Hi Ploppy,

I'm working on your reply.

Hi the masked banker , Well, you've done enough reading to be able to tell the difference between AHI and RDI and you've taken the initiative and found an at-home sleep study supplier in the UK. And that effort and that initiative are to be applauded ... ... but not, I think, with a diagnosis. The c...

Hi half_a_cat , If I may, a word of caution about Ireland – by which I take you to mean the Republic of Ireland, or Eire, and not the bit in the top right corner which is still attached to the UK. A word of caution, and what precautions you can take to anticipate it. Many of those with OSA in Eire h...

Hi Cocka2 , I'll let others continue with the advice on machine pressure setting and OSCAR runes-reading. This is about relocation, in case you haven't been given this info already. I assume your daughter has some form of medical cover – both a family doctor and a dentist – and pays a subscription t...

PS. Headaches and also feeling very tired – even when all your blood tests and system numbers are ok* – may be due to poor daytime breathing habits. Go on-line and check out 'hyper-ventilation syndrome'. The remedy is breathing exercises – to be taught and supervised by a breathing physiologist or s...

Hi Ukbtaylor , You say: "This winter I seem to have been really struggling ... " Have you been turning down your heating because of the horrendous rise in UK fuel bills? The official line on temperatures used to be: 'good for people' equals 20º C (or 68º F). The advice now is that you can make that ...

Hello again Pod153 , "It seems like my arousal threshold is ridiculously, ridiculously low." I have thought that about your case all along. :) And I have had a suggestion waiting in the wings, so to speak, while you've explored the continuous positive airway pressure options. There is a new treatmen...

Hello again, newnew , Next package of info: 7. To treat OSA you need some form of Continuous Positive Airway Pressure (or CPAP) – or Auto-adjusting Positive Airway Pressure (APAP). But you can't just rock up at a machine supplier and buy a machine. It is a classified medical device, and the supplier...

Hi newnew , 1. You don't say whether you are being treated for your sleep apnea by the NHS, or whether you are being treated in the private medicine sector, and this matters in that: (a) with the NHS, the sleep medicine department at the hospital your gp directs you to will issue you with a CPAP/ AP...

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Just to clarify what I'm suggesting. The Velcro patches would, for a good amount of restraint, need to be quite large – at least six inches wide and 8 inches long, in old money. And the best fit, it seems to me, would be on the jasket so that when the jacket is on, the Velcro patches fit over the sh...

Hi Pod153 , I make no case for what is practical and easily do-able in what I'm about to suggest, but there are two anatomical 'levers' which are used to get on to one's side from the back position. The first movement begins in the pelvis and hips. So if someone were to wear 'trouser shape' pyjamas,...

Hello again, Pod153 , I'm sorry to hear of your further troubles with finding masks, but I salute your drive in going to ResMed UK direct for an in-person fitting. You can give yourself a pat on the back. :) Have you, or any of your doctors, considered a tracheostomy? AFAIK, this procedure is briefe...

To Pod153 , If you can breathe something like easily via mouth breathing, but there is increasing resistance/ swelling/ obstruction in the nasal passages after a period of time, then using a nasal mask may be a form of treatment that is now beyond your reach, and you should accept the alternative. I...

To Pod153 , Havening relies on a natural 'mechanism' or response we are all born with. The stroking of the upper arms, from just below the shoulders down to just above the elbow, needs to be both sides and at the same time. When that is done, it sends a set of 'soothing' and slowing impulses into an...