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by musculus
Tue May 21, 2013 10:08 am
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: UARS and my treatment plan: need help
Replies: 28
Views: 5295

Re: UARS and my treatment plan: need help

This is the overnight sleep structure from my titration study. I slept the first two hours with MAS dental appliance and the rest with CPAP (Pressure increase from 7 to 10). You can see a lot of deep sleep and REM sleep interruptions, most of which are not caused by A&H events. Report calls them spo...
by musculus
Tue May 21, 2013 9:27 am
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: UARS and my treatment plan: need help
Replies: 28
Views: 5295

Re: UARS and my treatment plan: need help

Thanks, Pugsy. What is the baseline mask leak, ~28? Large leak territory for the 60 series machines seems to be upwards of 80 L/min...so you sort of got close when you bumped 60 L/min but didn't make it any higher on what you have shown so far. SleepyHead reports make mountains out of mole hills due...
by musculus
Tue May 21, 2013 7:53 am
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: UARS and my treatment plan: need help
Replies: 28
Views: 5295

Re: UARS and my treatment plan: need help

Very interesting comment really. It's great for you to get a machine with rich features (I think RESMED make better machines). However, I have to stuck with this DS750 (bought on craigslist) since insurance won't cover me for xPAP. I can only hope that medicine would one day have advanced enough to ...
by musculus
Tue May 21, 2013 7:45 am
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: UARS and my treatment plan: need help
Replies: 28
Views: 5295

Re: UARS and my treatment plan: need help

1. No, I don't wake up from sleep. 2. Leak may be a problem. I'll try putting on smaller nasal pillow and chin strap. 3. Sleeping on my stomach is uncomfortable for me so I cannot sleep in that position for full night. In term of breathing, it's a great position. The below graph is the recording of ...
by musculus
Mon May 20, 2013 2:46 pm
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: UARS and my treatment plan: need help
Replies: 28
Views: 5295

Re: UARS and my treatment plan: need help

Reading the full transcript of sleep study would help a lot. I find doctors usually won't dig that deep. Otherwise I would have discovered my SDB problem 3 years earlier. I can only hope that medicine would one day have advanced enough to be able to properly diagnose and treat all sorts of sleep dis...
by musculus
Mon May 20, 2013 2:44 pm
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: UARS and my treatment plan: need help
Replies: 28
Views: 5295

Re: UARS and my treatment plan: need help

Thanks! Apparently I misused the term, by flow limitation I mean the irregular shape of the breathing waveforms when I zoom in the sleepyhead data. There is definitely something wrong with my airway since I sleep very well on my stomach. The problem is I cannot keep that position very long, maybe at...
by musculus
Mon May 20, 2013 12:22 pm
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: UARS and my treatment plan: need help
Replies: 28
Views: 5295

Re: UARS and my treatment plan: need experts' opinion

IPAP/EPAP: 11/9 http://i1344.photobucket.com/albums/p648/Lei_Pang/May16_zps4ac4b7a9.png IPAP/EPAP: 8/6 http://i1344.photobucket.com/albums/p648/Lei_Pang/May15_zps9080d099.png First, the premise of this topic might be a bit off. Some of us might be expert patients, but I don't know that any of us cou...
by musculus
Mon May 20, 2013 10:08 am
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: UARS and my treatment plan: need help
Replies: 28
Views: 5295

Re: UARS and my treatment plan: need experts' opinion

Be sure to read about all the side effects of that surgery. You may hate the results worse than what is happening now. It is your decision; and we have not seen your uvula. Thanks. It's the last resort considering I have failed all conservative treatments. And the Uvular Flap surgery itself is more...
by musculus
Mon May 20, 2013 8:55 am
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: UARS and my treatment plan: need help
Replies: 28
Views: 5295

UARS and my treatment plan: need help

Hi, I am a 30 yrs male with UARS (daytime sleepiness and AHI number about 2: very few apneas and hyponeas, a lot of microarousals during stage 3 sleep and REM). I have somnomed MAS dental appliance, AVEO tsd, and a Respironic BIPAP AUTO. There is no compliance issue whatsoever. I can tolerate all th...
by musculus
Fri Mar 01, 2013 2:56 pm
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: For Sale: ResMed S8 AutoSet Device
Replies: 11
Views: 1769

Re: For Sale: ResMed S8 AutoSet Device

STL Mark wrote:Used S9 Autosets go for $350 to $400. I've sold new S9 Autosets for $475. My advise would be to adjust your price to about $250 if you want to sell it here, or list on Craigslist and hope for an uninformed buyer.
Wondering how much would a PR system one bipap auto (~100 hours) worth here?