Hi, _ Just add my own 6-year experience on PAP's. I have moderated OSA and UARS (typical flat top waveforms, etc). Have gone to brick CPAP (lost my time and money during 1 year), APAP (lost my time and money during 1 month), and then the Bilevel aircurvve since then (overnight rounded wave forms wit...

Hi, Dr. Barry _ good to hear from you downhere; great admiror of your work, book, articles, etc. So grateful! _ I started CPAP some 4 years ago; very minor OSA, and UARS all night, then. RLS also, properly battled these days; _ Now, since some 3 years ago, on BilevelResmed, I think I have suceeded o...

_Thanks for sharing this! I am still waiting, and I would like to hear about good benefiets/cost with these appliances

good luck

Hi, _ just because I was already trying to help you, I am going to post this. I had decided not keep posting here. And, also, I only post on things I am most familiar with (similar to mine) that is, UARS, RLS, CPAP to Autoset to BiPAP, closer look on under-explored OSCAR charts, medications to stabi...

ResMed Airsense 10 w/ AirFit N30i .... went years constantly exhausted...... through the VA (so all my equipment is prescribed to me) ??..... was initially put on a full face mask as I had a history of breathing through my mouth....Even still I could tell a huge difference then before I started tre...

Just downloaded Sleepyhead. So glad I did. Sure gives MUCH more info than the app I got on my phone... Hi, _ I would encourage you don't give up. Maybe so many basic things to go through yet, in my modest opinion; _ You have just taken the first step on getting proper data. Very curious to see them...

When Using OSCAR How Can you Tell When Your Sleeping? How do you know when your in REM sleep and for how long? How do you tell the stages of sleep from the chart? I guess I need to understand more than just pressures and time. Hi, _ such a good question! Let me share my experience; _ I think I have...

Hi, _ Pugsy, interesting points on the centrals and REM stages; _ actually, waking up just following REM stages is one of my residual problems after my 22 months of therapy and so many adjustments. Sometimes I am able to complete the stage, sometimes not, quite often truncated in the midle, somewher...

Yesterday was the first night that I used the soft collar, in addition to taping my mouth which I have been doing for about 3 weeks now. It's interesting that my AHI dropped down to almost a zero. I had one central and one obstructive-however the obstructive happened as I was awake, so I am discoun...

Hi, _ good question! _ I am afraid, I cannot even imagine going through all this without daily data observations and analyses. I am completing some 3.0 years on PAP's, since this thing, kind of saved my life. Initially, on blind brick CPAP I waisted a quite long while on my therapy. _Today, it is my...

Can you share more info on how you got away from mouth-breathing? Things are going much better with the F20 + collar -- I'm consistently getting 4+ hours a night with the mask on. But I notice when I wake up that I have switched to mouth breathing. Hi, _ well, indeed, for a quite sometime now, I co...

Hi, thanks Michezaji (male or female? I am afraid, I may have missed..) _ I am afraid your case comes with some complexity, indeed. I would have to count on other opinions, trying to narrow down something. Let us refresh and see if we could conclude something up to here: _ Pugsy, with all her experi...

Hi, Nevergiveup _ that's interesting what you have experiencing. No surprise for me, you felt much better on the Benzo; _ I had a 40-year-not continuous experience with Benzo's (in particular, Clonazepam 0.5mg; first, without PAP for much longer period, then, Clonazepam + PAP for some 2.0years); not...

My ResMed Autoset is about 5 yrs old. Any news or rumours of a new updated model in the near future? Hi, _ good question; _ I would take advantage and poll this, just as curiosity after observations on some one hundred cases: does anybody succeed, ever, on treating properly UARS (I roughly estimate...

Is there a connection between sleep apnea and acid reflux? Does one cause the other or worsen the other? If so, how? Hi, _ in accordance with the ENT, Dr. Steven Park (his book Sleep Interrupted and blogs, etc), definitively there would be connections between UARS and reflux, actually, it would be ...