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- Thu Mar 22, 2012 9:23 am
- Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
- Topic: How often do you clean your equipment?
- Replies: 45
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Re: How often do you clean your equipment?
I clean all my stuff yearly, right before I go to see the sleep doctor, so he won't crab at me.
- Tue Mar 20, 2012 4:35 pm
- Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
- Topic: Lurching Happily Along
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1196
Re: Lurching Happily Along
Lovely, startling, delightful. I never in my life thought I'd say this, but I am sooooo glad to be receiving O2. I haven't felt this good in 12 years.chunkyfrog wrote:Isn't it lovely when something actually WORKS?
A "WOOHOO" is appropriate, I think.
- Tue Mar 20, 2012 9:45 am
- Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
- Topic: Lurching Happily Along
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1196
Lurching Happily Along
Four nights...four consecutive nights of solid, comfortable, refreshing sleep. Before they added O2 to my treatment. I'd wake up every two hours, use the bathroom and struggle to go back to sleep for an hour. They added O2, and I either wake up once per night, or not at all. And when I do wake up, I...
- Sun Mar 18, 2012 8:16 pm
- Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
- Topic: A Relative Newbie Gets a Big Surprise
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3726
Re: A Relative Newbie Gets a Big Surprise
Great to hear! Your experience begs the question, shouldn't we all have a pulse oximeter to, at least occasionally, record an all-night graph of our Sp02? I would think you're hardly unique in going through an extended period of time without our doc ever discovering very unhealthy oxygen saturation...
- Sun Mar 18, 2012 8:06 am
- Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
- Topic: A Relative Newbie Gets a Big Surprise
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3726
Re: A Relative Newbie Gets a Big Surprise
Thank you for the kind words! The second night on O2 was a solid 8 hours of sleep. Me, my CPAP and liquid oxygen. What a combo.
- Sat Mar 17, 2012 5:28 pm
- Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
- Topic: A Relative Newbie Gets a Big Surprise
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3726
A Relative Newbie Gets a Big Surprise
A couple of years ago, I was diagnosed with OSA at the Mayo Clinic's Sleep Clinic, promptly acquired a Resmed S9 Auto and assorted paraphrenalia and headed home to be cheerfully compliant. And I was. I only missed three nights in my first year and I can't even remember how that happened. After a yea...