You know, I am thinking about this. If the Supplier is having me sign a contract with them, then my Advantage plan DOES NOT HAVE A BINDING CONTRACT. This also means that the parties have to negotiate as they can not make me sign a boiler plate, because that boiler plate must have been negotiated by ...

All my med programs have been advantage plans. The first machine about 2 years, but I was told that was lease only, never to become personal equipment. The second is now 10 months or so but I changed plans. I still have that machine. It has been 3 months since I changed plans and am just now getting...

I have changed Advantage plans. Each time I have changed, I have to return my old machine and the new provider sends a new machine (kind of wasteful to begin with). This time a company called ROTECH is involved. They sent me documents to sign and return in order to process the Doctors Rx. I am sched...

Looked up Geraldine Largay. Terrible that she lost her way so close to the trail. A compass and knowing how to use it can be very important. She did the right thing though hunkering down and waiting if she felt truly lost. The better odds did not pan out. Luckily I have years of packing and hunting ...

Hi Chicago Granny! Long time, and to others thanks for responding, My Resmed settings are currently 8.2 -13.4. My machine rarely if ever exceeds 10.2, generally that would be when awakening in the morning for some reason (after REM). Some nights when I fall asleep very quickly and forget to put on t...

robysue1 I found this for downloading Fitbit data. Not sure how well it works though. Hope it helps. It may require an update of your device? https://help.fitbit.com/articles/en_US/Help_article/1133.htm When I talked to my doctor about hiking without PAP and ask him how serious that would be his ans...

Ok all, here we go. I was originally diagnosed with AHI 29.5. had a very hard time fitting a mask. I now have a mask that works well even though it seem to leak more than desirable. I have titrated my treatment using 95% threshold and and the system is working. My AHI is reduced to less than ONE cur...

Update and QUESTION: IT seems as if my AHI is doing very well. High nights are 2 or less and low nights are .5ish (1.25 average). I had one night with ZERO also I noticed that particular night I had NO leaks above 20L! I think I understand why: I noticed that my pressures are becoming very consisten...

I have checked both ways, with and without tape. It does not seem to matter. IN fact two nights in a row my chart looked identical, with and without tape except the max pressure was different by .2. Tonight I will try tape on my skin at the mask seal again along with tape on lips and see what happen...

This is getting interesting at least. Even though I have HUGE leaks this mask seems like it it making me feel better, the sound of the leak doesn't wake me up as much. One can easily see that I have leaks about 50%of the night. If the machine is reading my AHI correctly then the efficacy is there. G...

Ok, I have stopped using the tape and have been adjusting the mask. Started rather loose then began tightening 1/8 inch a night. I move a lot in my sleep and this mask seems to leak every time I move. I also noticed that the material stretches somewhat, this means that at a certain point the materia...

Second night on WISP. I taped my mouth for most of the night. Notice the leaks? I had a better nights sleep but woke up a lot from the new mask and tape. Feel better overall but a little tired because of waking. Notice that with the Wisp the pressure seems to be effective at a 2cm lower than with a ...

Ok, I took the week off. Had really bad sleep a couple nights. Felt tired all day a couple days. Had to take 3 naps Sunday after sleeping a full night even though I didn't feel awful I was tired. SO...now that I have opened Pandora's box I have to move forward I guess. Monday, Called DME, needed new...

I have been looking at the stats and find no direct correlation between AHI, Flow limit, Leak rate, large leak and total time in apnea, except when all are above average they sometimes correlate loosely. Sometimes total time in apnea and AHI have no relationship to the others at all. Interesting in ...

I looked up the references, and might agree except that the software is actually counting these "double breaths" as full breaths at double the number per unit time. This was taken from last night and looks like this may be "normal" for me in a high breath rate that does not hyperventilate? I guess t...