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Yes, that will affect the power drain and the demand for power.

I think everyone has a bad night now and again. There is always a bad night when nothing appears to go right, you fight to stop leaks, you wake up in the morning with the mask half off or you just have that tiny annoying leak that will not stop and you can't get to sleep for it. Then there is just the odd night when it all goes to pot! Sometimes there is no real reason for it, but the next night everything is fine again. I get very few of these but when I do get one I just get annoyed with myself and and usually the mask.

Use a power inverter unless you want to go off grid. I just read yesterday that the center pin has to have 3vDc, but do not take my word for it. I have not tested this and the ResMed machine will only run if the voltage is very close to its tolerance. I think they are being a bit naughty by putting a plug like that on the end of the power supply, 1 - you can't buy one. 2 - very close tolerances make the machine stop if not right. I don't know why they chose 24vDC but it is very annoying. I had the choice of three machines, and I chose the Airsense10Autoset not thinking about the voltage. Now I want to go off grid and I have the same problem. It would not be hard to build a power supply, even if it has a strange plug, but then how do you get a plug to fit it. A 12vDC to 24vDC power supply is not hard to build, but they have added in the strange power connector just to foil us and make us buy their overpriced 12vDC to 24vDC adapter. The machine is very good, why did they spoil things by making it 24vDC? If anyone finds an answer, please let me know as I for one am not willing to pay the price for one in the UK. £110 is just for to much. Time the Chinese reverse engineered them :-)

You can also get power packs a lot cheaper on Amazon and eBay that does the same job but at a lot less cost. There is also a supplier sells a power pack battery that they say will last two nights with a ResMed machine, but of course that will also depend on the demand for power.

No, I use Sleepyhead. https://sleepyhead.jedimark.net/?TestingVersions It can tell you to much at times though, but you can turn off what you do not need displayed.

It is generally accepted that anything below 5 is good. The lower the number the better, however, in a pole done just lately, people with a very low number said they did not feel so good with 1 or less than they did when they had a number of 2 or 3, which I though in itself very interesting. If you get it down to 5 or below you are doing very well.

A cpap machine will only work for you if it is properly adjusted for you. Most patients only see a sleep doctor every year at best, this is not good for having a machine tweeked for best results. The Airsense10Autoset is one of the best machines around, but even its performance will be down if it is not tweeked. What I mean by this is that some sleep doctors will give a setting of 4 to 15. This is not very acceptable, if a pressure of 8 will clear most of you apneas, this is close to the low pressure your machine should be set to, leaving the machine to rise in pressure to deal with the others. A machine set to 4 to 15 is just a doctor being lazy and not doing his work properly. If you were to download data you would see what pressure the machine get up to and when and how often you are having apneas. This is what your sleep doctor should be doing and setting the machine to cope with most of you events, the machine will handle most of the events outside this pressure setting. This way the machine does not have to rise so far in pressure to cope with every event and disturb the patient also.

I trust it didn't work then? What sort of implant was it?

ModestCoffeeIbis7490 WROTE:"> I am new to this Forum from Scottsdale, AZ. My question is sometimes I wake up at 1 am finding myself confused and can't control my thoughts I have to keep moving around like a Panic Attack which leads me to driving around with my wife for about an hour to calm down. I am being told it is my Sleep Apnea causing this by my ENT. Anybody else going thru this same situation? I feel it is something more than Sleep Apnea problems. I do not see anybody else discussing my situation that is why I wonder if there is something else that could be the problem. Just had complete blood work done plus a Bone Marrow Biopsy with all positive results.> "

I don't know what is going on with your doctors, the Sleep Care Doctor should be addressing this or you own GP. If this has just started around the time of you developing Sleep Apnea, it might be related or might not be. However, what I would do is buy yourself an Oxygen Saturation Monitor, one that can store or print out your o2 levels and see what that shows during the night and when you wake up in a panic. It may be just anxiety due to having a make and air being pushed into your lungs, but it may be due to a low level of oxygen. Your sleep clinic might be able to loan you one, but they tend to be large machines on stands. These are sold on Amazon and eBay for around £30 $40 or slightly higher and as long as they store the readings or print it out you can then take that along to the Sleep Doctor. Your readings should stay in the 90s, hopefully mid 90s, though some people will drop just into the 80s if they have lung problems etc, but it should go no lower when asleep. It will be lower than through the day. You want an o2 monitor that will record your levels during the night either all the time or at random.

If your o2 levels are ok, you will need to look for another cause for your panic attacks. It is not normal for people to have panic attacks when using cpap for a while, though at the start of using the machine one can wake up in a panic. However, after the brain works out you are attached to a cpap machine and the mask is removed, most people settle down very quickly. After a while of use very few people panic when waking up, they just get used to it. I have read just lately of people with low o2 levels waking in a bit of a panic, but so far it appears to be central apneas that have been causing o2 starvation. If you find you are low in o2 (Oxygen) during the night, you might need a more complicated machine, or just your settings adjusted, however, you might need another sleep study to find out what is going on, this will need to be at a Sleep Clinic in a hospital and not a study done at home.

If you find your o2 levels are ok, then you will have to look for another cause.

All the air goes out the mask vent, however, you do need to clean the hose every now and again. Bacteria does build up after a while and so does mold. You should also check the vents in the mask for mold, if you study the vents you may see a dark (black) edge to the mask vents, this is most likely to be a mold, nice warm and damp is perfect for mold growth. So humidifiers, hoses, masks and any other things like headgear should be washed with soap and water. The type you do dishes in is fine. There is a pink slime that can grow in humidifiers, this is an airborne bacteria, it can also appear in showers and areas where warn damp areas. It can be removed by the same treatment with soapy warm water. However, a bit of elbow grease is required to get rid of this pink slime, a little bit of scrubbing into the corners. It will come back quite quickly, but I have put up with it for more years than I care to admit, it has not done me any harm, but I like to keep it under control. A wipe that does not have alcohol in them is fine for wiping down the mask each night and for keeping the seal clean.