I worked my way through pugsys pointers whe i was installing it. Although windows 10 might be different beast! http://www.cpaptalk.com/viewtopic/t88983/Pugsys-PointersSleepyHead-Tutorial-and-TX-Hints.html As to whether your Dr will explain anything to you... only if you are lucky. It helps to know t...

It's true that Dr Google is worse than most real drs.... but most real gps or the consultants I have met are not well trained in the conditions me and my family deal with - if they have even heard of them before - and it's not like they are rare. My partners mum could get an honorary degree for her ...

I trust my gp (and most of the drs and nurses at my practice). I trusted my other half's gp before he moved, currently I love his consultant - we havent got to know the gp. I would still always do my own research though - too much experience with drs from the personality lacking to the malpractice l...

I switched on to apap (with data) from cpap (no data,so couldn't really self manage) - and now have no wind problems. In the mean time, I found that not eating or even drinking water 3 hours before bed really helped, as did staying on my left hand side. Changing setting may help too, although you re...

my clinic sees you once every two years if treatment appears to be working. if you have sleep apnoea, you need to become the expert patient and manage your own condition - step one: education. step two: sleepyhead.

Don't use something like vaseline as the petroleum doesn't react well with cpap and can make u bill, some kind of pneumonia. What are you trying to say? It's true that petroleum based products, which include plain old ChapStick, can degrade the silicone in the masks a bit quicker. But I know of no ...

Do you have a humidifier? What mask do you use? It could be mouth breathing drying you out. Don't use something like vaseline as the petroleum doesn't react well with cpap and can make u bill, some kind of pneumonia. But once you get up lip salve will be goodn- baseline isn't actually that good anyw...

I think it's more nicely you were diagnosed correctly, and have been lucky to start treatment That is very effective, and that you have taken to really well. As for the ramp, you can switch that off, shorten the time, or raise the pressure it starts at. Since you start at 6 anyway, I'd just switch i...

i would use screen shots from sleepyhead. https://sleep.tnet.com/resources/sleepyhead/shorganize

You can certainly wake up and take the mask off - just make sure it goes on again! If you can post the images,I suspect that will be of more use - although people who know more may well be able to make the connections from what you are saying. But stuff like maybe a large leak made your ahi jump or ...

I don't know if that's something eBay or amazon can help with?
I think I read about someone else having this problem, but the mask didn't leak and was still use able. Although I imagine patching it up with some tape might be worth a shot?

If all your numbers and circumstances are the same (no new meds, no massive weight change etc), it might not be a sleep apnoea problem?
Is something happening to wake you up? Change in pressure, neighbour going out, bright morning?
Although u feel awake, are you able to get back to sleep if you try?

As long as your ahi stays fine,is it worth worrying about the snoring/ being on your back? Maybe it depends what the data shows?

Didn't help me - narrow airways anyway. 3 weeks of hell, which although was worth a shot, has left it's traumatic marj on the family who looked after me! The nhs does not advise tonsillectomy to treat sleep apnoea any more either,because most of the time it doesn't help, or make enough difference to...

If your machine works with sleepyhead, I would suggest downloading that. It will show you what's different on the worse nights. But an ahi of 8 isn't great either(below 5 is the goal), so it might show you how to improve your numbers over all as well. Depending on what your machine is,there's differ...