Hi! Firstly can I just express my enormous thanks and appreciation for this forum, I have only been a CPAP user since 23rd Jan, I am still very much 'a beginner'. The advice and help I had at the beginning of my treatment was invaluable, since then (beginning of March) I haven't had a single night a...

To everyone that helped me out on this thread - a huge, huge thank you!!

Since my last post my AHI hasn't been above 1.19 and I'm feeling like a different person.

I'm a CPAP convert

I know I woke up twice and found both times that my full mask had slipped above my mouth with my mouth outside of the mask. This happened to me too and I panicked over large leak results. I followed advice given to me on this forum and changed the size of my mask cushion. I was previously using a s...

yup! i had to ease my minimum pressure up over MONTHS of time in order acclimatize. sometimes, i had to drop back for up to a week before i could try again. not a fun time at all! :lol: :lol: :lol: I can imagine!!! I am so glad it happened on a day I was at home and not at work :lol: :lol: :lol:

Okay...ugly FL graph very possibly can be blamed on the upper respiratory illness (the cold) and we can't really say much about the FL graph until the cold has run its course. I also don't put a whole lot of faith in the AHI when we are ill. Too much chance for SWJ sleep/wake/junk false positives b...

Are you having much nasal congestion? The FL graph is ugly but sometimes nasal congestion causes the ugliness and not airway obstructions. Increased FLs that are from nasal congestion issues won't normally resolve with more pressure....instead you have to fix the nasal congestion by normal nasal co...

Turn ramp off for one thing....your minimum is 4 cm anyway so it is doing nothing but stopping the flagging of some events. You are going to need substantially higher pressure minimums for your machine do be able to do an optimal job and at that time you might have more of a need for utilizing the ...

Rick, as always you are such a help - thank you! I am really lucky to have a very supportive team at the hospital, they are truly fantastic. You're right, I do generally get seen by a lady who then disappears off to talk to senior colleagues! I think you're spot on as well about the majority of even...

Well, they put me straight onto an Autoset! Couldn't ask for better, it was no hassle whatsoever. Probably asking for miracles on night no.1 but I was slightly disappointed by this score. I'm still getting over a nasty chest infection so I was awake coughing for the gap in the night. Around 2:15am w...

So after a couple of nights adjusting to the higher pressure of 14, I was getting the best scores I've ever had - 1's and 2's and feeling INCREDIBLE. Monday - 9.5 Tuesday - 14.9 Wedneday - 36.8 :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: Needless to say I'm off to the drop-in clinic at the hospital toda...

My Fitbit records usually 30-50, which seems high to me. Does this match what you see from your CPAP data? As in, are you getting AHI scores of between 30-50? You might want to post some charts for the experienced members to pop in and take a look. I haven't used my Fitbit since being on CPAP (sinc...

I can't tell you how much I appreciate your replies and such detailed responses. I struggled through a night at 14.. I'm not sure if I put too much pressure (excuse the pun) on myself for it to be a successful night, or whether I was genuinely conscious of it being a higher pressure. My breathing fe...

Then you can adjust the pressure on your own machine. Unfortunately the NHS staff have asked me not to mess with any settings while I'm on this 4 week trial period. I've been in today and they've upped the max pressure to 14 which was a hassle - they class the pressure as a 'prescription' so it had...

I was just wondering because I feel I’ve been denied good sleep for so long that I think I don’t know what good sleep is. I feel like this too!! I'm heading into my fourth week of using my CPAP machine and still tweaking settings to get it right, but it has been life changing. You've come to the ri...

Just wanted to thank everyone for their help on this post. Changing the size of the mask to a medium has been spot on and I would never have considered it without the help of this forum. It really is an absolute God-send for us newbies.