Hey guys, I'm just sort of "free-associating" here, but in the quest to get the best treatment, has anyone thought of getting a pulse ox machine for home use? I'm certain my insurance will NOT cover something like this. I looked around and found a lot of small machines that you take a one-shot measu...

All great information. Thanks again guys. Just a follow-up on my "totally unscientific approach to self-titration". I cranked it up to 6.8, figuring that is a fairly safe to level to jump up to since it is still pretty low pressure. My wife said she didn't think I snored at all on Friday night. Of c...

Thanks much for the info. That is pretty helpful. I was thinking something like that might be happening. I was thinking that my pressure might be just a bit too low and to try moving it up to see what happens. (Like to 6-7 and not something crazy like 15 or so. ) In answer to the sleep study questio...

Hello all, So I've got my Autoset Respond and an Activa standard mask. I almost never have leaks and even then they are in the 0.02 or 0.04l/s state. But I'm still in the state of asking "is it working"? I've been fully compliant for about 3 months now but still don't feel like it's "helping". I don...

Kudos to everyone for not letting this thread get "ugly". So often people with conflicting view points start getting mean in these types of threads. Guess I'll add my viewpoint as well here, for no particular reason. One poster keeps talking about "flawed studies". Now that may be true but they then...

Sigh. You're Doctor is being a dufus. "You don't want any of the newfangled auto-pap stuff. And I wouldn't trust it anyway." Yeesh. I'm sorry but that's just plain bad advice. Read this forum, you will see bunches of people who had great success managing/monitoring their own care. I don't know anyth...

Thanks, hopefully I can make people laugh once in a while. Heck, my wife calls me Gonzo when I've got the mask on. He is one of my favorite muppets so that's cool. Yup, I know I've got to stick with it. I am grateful that I can actually sleep pretty comfortably with the mask on. I don't know how peo...

Now that is some interesting points. I never thought to look at the stage 1/2/3/4 levels on my sleep study. I just looked at the AHI/RDI number. I seem to recall some comment about 0 REM sleep. My sleep study was a nightmare. I barely got an hour+ of sleep. (Just enough to show I'm in a bad state of...

Ehusen, In any event, if your apnea was so severe, there isn't a question that you need to be on this machine regardless of feeling results or not. You are saving your own life. Oxygen desats like that can only lead to further danger to your health. So hang in there and know you are doing the right...

You mention "heart issuses" without detail. Are you aware that some heart issues get better with CPAP treatment? O. Yup, I do know that. (I'm the originator of the thread. I, somehow keep getting guested for some reason). My "heart issues" were an abnormal EKG, which lead to a stress test and lots ...

Hello, The search function can be your friend... Here is a cut and paste from a response by "mikemoran" ... --------------------------------------------------- My Spirit shows my leak rate and also shows an evaluation of the rate. For example anythign less than .1 is considered an excellent mask sea...

Let me be the first to say "You go girl!" I'm 40 year old male who is about 50 lbs overweight. I'm 6'2" so I hide it somewhat but it still makes me look "bad". I've spent a lot of time "whining" about how unfair it is, and how hard it is, and yaddah yaddah yaddah yah... But it boils down to a simple...

Hello, I'm the original poster on this thread. (Thought I had been logged in but oh well.) So I went to the doctor as per your advice. He believes it to be (drum roll please)... "Lateral Femoral Cutaneous Neuropathy" It is essentially a pinched nerve running through the pelvic bone. It's very common...

Hey, I was curious at to what your own experiences are using xPAP to treat your apnea. I've been searchng the net for studies and such about the good/bad of xPAP and there seems to be a lot of conflicting/inconclusive data. Right now what I generally garner is that apnea MAY cause: high BP, depressi...

Hey everyone, Thanks to all for the great information provided in this forum. It's nice to have a place to get information and just to commiserate about having to be attached to some Borg/Alien contraption every night. My question today is about the leak data on the autoset respond. In short, what i...