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- Tue Feb 13, 2024 1:49 pm
- Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
- Topic: Failed sleep study after 14 years on the hose
- Replies: 18
- Views: 3968
Re: Failed sleep study after 14 years on the hose
Prior to going on CPAP my AHI was in the mid-80's and somehow I managed to get SOME sleep (not saying it had any quality). But now, if I accidentally fall asleep without my CPAP (very rare) I'm almost immediately woken up with an apnea. My body won't let me "sleep" through that any more. I would fin...
- Mon Feb 12, 2024 6:04 pm
- Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
- Topic: Feeling short of breath while turning over in bed.
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1867
Re: Feeling short of breath while turning over in bed.
Are you holding your breath? I notice I do when I turn over. I have an elaborate system of pillows, stabilizing the mask, getting everything just so, and I tend to hold my breath in the process. Plus, I'm not in the best of physical shape. But it's transient and nothing I worry about. It's good that...
- Mon Feb 12, 2024 5:59 pm
- Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
- Topic: ResMed AirSense10 and generator
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2432
Re: ResMed AirSense10 and generator
I live about 1 1/2 hours north of you, and we were without power (but evacuated) during two years of fires. I bought a portable battery generator that gives me one night on my CPAP, plus it will charge a cell phone and has a small light. https://www.amazon.com/Portable-FlashFish-Generator-Adventure-...
- Sun Feb 11, 2024 7:07 pm
- Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
- Topic: Failed sleep study after 14 years on the hose
- Replies: 18
- Views: 3968
Re: Failed sleep study after 14 years on the hose
Your doctor is full of cheese. Here's the American Academy of Sleep Medicine Guideline: https://www.cms.gov/medicare-coverage-database/view/ncacal-decision-memo.aspx?proposed=N&NCAId=227&ver There is insufficient evidence to suggest that routine PSG and/or HSAT should be performed in patients who ar...
- Sun Feb 11, 2024 6:34 pm
- Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
- Topic: Dreamwear PR mask
- Replies: 19
- Views: 3869
Re: Dreamwear PR mask
About the mask. The company that provides the cpap called yesterday and I told them my issue with one tube always being compressed when I lay on my side. The employee told me this should not happen. She said it would not change the pressure but it would put more pressure on one nostril. Clearly the...
- Sun Feb 11, 2024 6:16 pm
- Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
- Topic: Kaiser changes machine settings
- Replies: 26
- Views: 5805
Re: Kaiser changes machine settings
btw I am not the OP. AND the OP never mentioned a CDL or any need for driving. To clarify my thought one would think IF this patient has coverage with Kaiser AND had a sleep study AND required a cpap OR Planet Kaiser would not add his equipment to the database. To repeat: the OP answered the questi...
- Sun Feb 11, 2024 6:10 pm
- Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
- Topic: CPAP recommendation (DS1 alternative)
- Replies: 32
- Views: 9779
Re: CPAP recommendation (DS1 alternative)
I see, thanks! Is PRS1 = PR SystemOne? It was my old machine. Yes, that's correct PRS1- PR System One and "flex" on Philips machines = EPR on Respironics. I turned it off after a time because it increased the noise (that PRS1 was noisy compared to the ResMed) and I didn't need the pressure relief. ...
- Fri Feb 09, 2024 4:21 pm
- Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
- Topic: Looking for a few reliable people to test a new product for F30i, DreamWear, and Amaraview
- Replies: 23
- Views: 5914
Re: Looking for a few reliable people to test a new product
Karen from Pad-a-Cheek does not make covers for Dreamwear masks, I asked once. I don't know if she's added them since. I would be interested but I don't use the "over the mouth" part, only the nasal cradle. I've been thinking of getting a Dreamwear FF mask for when I have a cold and can't breathe th...
- Fri Feb 09, 2024 4:15 pm
- Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
- Topic: Kaiser changes machine settings
- Replies: 26
- Views: 5805
Re: Kaiser changes machine settings
It didn't occur to me that the doctor's recommendations might depend on whether the patient could choose any machine they wanted, instead of being limited to the settings available on a standard CPAP provided by insurance. But it occurs to me now, and I think I'll go through my medical record to fi...
- Fri Feb 09, 2024 4:05 pm
- Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
- Topic: Philips sales halted ==> cpap shortage?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2809
Re: Philips sales halted ==> cpap shortage?
When Philips had to recall all their machines, there definitely was a shortage for a while. But as far as I can tell, ResMed has picked up the slack to the point where our hosts at cpap.com are selling ResMed Autoset 10's at a third of the former retail price, and they seem to have plenty in stock. ...
- Thu Feb 08, 2024 12:59 pm
- Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
- Topic: Dreamwear PR mask
- Replies: 19
- Views: 3869
Re: Dreamwear PR mask
I've been using the DreamWear mask for several years with no issues. If it wasn't delivering the proper pressure, you would see it in an increased AHI. You can check that on the machine without even accessing the data on the card. Mine is regularly between 0.2 and 0.3, so the treatment is fine with ...
- Wed Feb 07, 2024 4:10 pm
- Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
- Topic: CPAP recommendation (DS1 alternative)
- Replies: 32
- Views: 9779
Re: CPAP recommendation (DS1 alternative)
EPR is "Expiratory Pressure Relief". I can't remember if that's the term used on Philips machines, but all machines allow you to adjust the settings to have up to 3 cm of pressure relief during exhalation since some people find it uncomfortable to exhale against pressure. This is something most peop...
- Sun Feb 04, 2024 6:05 pm
- Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
- Topic: CPAP recommendation (DS1 alternative)
- Replies: 32
- Views: 9779
Re: CPAP recommendation (DS1 alternative)
I disagree with the premise that some algorithms can't be "more comfortable" than others. My first machine was a PRS1 and I felt like I had to fight it every single night for 6 years. I eventually got used to it, but would never have called it comfortable. And in terms of "aggressiveness" of the alg...
- Thu Feb 01, 2024 2:29 pm
- Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
- Topic: Smoker? Don't smoke around your CPAP!
- Replies: 31
- Views: 7521
Re: Smoker? Don't smoke around your CPAP!
You were the victim of child abuse! I would agree with that statement but for a few things: I describe the time I grew up as "the time before child psychology". Not technically true, but it might as well have been. Everyone smoked in the 1960's. Every other commercial and print ads was for cigarett...
- Fri Jan 26, 2024 2:27 pm
- Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
- Topic: Inclined bed: a solution for apnea's and snoring...?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 5110
Re: Inclined bed: a solution for apnea's and snoring...?
I sleep on a big stack of pillows and my home sleep study STILL had my AHI at 82. So no. I have fallen asleep sitting straight up (in the car, in a plane, when really tired in other places where sleep is not appropriate) and I have apnea almost immediately. Unless a sleep test confirms that apnea is...