Does CPAP Therapy Eliminate Snoring ?

My daughter came home about 2:00 the other night and said the house was "really creepy" because it was so quiet, and both my husband and I were sleeping. I asked her why, and she said "because you're not making noises any more." I also have been known to wake (and keep awake) guests sleeping downstairs. My husband is now one happy camper (and he's half deaf..seriously) because I don't make any more noise, don't kick, and our covers actually stay on the bed at night. We gave up using a top sheet years ago because the bed would be so torn apart it was usually on the floor in the morning, and we could never figure out why. Must have been me..

I still have a lot of VS, and it is reported that sometimes I sort of "buzz" in my mask, but usually only as I'm waking up in the morning. Asked the doctor about it a couple of weeks ago, and he told me that should resolve itself by raising my pressure a bit, so I'm working on that.

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Still snoring sometimes but not as often, after CPAP. Kind of a bummer because my
assumption was th'at xPAP would eliminate snoring. Oh well.

Of course, an other assumption I had would be that I would feel better, not worse.

Hmmm. before CPAP - snoring heavily, tired during the day, moderately functional

During CPAP - snoring less, but _more_ tired during the day, can't concentrate at all, headaches, ear-aches,
can't get out of bed in the morning, grumpy, cranky, loss of memory.

Switching DME's at the moment of course, but just posting this as a word of caution - OSA is the "in" dx today. You don't have to google to far to log into the industry sites. I actually encourage everyone who is dealing with a DME to do this. Find out what the medicare code is for CPAP, I think it's E0601, but I'm
probably wrong. Add terms like "reimbursement", "capped rental", or the like. Then you will have access to the "inside".

At least half of the articles are about the business aspect of things (how to get around certain insurance codes, how to know if your lawyer is good, how to increase profits, how to create business partnerships legally..). I don't blame these guys. These are companies that want to stay profitable, and any company in good conscience will of course will do its best to make as much money as they can, to in turn reward their empolyees with decent salaries.

The funniest thing I found so far, is there is some sort of award given out by some company per year that will rate a company, say as, best respiratory provider for 2009, e.g. Then you go on the home site of the company, and you learn that the criteria has nothing to do with how satistfied the customer is - it's more like how much did the company grow, what is their profit margin, and the like

It's all PR. The domain of the business I work for is similar. It is niche. There is an organization that gives awards yearly. In reality what it amounts to is
that they randomly pick from the small group of providers in our industrial niche, and pick one that hasn't been picked recently, as long as their not murdering their employees and harvest their bones for raw material for their product.

So it's more of a "club" insider award, than an actual award based on merit.

It's kind of shocking.

I mean, I always knew that if I went into a car dealership in the US, to avoid the desk that had the "best salesman of the year" plaque.
That is only common sense. Naturally the "best salesman" is the one I most definitely want to stay clear from, as a consumer.

But apparently this happens in the medical industry as well.

I stopped snoring when I went on CPAP about five years ago. That alone is enough to keep me 100% compliant.

My husband snored so loud he used to wake me up each and every night. Now that he is on cpap - a mirage quatro and 9cm of pressure there is no snoring (as long as his mask is sealed well). Good news: We are both sleeping soundly now! No more waking up due to his very loud snoring!