From Resmed to Kaerys

Hello to all,

A long time since I have posted on this web site. Just wanted to share with you my CPAP experience.

In November 2007, I have started to use a Resmed machine S8.

In the first months, I felt some improvements, but not so much. I was able to spend the whole night with the mask though.
I started to post on this forum, and I got the advises to adapt the pressures (which the technician did not do).

I managed to improve how I felt, by setting the pressure to Min 8 and Max 20.
After this setting, in the morning I was feeling sometimes better, and sometimes quite bad (half / half), but it was an improvement.

I received the advise to monitor my nights using "Resscan" software. I managed to have a friend of mine bring one back from the US (not possible to get one from France).
After 6 months of sw monitoring, I found out (and was able to demonstrate it to the sleep doctor) that the Resmed machine was not reacting to apneas which occur when the CPAP pressure is above 10. I understand that this is to avoid to trigger central apneas.
But the analysis of my sleep showed that the resmed establishes at a pressure of 10 to 11 for the whole night, and when apneas occur, the machine does not react at all. And I could have 10 apnea on one hour time frame with the Resmed pressure at 10 to 11.

The doctor, based on this analysis, decided to change the machine, and I am now using a Kaerys machine (http://www.kaerys.com/).
The settings are Min 8, Max 16, no more limitations of pressure to react to apnea, and there is a "Bump" feature, which helps removing the apnea.

I feel much better with this machine, much more stable quality of sleep than with the Resmed.

I still have some bad nights, even I spend 100% of my time with the mask, and I intend now to search in the direction of central apnea.

I hope my experience will help other people.

Best regards,

Pierre

Thanks for sharing, Pierre. You can even download the software from the website. A link to the download site is provided. Dang the FDA!!!

That is a cool looking little machine. I wish I could read French. How much do they cost over there?

Slinky wrote:Thanks for sharing, Pierre. You can even download the software from the website. A link to the download site is provided. Dang the FDA!!!

SW is free to download, but the interface cable is very specific and can't be purchased anywhere...

Based on this Australian site
http://cpapaust.com/machines.htm
they are about the same price as the Goodknight 420E in Australia