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by bigfrank99
Mon Oct 29, 2018 4:54 pm
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: Bumped up pressure after 2 years
Replies: 3
Views: 1809

Bumped up pressure after 2 years

I'm 67 years old and have been on cpap for more than 3 years. I struggle with insomnia also. One week ago my condition started to get worse until 2 days ago when I was so severely sleep deprived that I could not function and started to slip into a depression. Bumped my pressure from 11.0 to 13.0. As...
by bigfrank99
Sat Nov 08, 2014 9:10 am
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: Deviated Septum/Bone Spur Surgery, Snoring and BiPap
Replies: 7
Views: 2234

Re: Deviated Septum/Bone Spur Surgery, Snoring and BiPap

Five years ago I was first diagnosed with osa 57 hypopneas I had septoplasty and tuberation (sp) . I must have been part of the 15% of the people who have this done that did not need cpap anymore. Six months ago osa came back and now am on cpap. The operation allows me to use nasal mask instead of f...
by bigfrank99
Tue Sep 30, 2014 3:40 am
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: Surgery
Replies: 34
Views: 5024

Re: Surgery

Five years ago I was diagnosed with osa . I had septoplasy and tuberation. I must have been 1 of the 15% of patients that this procedure affected my osa symptoms to the point that I never used cpap and felted fine. About 5 months ago my osa returned and I am on cpap for the last month. It's hard to ...
by bigfrank99
Sat Aug 23, 2014 6:15 am
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: First night user-question on info
Replies: 1
Views: 438

First night user-question on info

First night last night. Checked info this mourning and saw that machine time = 7.0 hrs,blower time = 7.0 hrs,therapy = 1.42 hrs ???? is therapy time the time I was asleep and using cpap or time I was asleep or awake and using time...is this before midnight as a "day". Days >4.0 = 0 because of that. ...