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Permalink Reply by Daniel on May 22, 2009 at 1:31pm

I get the feeling that more people read the discussions than read the comments on the videos that have been posted on SleepGuide, so I am posting the comments I made to the video here as well:

Personally, I think that it's nice to have the Pro, but as long as you had a high quality sleep study, you'll do just as well with the Plus. Therapeutically, it makes no difference at all. A CPAP is ultimately just a vacuum cleaner in reverse.

But speaking of vacuum cleaners, I'm al little concerned that you placed you CPAP on the floor underneath you bed. I can't tell if there's carpet in you bedroom, but if there is, you are essentially vacuuming your carpet up into your nose all night long! If it's a wood floor, there's still a whole lot more dust at floor level than there is if the CPAP is raised up a bit. If there's no room to put your CPAP on a nightstand, try to find a little footstool or something to keep it off the ground. If that's not possible, be sure to check your filters frequently, because I bet you'll have to change them about once every two to three weeks when the CPAP is on the floor.

I think I even detected the consequences of dirty filters in your video demonstration. With only two minutes or so of CPAP use, when you took off the mask, you were congested and snuffling for a while. It's possible that dust particles are being forced under pressure up into your nose and sinuses. Check your filters! If that isn't the problem, it seems to me that you would benefit from a heated humidifier. You didn't show the device in the video and you didn't mention one, so you may not even have one. I'd strongly recommend a heated humidifier to increase your comfort.

Lastly, I saw that you were making use of the Auto-Start feature, which can be a wonderful thing. However, with your device, the ramp feature does not engage when the Auto-Start kicks in. You must manually press the Ramp Button on the device. You may have thought the machine was starting at 4 and gradually ramping to 6, but you were actually starting right in at 6. No wonder you never noticed a higher pressure bothering you! Since 6 doesn't seem to disturb you, I wouldn't bother with the Ramp feature at all, and simply continue to enjoy the ease of use of Auto-Start.

I wish you continued success with your CPAP therapy,

Daniel

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Permalink Reply by Mike on May 23, 2009 at 12:53am

Terrific observations, Daniel. Amazing how much you were able to learn about what this gentleman might be doing wrong just by watching his video.

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Permalink Reply by Judy on May 23, 2009 at 10:41am

Yup, the Plus provides therapy equal to the Pro. But ... I want all the help I can get and full data capability whilst not perfect gives me some indication of possible problems sooner. I only used a less than fully data capable xPAP for two nights - over a weekend as it was delivered late on a Friday afternoon and it took me awhile to play w/it and the literature to realize it wasn't fully data capable. I returned it first thing Monday morning. I'm not interested in prolonging successful xPAP therapy by putting up w/"by guess and by gosh" therapy changes any more than necessary. I want all the "tools" I can get to help steer my doctor and me in the direction of SUCCESSFUL xPAP therapy!!!

Gooooood job, Daniel. You're very astute and observant. Your clients are VERY fortunate!!! Are you sure you don't want to relocate to Michigan??? *wicked grin*

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Permalink Reply by Mike on May 24, 2009 at 11:37pm

Somnihealth Midwest, that's what we need, Daniel. Now if Judy could just bridge you the seed capital and . . . ;-)

Judy said:

Yup, the Plus provides therapy equal to the Pro. But ... I want all the help I can get and full data capability whilst not perfect gives me some indication of possible problems sooner. I only used a less than fully data capable xPAP for two nights - over a weekend as it was delivered late on a Friday afternoon and it took me awhile to play w/it and the literature to realize it wasn't fully data capable. I returned it first thing Monday morning. I'm not interested in prolonging successful xPAP therapy by putting up w/"by guess and by gosh" therapy changes any more than necessary. I want all the "tools" I can get to help steer my doctor and me in the direction of SUCCESSFUL xPAP therapy!!!
Gooooood job, Daniel. You're very astute and observant. Your clients are VERY fortunate!!! Are you sure you don't want to relocate to Michigan??? *wicked grin*

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Permalink Reply by Judy on May 25, 2009 at 10:02am

Yeah, sure, I'll provide the seed capital - WHEN GM is again solvent and making money hand over fist and my pension and health care benefits are SAFE.

The government playing around w/health care scares the hell outta me!!!! GM's precarious position scares the hell outta me. The government scares me more tho since they are taking a hand in both. *sigh* Every time the government does me a favor I get screwed.

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