The new biPAP/auto is working — although I had trouble getting to sleep — and that is related to both the new machine and the bad nights I’ve had the last few nights — I feel better today.
What with all the controls, etc. I had to deal with last night, I forgot to set my alarm clock which wasn’t a good thing as I have some teacher training to go to this morning.
However, I woke up at 6:00 anyway, so that’s good.
Much less congested, but I am comparing the new heated humidifer to going without one — it was too much trouble to deal with using the old machine and I was never convinced that humidifer worked well. I got a little rain out (I’ll explain) at the beginning of the night, but no problems with the humidifer after that.
I’m really curious about the readings, but I guess I’m going to have to wait to get the smart card read for at least a few days.
As to the humidifer — one of the problems with using a PAP, is that it drys out the air. The solution is to use a humidifer. The first generation of humidifer were pass over and while that helped, the PAP air was still too dry. A real problem for those of us with allergies and other breathing issues. So they came out with heated humidifer’s. The problem with them is rain out — by the time the air got to the patient, condesation happened, and you would get water in your face. We call that rain out. Not enough heat, and the air is too dry. I also get one other problem with non-humidied air, I get literatly chilled. Fortunately I can grab a dog or two to warm up, but it wakes me up, again defeating the purpose of the CPAP.
Without humidification, I wake up with a headache, very congested and extremely dry. It is no fun.
I don’t feel 100% rested, and probably won’t until a few days have passed, adjusting to new equipment is always hard.