Where did all the help GO??

[racprops]

Sadly sleeping on my side causes tons of pain, my arm and shoulder is in pain and so was my incision from my heart surgery, and even my bad back got into the act. This pain would wake me and drive me from the bed in about a hour...

And as I will turn over onto my back in my sleep I defeat everything then.

I know it is upsetting to me too.

Rich

From looking at your previous post why dont you sleep on your side since it shows a very good outcome

[racprops]

We got a wedge and it does not get me high enough to give me good sleep.

I need to be almost sitting upright to stop the apneas.

I am hoping I can slowly lower my sleeping position and regain sleeping in a raised bed.

I even looked at one of the powered beds but a queen raised to the position I need left no support for a pillow...

So until I can work my way down I am stuck in the recliner.

Rich

If you sleep well in your recliner, I would suggest you raise the head of your bed to keep the head of the bed higher about 6 inches when you go back to it. I have mine on a couple of 2x4's and use a high pillow to keep the head of the bed higher. I tried books and bricks but settled on the 2x4's.

[sleepinow]

When sleeping on your side you said you have pain? Will this pain go away with time or was this something that you had to deal with for quite some time

And yeah do what you can to keep bringing your AHI down. You will not regret it

[racprops]

The problem with pain when sleeping on my side bugs me to no end.

I have been sleeping on my left side for the past two decades, and one would think I was very well adjusted to doing so, but over the past couple of years the shoulder pain started and slowly got worst.

Then my hip and back got into the action.

I can only guess my body is tiring of this position and parts are wearing...

Now I also have the incision from my heart surgery which does not like the compression of sleeping on my side so it is a lost cause...

Rich

When sleeping on your side you said you have pain? Will this pain go away with time or was this something that you had to deal with for quite some time

And yeah do what you can to keep bringing your AHI down. You will not regret it

[sleepinow]

Ouch, do you think you may at a later time sleep on your other side?

I guess the recliner is very good for you, but I want to to receive the best treatment possible. Hopefully in the near future you CAN sleep on your side.

[JohnBFisher]

Just as a note for racprops ...

Sometimes you need to get the restorative deep sleep to overcome pain issues. So, it's possible that as you adjust to ASV therapy you will attain better sleep and thus be better able to sleep on your bed and/or on your side. Of course, it's also possible that you are dealing with some arthritis, which won't be so readily addressed. But even with that good sleep makes a huge difference.

So, here's hoping that you will start to see more frequent and deeper sleep sessions. May the healing begin! (Isn't that what we all want for ourselves and each other??!!)

[racprops]

I AM BACK.

Due to a computer melt down I had to reinstall Win 7.

I lost all my passwords.

It took me days to get the "I forgot my password" feature to work. It needs fixing...

And there seems to be no way to contact anyone when your not logged in.

Anyway check out my new thread "Positional Apneas"

viewtopic/t89838/Positional-Apneas.html

Rich

[JohnBFisher]

... Due to a computer melt down I had to reinstall Win 7. ...

Bummer! But don't get me started on what I really think about Windows. It's an OS that *SHOULD* have been much more stable. It's based on several OSes that remain more stable than Windows. Unfortunately, the developers of Windows thought they knew more about the industry than folks who'ld made a living at it for years. And by deciding they knew better they threw away the chance to learn from the experiences of others. Stupid. Plain and simple. Just downright stupid!!

[chunkyfrog]

I am forced to use windows explorer at work, but had been using Firedfox at home until everything went to hell a few days ago.
Whatever they did, I hate it!
Now I am learning Navigator. I'm too old for this stuff!

[squid13]

using Firedfox at home until everything went to hell a few days ago

I've been using Firefox since it first started years ago. I use Mozbackup to make a backup of my firefox before I install the new version. If the new version is bad , I can always go back to the old one.

[NateS]

I am both a Mac and a Windows user, so I am not picking on anybody when I ask: Why is it that Windows users seem to have so much trouble making complete and incremental backups of their computers that they neglect to do it?

Is it because Bill Gates was so paranoid about and/or plagued by piracy that the Windows system creates so many barriers to creating a good backup habit?

On the Mac side, I always have good stable backup programs that maintain complete backups at all times. They run on their own with no problems.

Yet, on the Windows side, the backup programs all seem to want to back up only data and not the complete hard disk including all pieces of the operating system. The only one I've tried that claims to duplicate the entire hard disk and Windows system files is Acronis, and I don't have complete confidence even in their claims.

Puzzled, Nate

[racprops]

Computers....

To ear is human...we make small mistakes, BUT to totally mess things up use a computer...

I bought a unknown brand mother board by Foxconn, reviews seemed good.

I have long learned to not buy PC Chips boards, ECS Boards, and kind of avoid Intel as being too simple...(you can't change of fix anything...)

And I kind fell out with Gigabyte (odd start ups..long belays before BIOs) and MSI because one when bad with its IDE chip and the replacement was bad as well.

I should and was kind of warned when the internet connection dropped out after a couple of months and I gave up trying to fix it and put in a NIC Card instead.

Last month I lost a hard drive, it lost the table for the file system and is unreadable by Windows, a common problem with external drives that people for get to reject correcty..BUT mine was hard wired in and not unplugged for any reason.. I now thing the IDE/SATA cchip on the board was dropping it from time to time adn that acted like a incorrect disconnection...

Before I could repair it I started having trouble booting the system on another drive the main one with the OS.

So I start building a third drive again first thinking it was just old..

But after a week IT begain to have trouble booting...

SO three hard drives haing problems with their partition table is too much and As I troubshot this I had a time with getting any drive to boot ..

SO I am hanging on as I wait for a ASUS Board to replace this.

I also ran into this tip bit: By default, SATA is set to IDE mode. But for SATA HDDs, Onchip SATA Type should be set to AHCI mode. It is in the BIOS under Integrated Peripherals->IDE Configuration. Also CAT 13.4 should have the latest AMD AHCI driver.

Interesting...I will make sure I am running AHCI mode on the new motherboard.

Rich

[StuUnderPressure]

Why is it that Windows users seem to have so much trouble making complete and incremental backups of their computers that they neglect to do it?

I do "image" backups using Norton Ghost.

I can image the entire hard drive, including the operating system, etc. or I can do incremental images.

I almost always image the entire hard drive each time (because I have the space & it does not take that much time) to an external hard drive that I then keep in a separate location.

I do the above to both my Windows business system at my office & to my Windows personal system at home on a regular basis - simply because I canNOT afford to lose vital information on either system.

Of course, I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night!

[racprops]

You hit the nail on the head dead center.

Win 98 and SE no problem using drive image..

Windows XP same thing..

Never used Visa or MS so can't say.

Windows 7 total major problem.

Most back up software here in the US gone...Drive image gone.

The major problem is correctly backing up the BOOT section of the drive, without it you cannot reinstall and have a running system.

The new backup software will not work on Win 98 either..and all are from out of this country.

I went though a lot of them and wish I could tell you the one I got working but until I can access my old hard drives (2) I cannot say which one seems to work.

I am fairly sure Acronis failed, so it seems to be either Easeus or R-Driveimage and I think it is R-Driveimage...and with it you have to take extra care to include the Boot Partition with the main system Partition to get a re installable system.

But by the time I got hints I was starting to have problems too much time and too much installs had gone by...and I had too much junk, programs I had tried and do not love and some that even when you uninstall never really totally clean out..so a fresh start seemed a right idea.

Rich

I am both a Mac and a Windows user, so I am not picking on anybody when I ask: Why is it that Windows users seem to have so much trouble making complete and incremental backups of their computers that they neglect to do it?

Is it because Bill Gates was so paranoid about and/or plagued by piracy that the Windows system creates so many barriers to creating a good backup habit?

On the Mac side, I always have good stable backup programs that maintain complete backups at all times. They run on their own with no problems.

Yet, on the Windows side, the backup programs all seem to want to back up only data and not the complete hard disk including all pieces of the operating system. The only one I've tried that claims to duplicate the entire hard disk and Windows system files is Acronis, and I don't have complete confidence even in their claims.

Puzzled, Nate

[racprops]

I use many partitions and many hard drives so I have TONS of back ups...

I cannot remember why I hated Ghost, perhaps it was how it automatic backed up every day and stated taking over my hard drives much as does win. 7 does, I turn off Win7's back ups or don't ever turn them on...what a hard drive eater they can become...

I was just getting ready to try and recover my data when the new drive started going bad so have not done any more.

Rich

Why is it that Windows users seem to have so much trouble making complete and incremental backups of their computers that they neglect to do it?

I do "image" backups using Norton Ghost.

I can image the entire hard drive, including the operating system, etc. or I can do incremental images.

I almost always image the entire hard drive each time (because I have the space & it does not take that much time) to an external hard drive that I then keep in a separate location.

I do the above to both my Windows business system at my office & to my Windows personal system at home on a regular basis - simply because I canNOT afford to lose vital information on either system.

Of course, I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night!