Hello, my partner has been using her CPAP for more than a year without any issues but in the past couple of months she has been very tired. It is worth remembering that lots and lots of medical problems include "tiredness" as a symptom. When was the last time your partner had a complete physical? W...

The whole purpose behind a full face mask is to allow the user to breathe through his/her mouth without any loss of pressure. So in principle there's nothing wrong with breathing through your mouth while using a full face mask. There are two caveats however: 1) (The less serious caveat). Mouth breat...

All I want to fix is the daytime sleepiness. Yeah we gotta talk about that. ess.jpg Nocibur, Is that Epworth Sleepiness score something Iancdub88 posted? Because you are right: If that's Iancdub88's Epworth score, there is the question of what Iancdub88 thinks excessive daytime sleepiness involves.

Post the sleep log you're keeping. Also, I apologize, I have been awful about keeping a log. I suggested that you needed to keep a sleep log some months ago back when before you were switched from APAP to the VAUTO machine. I suspected back then that your problem was more bad sleep than anything to...

So perhaps the point of the point (there should be a point, otherwise what's the point)(did you ever notice if you keep repeating them same word over and over, it ceases to make any sense?) is in an attempt to perform Sleep Staging with a breathing waveform (Rechtschaffen and Kales are spinning wil...

1) A nasal rinse? Is that anything like the thing I keep seeing and hearing advertised -- Navage, I think it's called? I've never considered it because (as you say) it sounds pretty disgusting. To be honest, it has always sounded like a con to me, like a hundred other products and treatments that c...

I am just attempting to find out what causes the breathing or physiological disturbance prior to the wake ups. I’m not even sure it is related to sleep breathing or something else. Thanks again for your assessment of the situation. My guess is that if the timing of those wakes is roughly in interva...

One question: Are you using a Remed AirSense or some other machine?

If it's a Resmed, did you make sure to change the "mask type" in the settings when you switched to the FFM? That might be the only thing you need to change.

If you are talking about the arousal that happens after the funky part of the graph, that's easy: Super large leak caused the machine to not be able to track your breathing very well. So it looks like the machine just "gave up" trying to track your breathing. Any chance you've got SmartStart turned ...

...arousals. Point of Order, according to Da Rules, if the sleep disturbance lasts 3-14 seconds, it's an arousal. More than that it's Wake. Thanks Nocibur. Remember: I'm just a silly math professor so I don't know all those official rules (yet). But I do always appreciate it when you do point out s...

I've used SleepHQ before and I didn't notice any function that would tell you if a particular breathing pattern causes an arousal. You got one now. I have no idea what you're trying to say here. I believe Nocibur simply means that if you post some data on Sleep HQ, he and other long term posters ca...

I breathe both ways - nose sometimes, mouth sometimes. I have chronic, untreatable sinus issues -- allergies to multiple things, which would take far more money than I have to figure out. Sounds to me like it would be well worth your time (and a bit of money in the form of co-pays) to figure out if...

I want to file a complaint about this with Aeromexico. I've read a lot of references online about the rules for traveling with CPAP, but I'd like to see the actual regulations. Can anybody point me to the right source? The only thing I could find in a quick search of the official Department of Tran...

Ch1lly. It's midterms week and I'm a college professor. That's why I haven't responded sooner. Hi Robysue, Firstly thank you for taking the time to reply to me, I'm grateful. In terms of pressure I have tried everything from 10-16 (all fixed pressures). I've answered your questions below each one in...

Out of curiosity: Back during the pandemic did wearing a mask when you were out in public bother you in the sense of making you feel like you couldn't breathe right? If so, that was probably caused by some of the same things triggering your problems with trying to breathe normally with the CPAP mas...