Thank you for the welcome!  I have had my cpap since April 2010.  It has been a challenge because it's set at 17.  I use medication to help me sleep.

Where is Sedalia,Mo?

 I appreciate your input on my new equipment.  I got the Resmed S9 auto cpap with humidifier and ClimateLine heated tubing. My doc and provider picked it for me. Really didn't have much to say about it. I told them I wanted to try Auto cpap and they let me pick my mask. I really like the mask,so far anyway. I have only used it one night. Got it Friday. Its the Sleep Weaver Advanced. So comfortable,I can't believe it.Unfortunately my heated tubing was defective and it shut my machine down about 3:30 this morning. UGH  Was able to get hold of my provider and he said I could use the machine without the heated tubing feature. I sure hope everything works tonight. Only got about 4 hrs sleep last night. 

   Thanks for the welcome.

                  Sheryl

Thank you for the welcome. I've been at it for a couple of months now still learning and trying to go all night with the mask. I have been fighting a cold and that don't help but I have been on the computer learning as much as posable. between that and fighting all this snow in central IL Iv'e been busy.

                                                                         Thanks again

                                                                                Fred

Thank you for welcoming me.  I intend to start spending lots of time in this group.

Cheers,
Adi 

Thank you for the welcome; I'm still learning my way around the site.

Best, Tom

Hi sleepycarol,

I suggest you go to the RLS Foundation home page at www.rls.org, click on Medical & Scientific Info, and click on Publications & Brochures. You can download as many of the publications as you'd like. After you've read the literature, et me know if you have more questions.

Sorry it has taken me so long to reply. We moved into our house the day before Thanksgiving, and then Christmas and New Year's came along.

And if this is a repeat reply, my apologies. I haven't learned how to track my communications on Sleepguide.

Hope to hear from you soon,

Kay

THIS IS THE FIRST TIME I AM GOING THROUGH THE SITE.IT IS GREAT NO OTHER WORDS CAN BE SAID.

I AM 67 AND HAVE BEEN ON  A CPAP  FOR MANY YEARS CAN'T REMEMBER.I STOPPED USING IT BECAUSE OF THE MASK,BUT ALLEN (MY WORKER FROM THE STORE I GET EVERYTHING FROM) BROUGHT A MASK IT IS ONLY ON MY NOSE,THE ONLY PROBLEM DAVID (MY HUSBAND OF 13 YEARS} AND I ARE HAVING IS THE TUBE COMES OUT OF THE MACHINE AND I'M ASLEEP SO I DIDN'T KNOW IT.WHEN IT IS WORKING,I'M ALSEEP BUT DAVID GETS UP AT 1;30AM FOR WORK AND CHECKS ON ME WHEN HE LEAVES AT 3:40AM  AND CALLS ME WHEN HE OPENS THE SHOP.WHEN I DON'T HAVE THE CPAP ON I USE THE REGULAR CANNAEL ON MY FACE AND TAPE IT ON.THAT TOO HAS COME OFF IF I DON'T PUT THE TAPE ON THE RIGHT PLACE OF MY FACE

  BUT AFTER LOOKING THROUGH THIS SITE WHICH IS ENOUGH TO KEEP ME BUSY  FOR A FEW WEEKS OF CONSTANT LOOKING.

  HOPE OUR STORMS ARE GONE SOON I WANT TO START DRIVING SOON,I DON'T DO TOO MUCH DRIVING IN THE SNOW WITH MY TRUCK.

  LIKE I SAID I WISH  I KNEW OF THIS SITE YEARS AGO.

I'M GOING TO GO TO SLEEP NOW BUT AS I SAID IN THE BEGINING THANKS SLEEP GUIDE YOUR GREAT

MAMAJO  (CAROL) MAMAJOLYLYNN2@YAHOO.COM.

      Hi Carol, thanks for welcoming me to the gang. I am married to a C-Pap user, my husband Don started having symptoms in '98 or '99. I would come to bed after reading a book, and he would be snoring so loud, I couldn't go to sleep. So I layed there and listened, he would actually stop breathing, and I would have to shake him awake to take a breath. I hadn't heard of sleep apthnea before, but I knew something was wrong. His doctor had him take the sleeping test, and they said he had it. Then we moved to Fl right after that, and he forgot about bringing it up with our new doctor. We moved back to Ill. after 2 yrs,missing kids, and he had the test over, this time after he took a stress test, and failed it. He had to have 4 way by-pass surgery in '05, and I wonder if he had been on a C-pap before that, if he would have not had to have surgery? Probably tho. He uses the large mask and humiderfier in the winter. So far he does good with it, sometimes not, and takes naps alot. I really just want to read about everyones take on the disease. He did have back surgery lately, and the anesithologist wrote a letter saying we should warn the next doctor about the trouble she had getting the tubes in his throat. Would that be because of the extra flab in his throat? Will he need that throat surgery at sometime? And is there some point in time he would need oxygen, he was a smoker for 30 yrs, but stopped the day he had heart surgery, soon 6 yrs ago? Maybe you know some answers for us, or can send us to a specialist in our area, that would be great info. Hope everyone in the group has a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! Sue L.

Carol,  Thanks for the Welcome.  As a Registered Respriatory Therapist and a user for some 6 years I am pretty familiar with the processes of PAP therapy, but always need to learn more.  I am just recently under the care of an excellent Sleep Medicine Doc locally - She has "upgraded" my therapy, retested me with a new sleep study and I have felt better than ever. I seem to be somewhat complex and involved, but who isn't?  Got some mild Complex Central Apnea w/ RL and some sensitivity of BiLevel pressure changes.......