Another one of those things I either never tried or did and shut it off. Don't need anything else trying to wake me up during the night. Yes, I used to think that way too, until I started waking up without the mask and feeling like crap. Doing the "self-programming" trick (ordering myself to look a...

make us feel so grateful, complete and alive because of the WONDERFUL, AMAZING and lovely women that has graced us by sleeping beside us and sharing their hearts and lives with us. Y'know, based purely on that one sentence fragment, I'd (jokingly) bet a new-in-box REMstar Auto that you've never exp...

It's quite simple, really: a negative reaction indicates shallowness far in excess of anything you'd want to deal with any further. Oh, it bothers you? I understand, but I know how to help. If you'll just walk over to that wooden rectangle with the knob sticking out of it about halfway up... yes, th...

A heated humidifier can help stop mouth leaks Please explain why. This is interesting to me because even though I've liked the feeling better without heat I've felt more tired both mornings after not using the heat and noticed last night before falling asleep that my mouth was tending to fall open ...

imsotired, I just said this same thing to you in another thread, but that was before I knew you started a whole other thread about it! So let me say it again: there's nothing wrong with turning the heat off, and it'll probably end your problems with the stuffy/suffocating feelings. It did for me. Ha...

imsotired, stick with it. Five days is NOTHING. The problems will subside with time. You just need to get used to it. I started out with your exact same problems.... but now I've been on CPAP a little over a month, and it's no problem. Just another nighttime ritual. In fact, putting on the mask has ...

I "mouth breathe" the entire night, but then again with my full-face mask, that's never a problem. =) Oh, and I already have wrist splints for my carpal tunnel, but thanks for the suggestion anyway! I tried the mask alert, it was worthless. The "alert" beep is so quiet that I can barely hear it whil...

Before I start, for those of you who don't know what "mask alert" is, it's a feature of some xPAP machines that's supposed to (I haven't tried it yet) awaken you with an alert tone whenever it senses that your mask is off, or that it has a serious leak the machine can't compensate for. You're suppos...

Actually, A Resmed CPAP with EPR is a small Bilevel with max 3 cms seperating the inhale from exhale. [...]mask leaks - on cpap, these are often triggered by that momentary increase in pressure when I sto inhaling & start exhaling - machine trying to pump 15 cms in & me trying to breathe better tha...

I had been running my Bilevels [...] with a gap between Ipap & Epap [...] of 7 CMS. When I finally got a Bilevel that recorded detailed nightly data [...] I discovered my AHI index was higher than when I did my sleep study. I was recording regular AHI of 45-63 !!!. On the advice of some esteemed re...

Darnit, I got logged out. Above post is mine. =) By the way, another question.... does the Hybrid discourage mouthbreathing by holding your mouth mostly closed? The HC431 does this, and it annoys me because I NEED to breathe through my mouth. I have to open my jaw and thus slide the bottom seal furt...

I have been trying the cinnamon caps, the last week, and haven't noticed a difference, I fight bloodsugar levels 24/7. I wish I could control it as easy as my XPAP treatment. XPAP is a breeze compaired to diabetes, pun intended. When I think about food my blood sugar levels rise. Jim My Mom's diabe...

Kathy and others who are diabetic, or pre-diabetic... I read recently of a placebo-controlled study done in Pakistan on, if I remember right, diabetics who weren't being treated for their condition. One group got a placebo, the other got a small amount of cinnamon daily (1 gram, I think?). After awh...

How does the Hybrid compare to the F&P HC431 full-face? I know it might be "apples and oranges" because the 431 isn't a pillow interface, but has anyone tried them both and can compare for me? Thanks. I like the FF mask idea better than the idea of the Hybrid.... one seal to worry about, not essenti...

Will check, Den, thanks. And I'll hold off on my independent purchase of an APAP until I'm sure I "own" the insurance-provided CPAP. Otherwise every night I spend on my self-bought APAP will hurt the compliance data on the insurance-provided CPAP unit, and possibly cause me problems in getting to "k...