I am 113 days into cpap. I am usually seeing AHI in the 1-2 range, mostly CAs and Hs; however, I am also still seeing some OAs which makes me wonder if I need to tweak the machine's settings a bit. I would appreciate some of the forum vets taking a look at last night's data to see if they would reco...

Thanks for the update Leebee. Sounds like you’re on your way!

AHI represents the total number of apnea events divided by the number of hours you are hooked up to your CPAP machine. For example, if you have 4 apnea events during an 8 hour session, your AHI would be 4 divided by 8 which equals. .5 So your AHI = .5 In other words, AHI is not each hour, but the av...

I recently heard that the nutritional supplement, Glycine can help with sleep maintenance. It's cheap, so I thought I'd give it a try. It's not supposed to have any adverse effects and it's supposed to be most helpful with sleep maintenance. What specific product are you taking? What dose? Sounds p...

I also have suffered from nocturia and have been on CPAP for about 3 months. CPAP has reduced my nighttime pee trips to maybe one (before usually 3-4), but I was still going too frequently during the day, about every 1 to 1.5 hours. I went to a new urology doctor about a month ago and in that initia...

For anyone curious like me as to what this is, here is a link:

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Thanks for the tip.

Welcome to the forum!

You mentioned using a product called body adhesive. Could you please include a link to specifically what you’re talking about? Sounds interesting.

Thanks for the replies. It's all so very new and it's hard to know what is "normal" and what to expect at this stage, so hearing from the vets like Pugsy really helps. Thanks!

This morning I checked the Airesense 10 console and saw 5.25 AHI for the night, not real bad, but not all that good either. I did get up once to go to the bathroom, so I checked out SH data for the night. Here it is: http://i.imgur.com/4QZqF2ih.png My first sleep session was almost 6 hours with AHI ...

Thanks all.....

Newbie here with a couple of questions for the vets: 1) I see that many have backup machines. So how frequently do your machines malfunction? When it does go on the fritz, who do you send it to for repair, how long are you without that machine, and about how much do repairs cost on average? Of cours...

Here is the one I have been using, "Anti Snore Chin Strap by NONPAREIL." It's not flimsy like some, and the price is certainly right. I usually have the straps in front of my ears rather than using the slits for my ears. And, I have it under my chin rather than on my chin. I think its a matter of fi...

About 2 months into CPAP and now I have a whole new syndrome to deal with----DCSS or "Daily CPAP Score Syndrome." The machine is carefully measuring each and every inhale/exhale, along with a bunch of other things, each and every night, so I find myself every morning checking on my "score" for the n...

Welcome to the forum!

I am also a new "hosehead" and have found the information and advice from this forum invaluable.

Congratulations on your successful beginnings!

None of the above. I bought a small shelf that attaches to the side rail of the bed. It was like $20 on amazon. Keeps it just slightly lower than my head, perfect size for my machine. https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B07933WNPL/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o04_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 Wow! What a great idea, ...