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Thanks for your post - can you clarify if you do not mind - how you know this good news?

Being a 2-time cancer survivor and losing my dad to lung cancer of course this knocked me down. I thought it was saving my life from bad apnea.

What I am looking for now and it changes often - is if there is a machine that does not use chemical foam? The reasoning is Phillips knew and finally broke - and ResMed who I like - researched and they are - while using a different chemical foam is still stuff they know nothing about years down after people have used these to breathe.
I was looking for a machine that someone made and had the sense to say - hey why other than using chemicals and foam to stop noise = why don't we make it thicker or provide a noise suppressor cover? Perhaps we should open a company and make these and say - we use no chemicals - no foam - we bit the cost and make it simply thicker - or notice you have a noise bag to cover your unit with at night for natural sound abatement. Wow-what a concept gees.....

Make sense?
I appreciate your posts - I do.

Many years ago I had a Respironics model CPAP, but I had to get my own S9 and have never looked back since, I got a AirSense 10 auto when I got a new doctor, the breathing algorithm of the ResMed felt so much better to me, even the older S9. It really became a problem when I had to have a token follow up PAP Study a few years back to make my doctor happy so he would let me upgrade to a Bi-Level machine for the higher pressure ceiling, they used a Respironics device in the lab and it was so uncomfortable I barely got any sleep at all.

I would continue to use the PAP you have at the time, and see what you can get ASAP. I too have horrible oxygenation numbers when I go in to REM so I won't sleep with out a PAP ever. My mid 50's was not a good oxygen saturation score to be at for very long. I'll stick with the CPAP.

Best of luck!

Gryphon