99

Male

Marietta GEORGIA

United States

Profile Information:

My Interest in Sleep Apnea: I have Sleep Apnea, Other
Treatment Being Used, if any: Auto-Adjusting CPAP
If Machine Being Used, What Type? (e.g., Respironics M Series with A-Flex Auto-Adjusting CPAP): I have sleep apnea with bradycadia
ResMed escape S8 hospital loan
Philips Respironics System one auto A Flex own primary unit sept 2010
DeVilbiss 9001 own as backup unit 2010
started on my cpap January 2009
set to 15
set to 15 August 2010
my sats are 95
ahi 20.3
new ahi 0.4 august 2010
If Mask Being Used, What Type? (e.g., ResMed Activa Nasal Mask): Fisher Paykel 432 full face mask
with
foam insert size large

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Josephine Willis

I have been doing some research on my family & found they immigrated from whales! Irish immigrants. Long story! Lol

Oct 18, 2009
Josephine Willis

I am learning that. It got very confusing. I'd been told by my bio father that we descended from whales. That he knew of a family crest. I am now after years of searching, in possession of that crest.

Oct 18, 2009
Karl B.

um, i asked a question about DME recs in NYC. i'm not a spammer. if you see me spamming plz accuse me, until then plz dont.

Nov 6, 2009
Karl Lynham

i'm a respiratory therapist and a sleep technologist. i have worked in both the DME and sleep lab setting. that is the extent of my know how.

Nov 7, 2009
CleveMed

Well, I work as a multimedia designer for the CleveMed Sleep team (medical devices company) and we make wireless sleep diagnostic equipment among other things. I personally had not even heard of Sleep Apnea till then. Goes to show how much of educating is needed out there.
Thanks for the comment! Looks like a great community here.

Nov 14, 2009
Ms_ZZZZ

Oh, and I misspelled it as well! Banshee?
No, I am french and Austrian.
And thanks for the welcome.

Nov 16, 2009
claudette paluch

Thank you! i sent you a message earlier. i dont know what i am doing re manipulating this site....and i am exhausted!! no sleep. have an old respironics bipap...7 1/2 yr... and am trying the res med vpap auto 25 without their humidifier...using my fisher paykel humidifier which is not a great idea. but...and am trying to learn more about the equipment....hope you are doing well.......

Nov 17, 2009
Lisa Brateman, Psychotherapist

Thanks so much for the welcome. Looking forward to attending the next AWAKE group in Dec. Lisa

Nov 20, 2009
Jennifer Jackson

Thank you!

Nov 24, 2009
Christopher Gilliard

Thanks for the welcome :-)

Nov 25, 2009
JanSaysHello

Thanks for the welcome

Nov 27, 2009
Pam McReynolds

Thank you for the welcome. I've also invited my sister to this page. We both have obstructive and central sleep apnea.

Nov 27, 2009
Karl B.

no worries have just been busy

Nov 30, 2009
Lawrence Lane

Thanks, 99, for the kind welcome. No Hills in my family tree, just monkeys!

Dec 1, 2009
Kathleen

Thanks, 99 !
Now, tell me, are you the infamous 'Agent 99', Maxwell Smart???

Dec 2, 2009
Kathleen

OK, Plain old 99, I read your profile.
Knowing Sign Language will be very rewarding.
fyi - practice using a mirror; that will make reading easier, if you haven't already done that.
Good luck on that endeavor.

Dec 2, 2009
Matt

Thank you, 99. I said that before, but on my own Wall. I have that problem on face book also. Thanks, Matt

Dec 10, 2009
Noel King Piros

Thanks for the welcome! I always thought my first name meant "Christmas", I don't know if it has another meaning or not. My married name (Piros) means "red" in Hungarian. We just recently found this out as my husband was always told his family was from Greece.

Dec 10, 2009
Josef Halepaska

It's the Family Coat of Arms. In the arched curve along the top is Chaloupecky, the original spelling of my family name (now Halepaska). Below that is Coat of arms and then last but not least, Pivo & Erb. Bohemian for Beer & Breast, antiquity's dual foods of life.

Dec 21, 2009
Azmedic

That is the inner me!!! Loved the picture when I first saw it..\

Jan 3, 2010
Dave

If you are undergoing a sleep study in June and you have apnoea. You should by then receive the S9 and all the bits from the National Heath. If you wish to buy private you will need a form completed by the sleep clinic and then register at http://shop.realsleep.co.uk/. That's Resmed UK and you will be permitted to buy VAT free. Good luck with the sleep study

Feb 22, 2010
Banyon

Apr 15, 2010
RChatty

Hey, you like penguins too I take it.

May 29, 2010
Douglas A Pavone

what does sleep aepna and sex have to do with each other?
Please monitor your responses this is a family page.

Jun 15, 2010
Kath Hope www.hope2Sleep.co.uk

Thanks for the 'friend' invite + love the penguins :) I saw your comment you'd left about the oximeter + am looking into this thanks. Kath

Jul 24, 2010
Allison Keller

Hey 99 :-) thanks for the welcome! What is the diffeerence between apap and cpap?

Aug 6, 2010
Allison Keller

He's my hubby =)

Aug 20, 2010
losing weight

I don't think that I have a thyroid problem because I have been tested plus i have neevr been a big person I was always small until I hit 35 then the weight started coming only a little at a time and i thought it was ok but then when i tried to lose it the weight would not stop it kept going up now I am two times the weight so losing a little weight and seeing it go down one pound every week is a good thing to me I have not walk or run or done anything to lose weight it is just going by its self and I have to start doing things to help it to go down more

Aug 23, 2010
Banyon

99, I notice at least one other person uses the same avatar as you and this has confused me a couple of times. How about this one for you:

Aug 31, 2010
mollete

Busy? Who me? LOL, not hardly! I'm lying on the beach soaking up Vitamin D!

Sep 4, 2010
Banyon

Hey 99, You are into tying yourself up in bed with kelp :):) , is that about iodine and thyroid? You might want to look at this post http://www.sleepguide.com/forum/topics/if-you-dont-sleep-well-you?p... and this link http://allonhealth.com/hypothyroidism-test.htm

Regards.

Sep 4, 2010
Mary Z

99, you're ahead of all of us (on the beach with mollete?), kelp? Like the new avator by the way.. Let us know more details on the kelp, please, how you take it, the dose, anything else pertinent please.
Thanks,
Mary Z.

Sep 4, 2010
mollete

Well now I'm baffled, cause 99 is the babe:

Maxwell is 86.

Sep 5, 2010
James @ Intus

Hi 99,

I had to do some digging based on the limited info I have from your profile here but the Rhondda address seemed to have worked. Assuming you are the gentleman with telephone ending 001 then my colleague has contacted you Thursday 11:14am by email to request the additional info required. Please double check your junk folder just to be sure. Regards, James

Sep 10, 2010
losing weight

I will try taking my temp. in the morning for three day's; I will let you know what happens thanks.

Sep 11, 2010
mollete

You changed to 001, eh?

That's a heck of a promotion!

I think I'll just stick with my screen name.

I don't want to confuse people.

Sep 12, 2010
Gary R. Munn

Thanks for the welcome. Firstly, I am not a Medical Doctor, just a PhD in English Lit. I have recently been diagnosed with Sleep Apnea through very low oxygen levels while sleeping. I am waiting, not very patiently, for results from my over night "wire up", to get on with treatment. Probably CPAP plus oxygen, but the specialist will decide after these latest tests. I just want to get on with it, so that I may, perhaps, get a more restful sleep, and feel like living again. I will keep the group informed of my progress.
Thanks again for the welcome!!

Gary

Sep 14, 2010
Rette Tyrrel

Thanks for the info. I do have a transformer, but wonder if it's strong enough, if that makes any sense. Monday, will call the company. It took me a while to figure out what was going on. Also, appreciate the 'ask again' tip. I've usually stopped at the first denial.

Sep 26, 2010
DeVilbiss Marketing

That's a good quality machine and pretty quiest for its time.

Sep 30, 2010
Donna B.

Very much so ! It is my life's work at home and on the job.

Oct 2, 2010
steven firshein

Hi And thanks for the welcome note. Ive been aware of my sleep apnea problem for some time. At first it was mild with lots of snoring. Over time it got worse and my wife couldnt sleep in the same room. I was unsuccessful with the CPAP and contacted a dentist friend about making me an oral appliance. As a dentist myself that was the beginning of my interest in working with patients who share this challenge

Oct 2, 2010
Banyon

Have you been awarded a triple x rating for bad behaviour?

Oct 3, 2010
Kevin Cooper

Thank you for the welcome note. I appreciate the comment about being an "expert" but to be honest I learn more on the forums than anywhere else. Glad to be here.

Oct 21, 2010
simon denton

Hi i've join to try to find some information about using cpap which has stopped apnea's but i still feel extremly tired all of the time i have been taking tramadol and then changed to oxycontine for the last 4yrs which i think the problem is but my pain specialist keeps telling me its not the pain meds which i take for disc degenaration i have ask my gp for some medication to help with the tiredness he told me only the sleep clinic Doctor can perscribe medication for that but I'm having a nightmare trying to get an appointment to c him i was seeing him next week but they moved my appointment to march this has happened 4 times now any advice would be nice

Oct 22, 2010
Mike Burns

Thanks I think this a great help to people that have OSA

Oct 27, 2010
Barry Winton

Dear 99
What do you mean "without a script you cannot buy a cpap?"
Best wishes,
Barry

Nov 15, 2010
Banyon

How about a new avatar?

Dec 2, 2010
Deborah Williams

Thank you for the awesome welcome...yes Williams is a very good surname
to have...i've just been diagnosed with OSA this yr to my amazement as both
my kids have OSA too...Debbie :)

Dec 6, 2010
Deborah Williams

Thanks..will talk to my sleep dr here in the USA...i haven't had an appointment to go back & see him yet as he was trying certain Narcolepsy meds which are
not working..i still nap during the day...

Dec 8, 2010
Vicki Vargerson

Hi thanks for the welcome ,,

Jan 20, 2011