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There is also the autopap

I've been hooked up to a mask for OSA for
10 years now and am one of those that try
to tell people about it.

The best pap I found is the autopap,
which adjusts pressure throughout the
night because your pressure changes
during the night. The brand I use
(ResMed) compares each breath with your
average of the last 100 seconds of
breathing and adjusts up or down, based
on what is needed (increasing pressure),
or what is possible (decreasing pressure).
Other brands may use different
approaches, but all basically do the same
function of delivering various pressure
levels.

How important is it? With OSA you
basically stop breathing during the night.
In my sleep study I stopped breathing 55
times an hour on average and the longest
period of not breathing was 45 seconds.
Try breathing out and then not breathing
in for 45 seconds.

Pap treatment is basically an air stint that
keeps your airway open so you can
breathe. Non bi-pap devices normally
range in pressure from 4 to 20 and the
average person would want a pressure of
at least 5 when they first put the mask on.

My original pressure was 8 and my
autopap now has me in the 10 - 11 range.
When I had surgery for prostate cancer my
pressure averaged 16 on the day of
surgery (I even used it in the recovery
room), dropped to 13 the next day and
then went back to normal.

This past February my sister had a cervical
discectomy (not a surgery needing heavy
anesthetics) and the nurse on the floor
refused to let her husband put her cpap
mask on her and she died. The cause of
her death was lack of oxygen to the brain.

If you snore and are halfway tired in the
morning then you need to get checked.
Acid reflux during the night? Get
checked.

Not all people who snore have OSA. If you
have a bed partner then you can talk to
your doctor about an autopap simply to
stop the snoring. the snoring might not
impact your health, but it is impacting the
health of whoever is sharing your bed.

You can do a lot of research at
talkaboutsleep.org - it covers everything
from the basics to the more complicated.
There are also links to various brands and
some of them have significant information
at the patient and clinical levels. It also
has links on the message board for the
heating hose from Australia.

If anyone has any questions at the patient
level they can email me a oldhh@mac.com

Posted by: Ken_z   Posted on: 10/09/08 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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