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Hi All, I am a 69 year old male and I started my CPAP 'therapy' on 22nd Jan and I am amazed with the results. The machine is a Resmed S9 Escape set at 10cm H2o with a 30min ramp from 4cm H2O with a Resmed Mirage FX (medium) face mask.
On the first night I managed 6hr 20min in two sessions one 2hr 51min and second 3hrs 27mins with about a 30min break in the middle since then I have used it for a total of 138hrs 46mins giving an average nightly use of 8hr 19mins, longest was 9hrs 53mins. Most nights I do not wake, whereas before, my apnoeas woke me at least once or twice a night. Needless to say my wife is also not being disturbed by my snoring and apnoeas and is having good quality sleep for the first time in years.
Almost immediately I started to feel 'more alive' when I woke up, I just wish I had gone to the Dr's sooner. My apnoeas were moderate 27.7 per hour, my wife says I now do not make a noise and certainly do not stop breathing or have the 'fit' like symptoms.
The only problems I have are a dry throat, congested nose, sneezing when I wake up and due to us sleeping with the window open I find the air I am breathing very uncomfortable due to it being so cold. I have an appointment with the sleep clinic a week on Tuesday and hopefully they will supply me with a Resmed H5I heated humidifier, I understand from my GP that this should help. Sometime the mask leaks and wakes me but after a readjust I go to sleep again.
It is just a pity the S9 Escape only stores the usage data on the memory card, as I would have been very interested in the data the more expensive models store.
So although I have only been using it for 17 days I would recommend anyone who 'thinks' they may have sleep apnoea to go and get it checked out.
I will post after I get or don't a humidifier.
On the first night I managed 6hr 20min in two sessions one 2hr 51min and second 3hrs 27mins with about a 30min break in the middle since then I have used it for a total of 138hrs 46mins giving an average nightly use of 8hr 19mins, longest was 9hrs 53mins. Most nights I do not wake, whereas before, my apnoeas woke me at least once or twice a night. Needless to say my wife is also not being disturbed by my snoring and apnoeas and is having good quality sleep for the first time in years.
Almost immediately I started to feel 'more alive' when I woke up, I just wish I had gone to the Dr's sooner. My apnoeas were moderate 27.7 per hour, my wife says I now do not make a noise and certainly do not stop breathing or have the 'fit' like symptoms.
The only problems I have are a dry throat, congested nose, sneezing when I wake up and due to us sleeping with the window open I find the air I am breathing very uncomfortable due to it being so cold. I have an appointment with the sleep clinic a week on Tuesday and hopefully they will supply me with a Resmed H5I heated humidifier, I understand from my GP that this should help. Sometime the mask leaks and wakes me but after a readjust I go to sleep again.
It is just a pity the S9 Escape only stores the usage data on the memory card, as I would have been very interested in the data the more expensive models store.
So although I have only been using it for 17 days I would recommend anyone who 'thinks' they may have sleep apnoea to go and get it checked out.
I will post after I get or don't a humidifier.
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