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I just discovered that LL did a new aerophagia video a couple of months ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdzKaB-ixxM

archangle wrote:There's a youtube video in the links in my signature line for a trick to help prevent aerophagia. Some people find it helps.

I saw that before and it works. However, most of the time I can't keep my chin tucked down to my chest

Pugsy, I had a great AHI again with the setting set to 10 min and 10 max, with a flex turned on to three. I had minimal gas. I still woke up and ton and I feel extremely tired today... or I did till I drank some coffee and took some modafinil.

I called my sleep dr. I can't get in until January. He told the nurse assistant that apap's don't accurately measure AHI. Have you ever heard of this?

Regardless, I keep the settings you suggested for awhile and see if things improve.

araris wrote:I still woke up and ton and I feel extremely tired today.

How much is a "ton" and how many hours of sleep did you get?
We aren't going to feel so great when we wake up a "ton".
Have you investigated the half life for the modafinil?

araris wrote:He told the nurse assistant that apap's don't accurately measure AHI. Have you ever heard of this?

Heard of it as in true or heard of it as the doctor just trying to pooh pooh off the data from the reports?
If it wasn't true do you think that so many docs and sleep clinics would be sending people home with apap machines to do home titration?

A nice low AHI doesn't guarantee that all the problems are solved and we will feel great though. Wish it were that easy.

This may be a noob question but... How old is your mattress? If your numbers look good, maybe it could be a mattress issue?

I know I sleep like crap on a bad mattress! lol

Pugsy wrote:

araris wrote:I still woke up and ton and I feel extremely tired today.

How much is a "ton" and how many hours of sleep did you get?

I know if I don't sleep well, I feel like gravity is dragggggging harder on me the next day, but I never figured out the extra weight!

Pugsy wrote:

araris wrote:I still woke up and ton and I feel extremely tired today.

How much is a "ton" and how many hours of sleep did you get?
We aren't going to feel so great when we wake up a "ton".
Have you investigated the half life for the modafinil?

araris wrote:He told the nurse assistant that apap's don't accurately measure AHI. Have you ever heard of this?

Heard of it as in true or heard of it as the doctor just trying to pooh pooh off the data from the reports?
If it wasn't true do you think that so many docs and sleep clinics would be sending people home with apap machines to do home titration?

A nice low AHI doesn't guarantee that all the problems are solved and we will feel great though. Wish it were that easy.

I have a tendency to exaggerate when I dont sleep well but 20-30 times maybe. Last night I had the machine on for 8.5 hours. I didn't sleep that long
That's what his nurse told that he said apaps don't record ahi accurately.
Modafinil has a 12 hour half life. However I only get 3-4 hours out of it now before I could take a nap. If I take it I always take in the morning

Bignate76 wrote:This may be a noob question but... How old is your mattress? If your numbers look good, maybe it could be a mattress issue?

I know I sleep like crap on a bad mattress! lol

It's a queen that I share with my girlfriend. It's a little less than a year old.

Would love to have a memory foam king but can't afford it on a teachers salary.