It sounds like your doctors have given you the answer to why you're feeling tired, and not sleeping effectively. Depression is a very serious ailment, which in my case was much more detrimental to my sleeping well than severe sleep apnea ever was. Question is, what are you doing to take care of the ...

As someone who has a beard more often than not, and a mouth breather, leaks tend to be the biggest issue I have with my CPAP therapy. Making things worse, I need an ASV machine due to centrals, and I need fairly high pressure 20plus if I roll over on my back to handle my obstructive apnea's in that ...

As someone who has both PTSD related anxiety, and severe sleep apnea my personal experience is that the anxiety and other mental aspects have more of an impact on how beneficial my sleep is. My sleep apnea was treated prior to my developing PTSD and the resultant severe anxiety. Initial sleep lab re...

I had to go in for an elective surgery a few months back that had been put on hold due to Covid. The plan was to start the surgery laparoscopically initially but it was expected they would have to open me up with a potential stay for up to a week. My CPAP was part of the discussion prior to going in...

Thanks Pugsy, I'm afraid I didn't know anything about hypopneas. When I started on the BIPAP, life was just dealing with tons of apneas, both obstructive and Centrals, the only hypopneas were during sleep transition which the sleep doctor said is normal. After battles with the insurance company, a t...

Thanks Pugsy, As I recall, you played a major role in getting me on a very effective autopilot my first time around. I've switched to Auto ASV and made the other changes you recommended. To the best of my recollection that's what I did before other than I think I had my EPAP min set to 6. The breath...

Back in the 2013 timeframe I became a new member, initially with a Phillips bypap machine and the transitioning to a S9 ResMed VPAP adapt due to being able to get my numbers down especially the central apneas. With the help of this forum, I eventually got my numbers down to under 1 more often than n...

Sleep position can make a huge difference with obstructive apneas. I have very few when sleeping on my side even without my machine. Unfortunately, I periodically get some significant central apnea issues with any sleep positions. If and when I do roll over on to my back I get obstructive apneas bad...

To power my cpap while trailer camping one of the methods I used to use involved a lead acid battery I kept strapped in to the back of the bed of my truck. I made up a harness to connect it to a connector in the front of my trailer that powered an outlet in the bedroom separate from electrical syste...

We travel a lot, be it traveling in the RV or simply cruise ship or motel travel with elevations ranging from slightly below sea level to 10,000 plus foot elevation. I haven't ever noticed any differences in my AHI results as a result of altitude. When not in the RV, sometimes different beds make a ...

I have Complex Apnea.. CPAP and Auto BiPAP wouldn't do it for me so was switched to BiLevel ASV and it is amazing ... It just works while others didn't come close to getting to those centrals. Also regular BiPAP made the AHI through the roof upwards to 50+ a night ... Now I am sitting under 5 most ...

We Boondock a great deal, a little over 6 weeks of dry camping last year. I've used several different setups over the years: I tried a few stand alone batteries and jump start type setups but found they were more trouble than they were worth to me. At best they would only power my machine a night or...

Depression and Anxiety can definitely cause extreme issues with sleep. In my case, I had sleep apnea for at least 30 years prior to getting diagnosed and treated. Even though it was severe, and my oxygen levels were getting quite low I had adapted to it to the point I never realized how much of a pr...

I would do this on occasion at first, but now it's only a rare time or two through the year. The tendency to do this went down with time for me. One time I woke up flat on my back, arm aching from evidently holding it straight out above me for a fair amount of time, mask gripped in my hand. If you d...

Your sleep apnea treatment looks pretty effective to me, but I come here for answers to those questions and am far from being knowledgeable. Through experience though, I do have a lot of experience with different things that affect my sleep quality and how I feel. In your case one of the first thing...