My sleep apnea dr. told me to come in after I had lost 60 lb. Ineed to lose 150! I am having lapband surgery July 3, so I will continue as I am until 60 pounds. He did not say I would have to do another sleep study. Ned

Thanks for the info. It realy helped. I have been on the CPAP for 1 week and I am amazed at what it si doin. I had to go in the hospital for a different problem Friday and spent the night for observation. I had my machine with me. My Oxygen level never went below 94%. What really amazed me was my heart rate had gone down noticeably. They had told me that might happen at the sleep center but I was still amazed! I am feeling much better during the day!

I too am a new user less then a month. Pressure of 18 ramped up from 6 and a mouth breather. I had to get a device from the CPAP therapist to keep my month shut. Your insurance should cover it. With that I cam sleep all night with the CPAP. A couple of times I have woke up gagging and took off the CPAP but kept the mouth device on and my husband said I did not snore! However I love my CPAP most of the time. I sleep all night long now without getting up to go to the bath room. The only problem I am having is my feet swelling up and waking up with some swelling!! I am going to try to drink lots of water today and see if that helps. Oh and I was told that pillow mask would not work with a pressure of 18. It could be too much pressure going right into the nose. I do not know if this is true or not but that is what my Therapist said. I use a mask that fits only over my nose. Barbara

I did get the cpap last week because i have obstructed sleep apnea and ive been using it, but i wake up in the midle of the night and get scared (claustriphobic using the nasal botton) so i take it off. there was one night i did keep it on all night and that was during the cpap sleep study and the tech saw that it was hard for me to get back to sleep so she turned it down and said that i was in REM in a matter of seconds, but the presure had to be up to 18, what does that mean?? thank you for all your advice Paula

Just letting you all know, i'm an RT and can answer some questions regarding sleep apnea and cpap/bipap. If i don't know the answer i'm sure i know somebody who does.