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<blockquote data-quote="BillM" data-source="post: 3967504" data-attributes="member: 45785"><p>What ever you get is probably better than nothing, but the best thing is now VPAP. Variable Positive Airway Pressure. If you aren't breathing like you should, it ramps up to where you should be, and holds it as long as you need it. RESMED Airsense 10 is what I have, and mine is old and beat to crap, and I need it to get replaced, but it's still better than 90 events an hour. If I can manage to sleep in my side, like I did for the little bit of sleep I got, I get .4 events per hour. If I spend more time on my back, it's between 2.4 and 1.9 events per hour most nights. SWMBO is using a slightly newer one herself. Last test they did on her, before they gave her back her oxygen, she was getting 125 events per hours. Afterwards, it rose to 190 per hour. But they were using an older RESMED model that we trashed nearly a decade ago. I started on the CPAP at age 57. I was a new teacher, and it destroyed my teaching career, completely. Couldn't write a lesson plan, couldn't follow one if someone else wrote it for me. Though my kids did get better at math, reading, writing and English. Wasn't enough, though. Results aren't as important as dotting all the i's and crossing all the t's. And I get it, I helped throw kids out of the Air Force who couldn't or wouldn't do the job. Didn't get my results until after the end of the year, or the first CPAP machine until September. Made a huge difference! For SWMBO, she needs supplemental oxygen as well as the CPAP. With it, she gets about 2 events per hour and pulsox about 97-98. Goes to 10 or so without oxy, but still better than 88 pulsox. We got her tested the first time because I woke up one night, and she wasn't breathing. I started counting seconds, and two minutes later she still hadn't taken a breath. So I shook her, and woke her up. She cussed me for the next 30 minute. She said she was almost to the light and I made her come back. Had to, the idea of trying to raise our kids by myself terrified me!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BillM, post: 3967504, member: 45785"] What ever you get is probably better than nothing, but the best thing is now VPAP. Variable Positive Airway Pressure. If you aren't breathing like you should, it ramps up to where you should be, and holds it as long as you need it. RESMED Airsense 10 is what I have, and mine is old and beat to crap, and I need it to get replaced, but it's still better than 90 events an hour. If I can manage to sleep in my side, like I did for the little bit of sleep I got, I get .4 events per hour. If I spend more time on my back, it's between 2.4 and 1.9 events per hour most nights. SWMBO is using a slightly newer one herself. Last test they did on her, before they gave her back her oxygen, she was getting 125 events per hours. Afterwards, it rose to 190 per hour. But they were using an older RESMED model that we trashed nearly a decade ago. I started on the CPAP at age 57. I was a new teacher, and it destroyed my teaching career, completely. Couldn't write a lesson plan, couldn't follow one if someone else wrote it for me. Though my kids did get better at math, reading, writing and English. Wasn't enough, though. Results aren't as important as dotting all the i's and crossing all the t's. And I get it, I helped throw kids out of the Air Force who couldn't or wouldn't do the job. Didn't get my results until after the end of the year, or the first CPAP machine until September. Made a huge difference! For SWMBO, she needs supplemental oxygen as well as the CPAP. With it, she gets about 2 events per hour and pulsox about 97-98. Goes to 10 or so without oxy, but still better than 88 pulsox. We got her tested the first time because I woke up one night, and she wasn't breathing. I started counting seconds, and two minutes later she still hadn't taken a breath. So I shook her, and woke her up. She cussed me for the next 30 minute. She said she was almost to the light and I made her come back. Had to, the idea of trying to raise our kids by myself terrified me! [/QUOTE]
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