be found on your hard drive under c:\program files\resmed\ResScan3\ResScan Clinician's Manual.pdf See if you can locate that, it will answer your questions. Page 30 explains the detailed data. you need to turn on "sle...

I am aware that this subject has been discussed previously, but I am looking for, perhaps, more recent developments, experience and feedback. And, specifically, would like to locate reputable and fair-priced resources from whom I can purchase a visco memory foam mattress topper... a well as one who...

No tags on the pillow--so went to the website. My pillow is the neck pillow--it's contoured.

Thanks, Scrapper... appreciated!

Cobra, Thanks... I've already have discovered that the difficulties to mask adjustment become more specific over time... more intrusive in your sleep. Other words, initially the experience was general. Last night was a breakthrough with mask adjustments/fit... primarily due to reading a detailed un...

I'm just completing my 3rd week on CPAP... and adjusting slowly.. but definitely moving forward. So, I'm looking at the various ways I can increase my ease in falling asleep and one of them is definitely changing out the pillow... which has been pure goose down. But now with the mask gear, it is no...