My main symptoms are getting up 2-3 times a night on average, needing a 1 hour nap during the day or being very tired, often being tired anyway, and zero margin for error. Meaning that if I have a cold for a couple of days, I might have several days of fatigue headaches as I try to catch up. I'm lou...

After failing CPAP therapy 12 years ago, I wanted to try again. After much fuss with doctors and insurance companies, I finally had an in lab study and just got the results today. Moderate apnea on my back, and no apnea at all on my side. "No effective" CPAP levels were found due to frequent "centra...

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What machine exactly do you still have? Brand and model name or number.

Resmed H41

That is a humidifier, not a cpap.

Sorry. Resmed AutoSet II

Do you have any other physical or mental health conditions that could be impacting your sleep? You already mentioned the restless leg issue. Anything else? Not really no. I used to get up once a night because I was thirsty or had to go to the bathroom when I was young, but do not have diabetes or a...

Eleven or twelve years ago, I had an inlab sleep study that found mild to moderate sleep apnea and significant enough restless leg syndrome to warrant treatment. I failed CPAP therapy at that time and gave up. In the last year or so, despite losing weight, I have gone from waking up once a night to ...

No facial hair. I'm pretty sure the dry mouth was waking me up after 1-3 hours so thats the issue I need to solve. Seems to me that whether the mouth breathing impacts therapy is a down the road question? For sure the nasal plug mask (pillows I think?), the style I have now, is going to be better fo...

Thanks very much Pugsy, and also for the suggestion of pushing my PCP Cathyanne. I currently have a Swift LT mask that looks like noseplugs - as I mentioned, best guess is something over 10 years old. Wife points out that I often get up at night to have a drink with dry mouth. I dont have any partic...

I am committed to retrying CPAP therapy. I own a 10ish year old Resmed Autoset II, and one of those nose plug only masks. The machine, mask and tubing are all at least 10 years old. Nothing additional would be covered by insurance because its been so long since I failed therapy. I'd need to go in fo...

Thanks all, I'll buy a topper today. I'll post my equipment model and the problems I had. The first time I tried it, it only made things worse by costing me hours of sleep every night. I learned I need to tape the mask to my face. I learned to sleep a bit with it taped on. But for whatever reason, t...

Hi all, first time poster here. Years ago, when I tried and failed cpap, I was a member of a forum somewhere. Anyway, I have mild sleep apnea. Or at least I did. I need a nap during the day on the weekend, but generally function just fine at work during the week. About 2 weeks ago though, I replaced...