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Hi TF-- I have never doubted your knowledge. I just doubt that you are posting it in the right place. As far as we know --thousands of people could have died by just stopping breathing because they have OSA. Such deaths are not always put down on death certificates as a result of OSA--so NO one can say that nobody has died from lack of proper breathing. I'm glad you had your little talk with a Dr who happened to agree with you. She was speaking to someone who obviously knew more about OSA than she did. Not all Drs are informed about OSA--which is the reason why so many of us go undiagnosed for years. She of course was one who is capable of handling her own care--but so many others aren't. Yes its a crime (Or at least a pity) that there are not more dedicated knowledgeable people in charge of OSA clinics in the UK. But that changes nothing. Some people should not handle their own care unless they are helped by someone knowledgeable who can test them and keep track of how things are going. This is a simple subject and it has a simple answer--tech stuff should have its own place in the forum for the sake of those who find it has to be done on their own. I don't agree to changing info on the CPAP machine without proper testing. (There will always be some who will be too impatient to wait the time it takes to get the tests or information.) But if its as you say "no one dies"--then why bother with a CPAP at all--they are not exactly easy to deal with. And do not even help some people at all. If you are correct why bother with DR's, Nurses, Clinics or Forums at all. Perhaps the Clinics should just not bother with the testing (which some people see as un-needed)--in which case the Clinics can just hand anyone and everyone a CPAP or APAP and say --Go ask TF how to use it. Sorry--I still say the tech stuff belongs in its own place on the forum. It will be worth moving it if it saves just ONE life. xx Berneta PS--I don't care about that Red Face thing at all--I am not easily bruised..
Hi TF-- I have never doubted your knowledge. I just doubt that you are posting it in the right place. As far as we know --thousands of people could have died by just stopping breathing because they have OSA. Such deaths are not always put down on death certificates as a result of OSA--so NO one can say that nobody has died from lack of proper breathing. I'm glad you had your little talk with a Dr who happened to agree with you. She was speaking to someone who obviously knew more about OSA than she did. Not all Drs are informed about OSA--which is the reason why so many of us go undiagnosed for years. She of course was one who is capable of handling her own care--but so many others aren't. Yes its a crime (Or at least a pity) that there are not more dedicated knowledgeable people in charge of OSA clinics in the UK. But that changes nothing. Some people should not handle their own care unless they are helped by someone knowledgeable who can test them and keep track of how things are going. This is a simple subject and it has a simple answer--tech stuff should have its own place in the forum for the sake of those who find it has to be done on their own. I don't agree to changing info on the CPAP machine without proper testing. (There will always be some who will be too impatient to wait the time it takes to get the tests or information.) But if its as you say "no one dies"--then why bother with a CPAP at all--they are not exactly easy to deal with. And do not even help some people at all. If you are correct why bother with DR's, Nurses, Clinics or Forums at all. Perhaps the Clinics should just not bother with the testing (which some people see as un-needed)--in which case the Clinics can just hand anyone and everyone a CPAP or APAP and say --Go ask TF how to use it. Sorry--I still say the tech stuff belongs in its own place on the forum. It will be worth moving it if it saves just ONE life. xx Berneta PS--I don't care about that Red Face thing at all--I am not easily bruised..
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