Thanks for the good advice Gerald. Uncle Bob, the 'official' line is that CPAP is available on the NHS but availability differs widely throughout the UK depending on where you live and which PCT (Primary Care Trust) serves your needs. My own PCT told me that they have an extremely limited budget for...

Hi Xenablue...Resmed have a monopoly in the UK of all their branded CPAP equipment including machines, masks and pillows. Neither Amazon.uk nor ebay.uk sell them. Gerald...it doesn't make me feel any better because the manufacturing cost for the fx pillows in medical grade soft silicone is around 2 ...

Thanks for your reply Xenablue. Here in the UK we don't have the luxury of CPAP machines supplied on insurance. Even BUPA my private medical insurance supplier will not supply a CPAP machine under insurance. So we have 2 alternatives over here, either wait for weeks or months to get a machine suppli...

I chose my Resmed S9 Autoset with great care, spending days googling all the reviews of various CPAP machines. I visited Resmed's sleep clinic in London and tried on their whole range of masks and eventually decided to purchase from them the S9, humidifier and Swift FX mask. I selected the Swift FX ...

Thanks everybody for your help....I really appreciate you taking time to give me some sound advice.

I wondered if anybody can comment on why I have experienced a sudden increase in my AHI. During a recent sleep study I was diagnosed with OSA with an AHI of 15 with an average of 2 hours sleep a night. Two months ago I started treatment with a Resmed S9 Autoset and Swift FX nasal pillows. The result...