Glad you tried a different mask rather than suffer in silence! Your experience is actually like mine, to. Thank you for sharing.

Din

"The Machine they gave me is the Fisher Paykel Icon, it looks nice and I like how small it is. I did a trail with the mask and it was a bit suffocating. I am using a full face mask due to my nose being so plugged up all the time. The doctor didn't recommend a certain kind of mask but she told me tha...

Search this forum for "dry mouth" and you will get lots of info.

I purchased a memory foam firm 3 months ago and agree very restful. Only issue is I feel warmer, so in 25 years when it wears out I'll look for something cooler.

That is why I switched after trying four (4) other masks to the Fischer Paykel Simplus full face mask. The top of my nose was getting chewed up by the strap pressure I had to use to prevent frequent leaking with the Quattro FFM. The seal fits my face better and there is no pressure on my nose or for...

Congratulations on your new knee and your new oxygenated sleep! There is an amazing degree of support and help through this group.

Don

When I first started in September 2013 I had a few nights using a nose-hose that I woke gasping for air through my mouth. I went back to the DMEC provider who looked at the statistics from my first couple of weeks and adjusted up the minimum, but me in a full face mask. That helped but sometimes I s...

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Don

Good job staying with subject. Very valuable! Thank you.

Don

James 64:

If you are a U.S. Veteran, you may be able to get the sleep study through VA.

Don

When I get up during sleep (much less than before APAP) I leave it running so my stats don't stop and start over. I don't download any info but just use the little screen each morning to see my AHI, Periodic % and 95% pressure. But, then I don't have anyone to complain about the noise.

Don

Folks, I didn't see any mention of Post Traumatic Stress (PTS) here. I think we can become too sure everything is sleep related, which night terrors and nightmares certainly can be, but the human brain has various mechanisms to unload emotional trauma. One is to attempt to process trauma via nightma...

Sort of hard to help. Abdominal pain when flying makes me think more of digestive gas that gets trapped as the cabin pressurizes and de-pressurizes, rather than anything CPAP related. Were you using your CPAP on the plane and swallowing air, maybe?

Don

Sounds to me like you have a great attitude, probably a good durable medical equipment (DME) team, and deserve an easy and great start. As to the feeling great all at once, I think it depends on how oxygen deprived you were and for how long. There are a lot of factors that go into feeling totally re...

What about dry mouth only once a week or so? Usually I have plenty of saliva , in fact 2 or 3 times per week I wake with drool in the mask after sleeping on my left side.