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- Sat Mar 23, 2024 7:42 pm
- Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
- Topic: First month on CPAP and could use some help with dialing in my pressure and settings
- Replies: 27
- Views: 8764
Re: First month on CPAP and could use some help with dialing in my pressure and settings
About dizziness: I learned by experience that there can be significant benefits from vestibular physical therapy.
- Fri Mar 22, 2024 12:30 pm
- Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
- Topic: RemStar 560p APAP vs BiPAP
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2423
Re: RemStar 560p APAP vs BiPAP
The ST machine has been recalled, and in any case, an ST machine is a very different beast from your PAP machine. (I'm not sure, but I think your current machine has been recalled too, if it's a REMstar machine.) https://www.fda.gov/medical-devices/respiratory-devices/recalled-philips-ventilators-bi...
- Thu Mar 21, 2024 11:16 pm
- Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
- Topic: Wanna sleep with me?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1646
- Thu Mar 21, 2024 11:14 pm
- Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
- Topic: Apnea Events Still High After Titration Study Help Needed Lowering Events
- Replies: 7
- Views: 956
Re: Apnea Events Still High After Titration Study Help Needed Lowering Events
Yes. Thanks for the clarification.ozij wrote: ↑Thu Mar 21, 2024 9:46 pmBy "original" do you mean a sleep study other than the titration study?Miss Emerita wrote: ↑Thu Mar 21, 2024 2:56 pmTo follow up on ozij's post, it would be helpful in particular to know the central apnea index from your original sleep study.
- Thu Mar 21, 2024 4:49 pm
- Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
- Topic: Wanna sleep with me?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1646
Re: Wanna sleep with me?
Too funny! Is this by any chance from Nicole Tersigni's The Art of Mansplaining: Men to Avoid in Art and Life?
- Thu Mar 21, 2024 2:56 pm
- Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
- Topic: Apnea Events Still High After Titration Study Help Needed Lowering Events
- Replies: 7
- Views: 956
Re: Apnea Events Still High After Titration Study Help Needed Lowering Events
To follow up on ozij's post, it would be helpful in particular to know the central apnea index from your original sleep study.
- Thu Mar 21, 2024 11:35 am
- Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
- Topic: Apnea Events Still High After Titration Study Help Needed Lowering Events
- Replies: 7
- Views: 956
Re: Apnea Events Still High After Titration Study Help Needed Lowering Events
Thanks for posting the titration-study report and the Oscar charts. In your original sleep study, what was the break-down of your AHI (obstructive apnea, central apnea, hypopnea)?
- Thu Mar 21, 2024 11:30 am
- Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
- Topic: Elevated AHI reading while trying to fall asleep
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1258
Re: Elevated AHI reading while trying to fall asleep
What Zonker said. Asleep breathing is much more regular than awake breathing. We often pause our breathing when we're awake; any pause of 10 seconds or more will be identified by the machine as a central apnea.
- Thu Mar 21, 2024 11:27 am
- Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
- Topic: getting healthy
- Replies: 3
- Views: 928
- Wed Mar 20, 2024 4:08 pm
- Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
- Topic: Blowing my own trumpet...AHI -low events achievement
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1029
Re: Blowing my own trumpet...AHI -low events achievement
Excellent result! I agree with Okie B. -- just getting under 5 isn't good enough. But under 1 is terrific!
- Wed Mar 20, 2024 4:05 pm
- Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
- Topic: getting healthy
- Replies: 3
- Views: 928
Re: getting healthy
Welcome! A couple of thoughts about your question. You're going to want to treat your sleep apnea even if it has no effect at all on your mental state. Chronic apnea can increase your risks of several serious physical diseases. Many people without your diagnoses find that once their apnea is well tr...
- Tue Mar 19, 2024 11:29 am
- Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
- Topic: Reliable sources for used CPAP?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1505
Re: Reliable sources for used CPAP?
About member LSAT: I got my machine from him, and everything went completely smoothly.
- Mon Mar 18, 2024 11:40 am
- Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
- Topic: Help analyzing Oscar waveforms
- Replies: 12
- Views: 6717
Re: Help analyzing Oscar waveforms
The resolution of the image isn't great, but from what I can see these look fine. What is it about them that concerns you?
- Sun Mar 17, 2024 6:58 pm
- Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
- Topic: DeVilbiss stops making sleep apnea devices
- Replies: 16
- Views: 4698
Re: DeVilbiss stops making sleep apnea devices
Many thanks for pasting in the article. I should be beyond being shocked by this kind of corporate behavior, but I’m not. Just awful.
- Sun Mar 17, 2024 11:35 am
- Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
- Topic: On BiPAP for almost 3 weeks, but still sleeping 11-12 hours a day?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3126
Re: On BiPAP for almost 3 weeks, but still sleeping 11-12 hours a day?
This is excellent news! Many thanks for coming back to tell us how you're doing.