Enh, I'm most concerned about the omega-3 vs. omega-6 distinction, and I feel like the science on that is sound enough for me to pay attention to it. I'm not particularly fussed about some other aspects that people complain about (solvent extraction, whatever), but since I'm already avoiding them to...

Not all fats are created equal. Industrial seed oils (corn, soy, cottonseed, etc.) have a very different effect on the body than the oils in fatty fish like salmon, or the fats in butter from grass-fed cows. Anyone who wants to make fat a large component of their diet for weight-loss purposes has go...

I immediately gained 5 lbs in 2 weeks when I started CPAP -- entirely water weight, as far as I can tell. In the preceding two years, I had had a lot of medical testing done, both for my "mysterious" fatigue (turned out to be common garden variety OSA, but because I'm a skinny woman no one ever thou...

I'm pretty new myself so I have no expert commentary for you, but I can definitely say that you are not the only person with that pattern of long periods of normal breathing and then sudden clusters of frequent apneas. Check out this beauty of a night: http://i.imgur.com/Vfk5Lf2l.png In my case, the...

My husband dug an old receiving blanket out of the closet and keeps it folded up between our pillows on the bed. If my exhaust ends up annoying him during the night, he just covers up his shoulder (or whatever part is getting hit) with the receiving blanket.

I have the same pattern you describe. I don't even know what pressure it would take to keep my airway open on my back -- I've gone as high as 12 but that gives me massive air-swallowing (aerophagia) without solving the problem. So now I sleep with a tennis ball in a sock pinned to my nightgown! Here...

I get similar "one event per minute" clusters when I roll onto my back during REM sleep. You can see a graph of one that I posted in this thread: http://www.cpaptalk.com/viewtopic/t111859/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=111662&p=1072201#p1072201 I definitely try not to sleep on my back, but it sometimes happens...

For the first month, I also kind of wondered if my sleep study had been a fluke, because my AHI's were always below 1.0, and some nights flat out zero! But I was still sleeping sort of lightly because I hadn't yet fully adjusted to the mask. I'm almost two months in now, and now that I don't even no...

Your question made me curious, so I had to experiment... and now I know that it is pretty easy to put an Amara View on and off with one hand! And that's an FFM.

For me, pre-CPAP I was "tired but wired" -- so mentally foggy that I could hardly concentrate, but not falling asleep at my desk or taking naps or any of that. I was also having a lot of problems with anxiety. Once I hit 6-7 hours per night with the CPAP, my mood became markedly calmer, and I sudden...

http://i.imgur.com/nl7hDaWl.png Why yes, I did roll onto my back during REM sleep right at the end there... how did you guess? That happens once or twice a week now that I'm finally relaxed and used to sleeping with the mask -- I guess I should probably bump up my max to deal with that. But what's ...

Helping parents with kids ages 0-5 solve their parenting challenges is my day job, but this particular medical issue is one I've never encountered before! But off the cuff, here are my two top suggestions, one *to* do and one *not* to do. To do: Come up with the most relaxing bedtime routine you can...

Ah, I knew there were different definitions out there, but I didn't know that they could also be defined in sleep studies without an O2 drop. (My sleep study printouts have two checkboxes in the hypopnea section: one says "3% hypopnea rule" and the other says "4% hypopnea rule", and the 4% is checke...

Also, keep in mind that the AHI is made up of both apneas (stopping breathing for at least 10 seconds) and hypopneas (struggling to breathe, to the extent that your blood oxygen level drops by a certain amount). Not that either one of them is good for you, but it might be a bit less scary if you don...

If you're still on the fence, you might want to discuss it with your kidney specialist. Although brief administration of CPAP increases renal resistance in people who don't have apnea (http://ccforum.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/cc304), people who *do* have apnea often have higher renal resist...