Notice the lack of ANY personal information, a dead giveaway if there ever was one.

Yup, it's a troll I bet. But PLEASE, the less we respond, the more likely this post will get buried soon.

Hi Novatom, I am a new CPAP user and I am going the other way. I use a FFM and I am going to try a FFM with nose pillow instead of the total nose covering. I am a mouth breather due to deviated septum and chronic sinusitis so just a nose mask will not work for me. But I talked with my ENT and he sa...

Has anyone here ever switched from nasal pillows to FFM simply because the FFM is more effective, regardless of leak or comfort issues? I started using nasal pillows when I started CPAP therapy at the beginning of the year. I adapted well to them and have never had problems with leaks. My AHI has re...

When I had my sleep study last year, I took Temazepam which my former sleep doctor approved since I would be using the machine. She didn't want me to take it for the diagnostic study since she felt it increased apneas. Wow, that's the first time I have heard of that theory about Temazepam increasin...

I got the free 10-day trial prescription from my sleep Dr. recently and have tried it twice so far, not on consecutive nights. The first time I tried it, I took it within hours of returning to Washington DC from Europe so I couldn't fairly assess its effectiveness due to the jet lag. I did however, ...

I used 30mg of Temazepam for both my sleep study and titration. Sleep clinic was totally cool with it.

Has anyone here tried Belsomra, the new sleeping aid? I have a free trial for it. I tried it once last week but it didn't do much. But since I tried it after arriving from a flight back from Europe, I attribute the lack of effect to jet lag. Since then I have read numerous posts online that says it ...

(And yes, I still use a sleeping pill periodically) You say that you still use the sleeping pills periodically. How often does that mean? And have you considered keeping a log of whether you feel better after the nights when you take the sleeping pill as compared to the nights when you don't? Unfor...

You're not alone. I sucked my thumb until I was 20. I remember the day I stopped- in March 1981 when Reagan was shot. Not that that had anything to do with it, mind you, I just decided then and there to stop it. I was surprised at how easy it was (plus I lived in a college dorm, which was an added i...

Wow, I leave for a day or two and look at my thread, lol. I drive my husband nuts by not bothering to learn how to run all his (boring and complicated) TV settings. On the other hand, my health isn't at stake with that. Quite a few years ago I had to see a neurologist for a chronic issue. I asked h...

I've been fortunate to be able to use a nasal pillow since starting CPAP on Jan. 1. My leak rate is very low--on 99% of the nights since Jan. 1, my seal has been 100% according to Sleepmapper (Sleepyhead also shows very low leakage as well). And yet, the best I ever felt was on the night of my titra...

I flew last month for the first time. As I was standing in the checkin line, I noticed 2 other people with CPAP machines, (the bags are pretty obvious). In fact the guy in front me had the same bag... it's a great conversation starter. At security I didn't have to remove it from the bag and nobody f...

I'm confused.....why won't the sleep center doctor order the Ambien for him? Why does he have to rely on his PCP to order it? My PCP had nothing to do with my sleep study. I went to her with symptoms. She ordered lab tests to rule out other medical issues that could cause my symptoms. She also orde...

HI all, I brought home my cpap machine last night. It is the mask style (over nose and mouth). My wife said I didn't snore, and other than my being restless, she thought I slept well. I felt like I spent the whole night moving my mask to stop leaks, and stopping the farting noises that come from be...

So let's start there: Can you tell me how your insomnia works? In other words, can you tell me if any of this is accurate: A) You don't have too much trouble getting to sleep at the beginning of the night. B) At some point you wake up and once you wake up you tend to have trouble getting back to sl...