You sound like "I went insane and became a doctor." Eric As I read the research years ago I noted that pure CPAP had consistently the fewest arousals during use. Since I believe that indicates the best quality sleep I decided to do what I needed to do to continue with CPAP. Well, learn to walk a lot...

If you dont have good offline equipment and DME support, getting onto CPAP can be damn well near impossible. I had good if not excellent real world, brick and mortar DME support when I started years ago and that was critical. If I had not had that support, I seriously doubt I'd be on CPAP now. Onlin...

No, I do not see much if any improvement in the technology of sleep disordered breathing. In fact, I liked the older CPAP and APAP technology, better. It worked better. The stuff they come out with now is designed to improve compliance, not improve effectiveness of the actual treatment. As an exampl...

As Ive mentioned on here before, I had a tonsillectomy a year ago. The surgery itself went great and stopped cold the repeating respiratory infections I had been experiencing, which i now have to assume was basically, tonsillitis. The bad thing was, after the tonsils were taken out, I can no longer ...

yeah, well I need to drop my pressures a good amount. I dont care if it "cures" me of sleep apnea, Im not really looking for a cure. What Im looking for is a big reduction in my needed pressures. I need to drop down into the 7s or low 8s or high 6s, if possible. My past experience has been that when...

Yeah, good article. I found out today that I might not have obesity hypoventilation syndrome. I dont know if Im being played or conned or whatever or if it is just an honest mistake or what. But here is the deal. On my discharge sheet, my sleep/pulmonary doc wrote two codes, under "DX." 278.03 which...

Uh, my experience has been the more weight I gain the higher my pressures go and when I lose weight, the lower my pressures go. Eric Long story short, I agreed to the weight loss surgery, he believes a massive weight loss of fifty pounds will drop my pressures well under ten, into the low 9s or into...

Anybody here got it? If so, how do you treat it? I saw my pulmonary sleep doctor two weeks ago, he spends very little time with me and the first words out of his mouth were, "how would you like to have surgery?" I was kind of taken aback, took me off guard I did not know how to respond right off. I ...

That certainly is atypical and far, far, far from the average OSA patient. The average OSA patient is obese and losing significant amounts of weight leads to significant reductions in severity of the sleep apnea. I agree in central apnea cases, obesity is not always the cause. But the causes of cent...

with their "free" obama phone. Its part of his state of the union address tonight. obama is going to promise more "free stuff" for Americans to bring more Americans into the middle class. He calls it income equality, others call it stealing. Be sure to email the white house soon and tell them which ...

weight is a big factor for most people who have OSA. while some of it has to do purely with genetic structure of your airway (throat, nose, sinuses, enlarged tonsils), most of it is obesity related. A lot of the people on this particular forum have a problem being told they are fat and if they lost ...

To give your health insurance company a bs excuse and line of bullshit that "you dont have OSA anymore? And to cut you off from paying for CPAP treatment. Its happened before.

Eric

[quote="Leadhead" and therefore I don't plan on getting any more studies...why would I?[/quote]

Provigil and Nuvigil are prescribed for "residual" EDS, if you have any residual EDS. Both drugs are also prescribed for non OSA related sleep disorders such as shift worker related sleep problems. The best thing IMO is to get your CPAP therapy perfected and try to eliminate all EDS. If you still ha...

You want a sure thing for a full face mask? Get a properly fitted Resmed Quattro FFM. The original, not one of these newer, hyped Quattro FXs or whatever. Get the original. its the best for jaw drop and mouth leak, period.

Eric

As little as possible, after you are firmly diagnosed with OSA and issued your CPAP gear. The reason I say as little as possible after you are firmly diagnosed is if you have more sleep studies afterwards, every sleep study you have gives your insurance company a chance to meddle and interfere with ...