Pugsy wrote: ↑

Wed Dec 19, 2018 10:37 pm

Do you take any medications? If so, what?
Any other physical or mental health issues going on?

I’m not comfortable sharing but I do take medication for depression but maybe the depression is linked to sa. My insomnia is

...Studies show that in severe sufferers it takes up to a year for the brain to regrow it's lost weight, which is up to 30% brain mass loss in the study I read. That's both the lost sleep and the lost oxygen as well as possible metabolic factors. Reason I'm bringing it up is yes over the short term...

The neck brace didn’t do anything but make me uncomfortable but what I did was lower the epr from 3 to 2 and that brought my ahi down for the last few days

chunkyfrog wrote: ↑

Mon Dec 10, 2018 1:16 pm

It might be relevant to note that sleep deprivation is a widely used TORTURE method.
No good reason to do it to ourselves . . .

That’s what I felt like before I was using the machine- tortured

Ok I went out and bought one I’ll try it tonight

There is a little sock that comes with it do you know what that’s for?

I raised my pressure to 20 because i saw that i was having a lot of events that semi qualified but weren't flagged and i wanted to see if i could get rid of them here is my latest graph. When I first started using CPAP, I struggled for a good while with pressure requirements of 18 or 20 at certain ...

screenshot-20181213-115120.png I raised my pressure to 20 because i saw that i was having a lot of events that semi qualified but weren't flagged and i wanted to see if i could get rid of them here is my latest graph. I see I had a lot of ca events which I usually have none Also I’ve been dreaming ...

i appreciate all the answers

I use a APAP Is the point of the machine to give enough pressure to respond to apnias? Is it to give enough pressure to prevent them? I’m looking at my date on sh and there are a lot of apnias some qualify as full apnias bc they are the length of time that qualify but some are too short and aren’t f...

well I've been suffering (and labeled which i take pchych meds for) with a host of mental health issues i hope that it will go away with time from treatment

chunkyfrog wrote: ↑

Tue Dec 11, 2018 12:37 pm

I was dx'd with SAAD, but it lasted all year. WTF?
Bright lights still "hop" me up, but cpap keeps me on an even keel.

every time i read your posts (responses) i laugh keep it up

Did anyone have depression that went away after using the machine for a while?

Your pressure is not high enough. It looks like your pressure needs are similar to mine. I would recommend a minimum pressure of 16 cm. It seems like there are two opinions here you said my pressure needs to go up to 16 another person said I just need to have patience and things will get better idk...

Your pressure is not high enough. It looks like your pressure needs are similar to mine. I would recommend a minimum pressure of 16 cm. How do you manage breathing with such high pressure? Pfft, I've seen over 20 at times. Still not enough to blow up a balloon. Well mine can go up as high as 20 (20...

Okie bipap wrote: ↑

Mon Dec 10, 2018 2:51 pm

Your pressure is not high enough. It looks like your pressure needs are similar to mine. I would recommend a minimum pressure of 16 cm.

How do you manage breathing with such high pressure?