Congratulations! One thing I didn't catch is how your wife is sleeping now that you have the machine. To be honest, my wife experienced the most significant sleep improvements at first when I started on the machine. While it woke me up a few times, and the benefits weren't immediate for me, the lack...

Regarding being able to relate, I can very much relate. Life can put you into one of those negative spirals where the downers feed on one another to where it seems impossible to climb out of the hole you find yourself in. In my case I had serious sleep apnea most of my life. As an Air Force Recruit ...

Things are improving to where I can sleep on my side now for the most part, and my numbers and more importantly sleep quality are improving rapidly. Monday I had to go in for one more Stent in my Heart as he didn't want to do the arteries on both sides at the same time. My follow up for this stent w...

It appears the Cervical collar might not be the answer. Here is what my night looked like with EPAP running at 10, cervical collar installed, head of bed raised so that the top of the bed was up approximately 18 inches. Finally, I don't know if this comes in to play or not, but I have lost approxima...

.... Once I got into a regular room they had me use my own machine, but they had a guy come in and inspect it and put a sticker on it first. Can you find out the title of the guy who inspected and certified it? That's probably a fairly standard hospital function if you know to ask for it. Thanks. T...

Last night I tried bumping Epap minimum up to 14, PS min 4 max 11 which is high as I could set that. Unfortunately I forgot to put my memory card back in so I have no sleepyhead data. I woke up at approximately 1:00 am with stomach full of air, took lots of belching to resolve. AHI was showing 37 po...

That the machine is working hard is very obvious when you're trying to sleep with it. On the plus side, it just did it's job without causing me any issues for so long that until recently it had become just routine, something I never thought much about. We retired last summer, spent months on the roa...

Here is the zoomed in data. Thanks for taking the time to look

I had two separate hospital stays last month, one overnight where they had my wife bring my machine in for me. The second stay was for emergency surgery I was in intensive care the first 5 nights, and they insisted you had to use their machine, which as this huge thing on a cart that was far to nois...

I thought I had set it for 12, but it appears I only went up to 11.6 Also, I set the IPAP higher than the machine will go, while the machine lets me dial in higher numbers, it appears to top out at 25. Unfortunately, unlike years ago when I took a little time to research prior to making any small ad...

Regarding the Surgery, I had Two Heart Stents installed on 11 March, a simple overnight stay in hospital and only stayed because went in with chest pains and couldn't get angiogram and stents till next morning. Unfortunately, the evening of 12 March developed extreme stomach pain, turned out to be P...

Thanks in part to help from these forums a few years back, I've been successfully treating my Sleep Apnea for 5 or so years, average AHI of under 2. To keep things low, I had to train myself not to sleep on my back as things weren't working with any decent settings then. Unfortunately, I've recently...

I had to go the Bipap first because of insurance company issues rather that going straight to ASV even though the doctor didn't think the Bipap would get me very good results. Cpap wasn't even an option. Fortunately for me I'm somewhat over insured using Tricare for secondary coverage which means I ...

I have the same problem with my ResMed ASV machine. It doesn't like the way I breath at all during the sleep transition period, and until I get to sleep the pressure ramp up and forced breathing keep me from falling asleep. With my S9 I find the ramp feature keeps things from getting so crazy so hav...

I would be looking for a better doctor that is more educated in regards to sleep apnea. My sleep doctor went over my options quite well with me, to include the probabilities/best case scenario etc. and advised me that the machine was my only real option even though I had jaw structure problems, a de...