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- Sun Feb 12, 2023 7:20 am
- Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
- Topic: UARS Bipap/ASV consensus
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2247
Re: UARS Bipap/ASV consensus
Hi, _ Just add my own 6-year experience on PAP's. I have moderated OSA and UARS (typical flat top waveforms, etc). Have gone to brick CPAP (lost my time and money during 1 year), APAP (lost my time and money during 1 month), and then the Bilevel aircurvve since then (overnight rounded wave forms wit...
- Fri Aug 27, 2021 10:40 am
- Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
- Topic: BarryKrakowMD New Sleep Newsletter
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1473
Re: BarryKrakowMD New Sleep Newsletter
Hi, Dr. Barry _ good to hear from you downhere; great admiror of your work, book, articles, etc. So grateful! _ I started CPAP some 4 years ago; very minor OSA, and UARS all night, then. RLS also, properly battled these days; _ Now, since some 3 years ago, on BilevelResmed, I think I have suceeded o...
- Thu Feb 25, 2021 7:04 am
- Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
- Topic: My MAD Experience
- Replies: 4
- Views: 695
Re: My MAD Experience
_Thanks for sharing this! I am still waiting, and I would like to hear about good benefiets/cost with these appliances
good luck
good luck
- Wed Nov 11, 2020 7:45 am
- Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
- Topic: So glad I found you
- Replies: 37
- Views: 5847
Re: So glad I found you
Hi, _ just because I was already trying to help you, I am going to post this. I had decided not keep posting here. And, also, I only post on things I am most familiar with (similar to mine) that is, UARS, RLS, CPAP to Autoset to BiPAP, closer look on under-explored OSCAR charts, medications to stabi...
- Thu Oct 22, 2020 7:10 am
- Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
- Topic: Fixed my leak, yet feel like I am regressing.
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1010
Re: Fixed my leak, yet feel like I am regressing.
ResMed Airsense 10 w/ AirFit N30i .... went years constantly exhausted...... through the VA (so all my equipment is prescribed to me) ??..... was initially put on a full face mask as I had a history of breathing through my mouth....Even still I could tell a huge difference then before I started tre...
- Tue Oct 20, 2020 6:39 am
- Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
- Topic: Very discouraged newbie
- Replies: 25
- Views: 3952
Re: Very discouraged newbie
Just downloaded Sleepyhead. So glad I did. Sure gives MUCH more info than the app I got on my phone... Hi, _ I would encourage you don't give up. Maybe so many basic things to go through yet, in my modest opinion; _ You have just taken the first step on getting proper data. Very curious to see them...
- Sun Oct 18, 2020 10:23 am
- Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
- Topic: When Using OSCAR How Can you Tell When Your Sleeping?
- Replies: 23
- Views: 2475
Re: When Using OSCAR How Can you Tell When Your Sleeping?
When Using OSCAR How Can you Tell When Your Sleeping? How do you know when your in REM sleep and for how long? How do you tell the stages of sleep from the chart? I guess I need to understand more than just pressures and time. Hi, _ such a good question! Let me share my experience; _ I think I have...
- Sun Oct 18, 2020 9:57 am
- Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
- Topic: Newbie cpap fixed pressure x central
- Replies: 5
- Views: 555
Re: Newbie cpap fixed pressure x central
Hi, _ Pugsy, interesting points on the centrals and REM stages; _ actually, waking up just following REM stages is one of my residual problems after my 22 months of therapy and so many adjustments. Sometimes I am able to complete the stage, sometimes not, quite often truncated in the midle, somewher...
- Sat Oct 17, 2020 6:59 am
- Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
- Topic: Oscar Charts Input
- Replies: 27
- Views: 2998
Re: Oscar Charts Input
Yesterday was the first night that I used the soft collar, in addition to taping my mouth which I have been doing for about 3 weeks now. It's interesting that my AHI dropped down to almost a zero. I had one central and one obstructive-however the obstructive happened as I was awake, so I am discoun...
- Fri Oct 16, 2020 8:20 am
- Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
- Topic: How Often Do You All Look at Your OSCAR Stats?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 2122
Re: How Often Do You All Look at Your OSCAR Stats?
Hi, _ good question! _ I am afraid, I cannot even imagine going through all this without daily data observations and analyses. I am completing some 3.0 years on PAP's, since this thing, kind of saved my life. Initially, on blind brick CPAP I waisted a quite long while on my therapy. _Today, it is my...
- Thu Oct 15, 2020 5:55 am
- Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
- Topic: So glad I found you
- Replies: 37
- Views: 5847
Re: So glad I found you
Can you share more info on how you got away from mouth-breathing? Things are going much better with the F20 + collar -- I'm consistently getting 4+ hours a night with the mask on. But I notice when I wake up that I have switched to mouth breathing. Hi, _ well, indeed, for a quite sometime now, I co...
- Wed Oct 14, 2020 6:04 pm
- Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
- Topic: Oscar Charts Input
- Replies: 27
- Views: 2998
Re: Oscar Charts Input
Hi, thanks Michezaji (male or female? I am afraid, I may have missed..) _ I am afraid your case comes with some complexity, indeed. I would have to count on other opinions, trying to narrow down something. Let us refresh and see if we could conclude something up to here: _ Pugsy, with all her experi...
- Wed Oct 14, 2020 11:58 am
- Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
- Topic: Newbie Oscar results insight
- Replies: 33
- Views: 4023
Re: Newbie Oscar results insight
Hi, Nevergiveup _ that's interesting what you have experiencing. No surprise for me, you felt much better on the Benzo; _ I had a 40-year-not continuous experience with Benzo's (in particular, Clonazepam 0.5mg; first, without PAP for much longer period, then, Clonazepam + PAP for some 2.0years); not...
- Wed Oct 14, 2020 6:09 am
- Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
- Topic: When will ResMed come out with a new model APAP?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1493
Re: When will ResMed come out with a new model APAP?
My ResMed Autoset is about 5 yrs old. Any news or rumours of a new updated model in the near future? Hi, _ good question; _ I would take advantage and poll this, just as curiosity after observations on some one hundred cases: does anybody succeed, ever, on treating properly UARS (I roughly estimate...
- Tue Oct 13, 2020 6:09 am
- Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
- Topic: OSA and acid reflux, looking for advice
- Replies: 23
- Views: 4533
Re: OSA and acid reflux, looking for advice
Is there a connection between sleep apnea and acid reflux? Does one cause the other or worsen the other? If so, how? Hi, _ in accordance with the ENT, Dr. Steven Park (his book Sleep Interrupted and blogs, etc), definitively there would be connections between UARS and reflux, actually, it would be ...