It took about a week for me. I had been feeling terrible for 9 months with a CPAP and then BiPAP, then the ASV. I was titrated by Krakow as well.

I have UARS. It has been shown with CT scan that I have an extremely small throat, which may explain the chronic fatigue-type events that I have experienced many times in the past. I don't do well with a CPAP or BiPAP. I tried for 8 months, but get complex apneas, periodic breathing, etc., and feel ...

I've read about someone's positive experience with this surgeon in Keene, NH:
http://www.drhenrydds.com/

If you want to learn about jaw surgery, you are better off searching for jaw surgery forums and blogs.

I find myself in the ridiculous position of being billed for as ASV machine that was already paid off on a 10-month lease in 2012. It was due to be converted to a warranty & service agreement in 2013, with some type of payment every 6 months. Why do they want to charge all over again? The alleged re...

We had his tonsils out and have him in braces to extend his jaw What kind of braces are those? I'm interested for my kid. Sleeping Ugly, have you tried googling on orthotropics? Also google on Dr. Mew. I learned quite a bit about it from Dr. Park's teleseminar interviews. He hosted one or two exper...

I would add the following: if you do have an MMA, it's vitally important that you have it done by an experienced doctor. There are MMA horror stories out there, but none of them are from people who had their surgeries performed by the Stanford doctors. This is one area in which you definitely don't...

No, it's not. I would expect some significant improvement but not a cure, unless someone experienced looks at your airway and says "It's definitely small only in the direction that MMA expands it". If ASV is able to bring your RERAs close to zero, then it doesn't seem like MMA would give much benef...

ENTs are not the ones that should be diagnosing GERD; gastroenterologists diagnose GERD. Are you an authority on that? I don't pretend to be, but it would make sense that gastros are the ones who can best treat primary GERD, with drugs and diet and such. It was my sleep doc who specifically recomme...

Is it possible you got an injection in the rear end? I had demoral that way before surgery back in the 70's. I can't remember if it made my butt sore; but it did make me high as a kite. I don't know if that is standard practice anymore, but it was nice at the time.

patrissimo, I have your type of history with a UARS hyped-up nervous system. I didn't do well at all with my first mask, the Resmed FX. I was new to CPAP and didn't know the difference, but the nose pillows were constraining my breathing. It got worse later at night after being in bed for a while. S...

Has anyone using nose pillows ever gotten irritated eyes from their therapy? Once while at the DME, the respiratory tech mentioned that the eye ducts can leak air out under really high pressures, thus explaining the full-face and over-the-eye(!) huge sized mask in his office. Is it possible that I a...

Patrissimo - If you are still following this thread, thank you for your thoughtful comments back in December. When I'm in a holding pattern on my therapy, I'm not too consistent at checking in on this forum. It tends to keep me up too late at night After 4 weeks, ASV has improved my daytime energy a...

You might try to find a doctor who is experienced in treating UARS. Such a doctor would notice the funky airflow waveforms and frequent arousals, and take that situation seriously. I had trouble locating that type of expert, though. It doesn't seem to be mainstream(?) I had AHI scores similar to you...

I can share the input of my ENT on this topic. Background: I have problems with aerophagia ever since starting on CPAP, then again with BiPAP (although marginally better than CPAP), and now ASV. The higher the pressure, the worse my gas symtoms. The ASV max setting is the highest pressure I've been ...

An update... After about 10 weeks on the S9 VPAP I did not improve, either in data or subjective results. Last week I was titrated for ASV. As of last night I started new therapy at home with an S9 VPAP Adapt. This morning my AHI was zero(!), so even though the breathing waveforms look a bit funky a...