Summary – Full night sleep study using ALICE 3 equipment by Respironics. Level of apnoea = 85.1/h Level of desaturation = 86.7 Sleep efficiency = 45.9% Number of Micro-arousals = 85.3/h Basal saturation (blood oximetry) = 92.0% Basal desaturation (blood oximetry) = 49.0% Average Apnoea duration = 23.5 seconds Longest apnoea duration = 58.0 seconds [...]

I was never told after the first one how many times I stoped breathing the tech just said I will probably have to come back to use a cpap machine. It must not be too bad someone else I know told me they told him. Why do they use a cpap machine and watch you [...]

Well, the big day finally came. My machine arrived. I went to my medical Supplier Brown’s Advanced Care to pick it up. The machine was a Respironics Series M Auto Bipap machine. The technician asked me if I had problems with the continuous pressure of cpap. I certainly did and had to fight the panic. [...]

My journey began almost a year ago now. I have been just about chronically sick for the last 5 years. I would most always get a sinus infection that seemed to last weeks and it usually migrated to my chest for classic bronchitis. I would be sick for weeks. 2 or 3 trips to the [...]