05-10-2023, 04:08 PM
WORST SLEEP APNEA IN RECORDED HISTORY, plzzz help!
ALlow me to explain this stupid thing of mine:
Basically last 4 to 5 years I've tried again and again for a month per year or less try CPAP aka APAP Resmed 10 machine. Prior to this in 2014 I had 3 minimally invasive procedures performed at the snoring center in a big TX city. Those procedures were RF Ablation (Once), Tongue Reduction Procedure (6 Times), and Pillar Procedure (Once), labeled the latest greatest thing at the time because you'd put palatal implants and somehow stop the AHI levels from rising. Admittedly, for the first night in 10 years or so I had gotten dreams which I was just amazed by, which meant my memory had been suffering for so long and I'd totally forgotten to consider this sleep apnea thing a super bad obstacle. Also, at the time I was studying for this Grad school test called GMAT, for which score i was unable to improve it 9 times in a row. Of course, after this surgery, it shot up & got into good business school.
But the effects weren't for long, all b/c I didn't want to wear the stupid mask. Come to find out couple years later my AHI had gotten just as bad as i had seen before with my $10,000 of procedures apparently in the trash bin. Fast forward to 2021 when i had my sleep study done and it again showed AHI of 83.5. On and off since 2017 I'd been trying the CPAP machine but always noticed my mask would be on the floor within an hour, but always NON-WILLINGLY. This time I wanted to document that and show it to you experts on OSCAR software-related graphs for last 2 months that I've again started doing and painfully results are similar. So, for one thing I'm doing for sure is getting a BIPAP machine as my ENT has authorized it but before I do that I'd like to note the following: I've already tried few cpap masks previously and failed b/c I'm a mouth breather, and these are ResMed Airfit N20 and ResMed Mirage FX Nasal. The one i'm currently wearing but that's also leaking miserably now is the ResMed AirFit F20 Full Face mask, but I've attached the leak pics from myAIR for you guys to see that.
So the Question is, before I change my BIPAP machine, i'd like to see what you guys see in the analysis other than mask is leaking like crazy and if there's any possible APAP machine issues cuz I've tried this for 3 years in a row and don't get more than 1 damn hour of sleep, I'm hoping this will immediately be resolved due to EPR factor of more than 3? Any BIpap users here that can give feedback as well as the smart ppl in this forum, I'd appreciate it. Honestly, once I get back to work with normal insurance I'll definitely get the Inspire Implant, but in some cases I've read even that may not fully work out and BiPaP / Cpap maybe needed, or for now at least I can get best relief via BIPAP. Thoughts??
ps First time poster
Basically last 4 to 5 years I've tried again and again for a month per year or less try CPAP aka APAP Resmed 10 machine. Prior to this in 2014 I had 3 minimally invasive procedures performed at the snoring center in a big TX city. Those procedures were RF Ablation (Once), Tongue Reduction Procedure (6 Times), and Pillar Procedure (Once), labeled the latest greatest thing at the time because you'd put palatal implants and somehow stop the AHI levels from rising. Admittedly, for the first night in 10 years or so I had gotten dreams which I was just amazed by, which meant my memory had been suffering for so long and I'd totally forgotten to consider this sleep apnea thing a super bad obstacle. Also, at the time I was studying for this Grad school test called GMAT, for which score i was unable to improve it 9 times in a row. Of course, after this surgery, it shot up & got into good business school.
But the effects weren't for long, all b/c I didn't want to wear the stupid mask. Come to find out couple years later my AHI had gotten just as bad as i had seen before with my $10,000 of procedures apparently in the trash bin. Fast forward to 2021 when i had my sleep study done and it again showed AHI of 83.5. On and off since 2017 I'd been trying the CPAP machine but always noticed my mask would be on the floor within an hour, but always NON-WILLINGLY. This time I wanted to document that and show it to you experts on OSCAR software-related graphs for last 2 months that I've again started doing and painfully results are similar. So, for one thing I'm doing for sure is getting a BIPAP machine as my ENT has authorized it but before I do that I'd like to note the following: I've already tried few cpap masks previously and failed b/c I'm a mouth breather, and these are ResMed Airfit N20 and ResMed Mirage FX Nasal. The one i'm currently wearing but that's also leaking miserably now is the ResMed AirFit F20 Full Face mask, but I've attached the leak pics from myAIR for you guys to see that.
So the Question is, before I change my BIPAP machine, i'd like to see what you guys see in the analysis other than mask is leaking like crazy and if there's any possible APAP machine issues cuz I've tried this for 3 years in a row and don't get more than 1 damn hour of sleep, I'm hoping this will immediately be resolved due to EPR factor of more than 3? Any BIpap users here that can give feedback as well as the smart ppl in this forum, I'd appreciate it. Honestly, once I get back to work with normal insurance I'll definitely get the Inspire Implant, but in some cases I've read even that may not fully work out and BiPaP / Cpap maybe needed, or for now at least I can get best relief via BIPAP. Thoughts??
ps First time poster
