Last summer, my family doctor was trying to readjust my high blood pressure meds because they weren't keeping my blood pressure down. I'm one of those rare people that have a normal to slow heart rate even though I have high blood pressure. With blood pressure meds, my heart rate is about 55 to 60 a...

I live in Dallas, Texas, and went to Durango, Colorado, last September on vacation. At the time, I had a Fisher & Paykel plain cpap machine with no automatic altitutude adjustment. My pressure had always been at 12. I called my DME and he gave me some figure to calculate what pressure I would need i...

A lot depends on your age. If you're at that glorious age of peri-menopause and early menopause, night sweats are just a part of it. Certain hormone supplements are supposed to help control it (estrogen, I think) but I've stayed away from hormone supplements. I sleep in a 50 degree room with light c...

We've been married 33 years and I've slept in a separate bedroom for the last 6 years. It's been a much better situation for us. My hubby is 65 and I'm 56. I had undiagnosed apnea for about 25 years and snored as loud as a frieght train and got very little sleep. My husband doesn't believe there is ...

I had those precpap and only once since cpap. Before cpap, I had one so bad that my chest hurt for about a week because I had struggled so hard for breath. The doctor told me that was very common before cpap. They're sure no fun and I hope I don't have another one anytime soon.

The first doctor I went to was in a private practice and prescribed timolol maleate which cost $90 for a tiny bottle and it burned like crazy when I put the drops in. I then went to a teaching hospital and they switched me to levobunolol which doesn't hurt at all and cost about $25 a bottle at a reg...

I'd like the medium pillows. I private messaged you so check your messages.

I have used a Fisher Paykel cpap machine for over 3 years. I've never had to use the warranty so I don't know how good it is. The machine is great. It's a plain cpap but it runs like a charm and I've never had any problem at all out of it.

I have high eye pressure and no sign of glaucoma also. I've had all of the tests and examinations and there is no damage to the optic nerve or any loss of peripheral site either. The eye doctor put me on eye drops immediately (Levobunolol). My eye pressures have remained within normal range since I'...

Cranberry juice can taste pretty bad to some people so if you don't like it, there are also cranberry capsules you can buy in the health foods and vitamin section of your local supermarket and they dont' contain the sugar that most cranberry drinks do. Your doctor advised taking over the counter str...

I've had kidney stones 3 times also but I started having them back when I was 29 years old and skinny and didn't have sleep apnea. Most of the people in my family have kidney stones and some have apnea and some don't. There doesn't seem to be any correlation between kidney stones and apnea with my f...

Wulfman, thanks for the links.

I've heard several people say they feel different when blood sugar levels rise. I was diagnosed with diabetes last February and I've never felt any different. I go to a teaching hospital so I see a different doctor every time and they don't take the time to explain the numbers to me. If I ask them, ...

I talked with the DME that sold me the machine and he said that for a 6,000 foot elevation change (which is approximately the difference between Dallas, Texas and Durango Colorado), I should multiple my current rate (which is 12) by 1.22 which comes out to be about 14. I'll try raising it to 15 if 1...

dllfo What a great story!!!! I love it. Fortunately, I'm not on oxygen so I don't have that to contend with (I don't know if that's fortunate or not!). Anyway, I'll just turn the cpap all of the way and see what happens. I don't think I'll blow up or anything. I can hardly wait until Saturday!!!!!