I'm glad to have found this community. I am now starting my CPAP journey (was in denial for a few years).
Let me begin by saying that 4 years ago, I went to a sleep clinic in Montreal and performed a sleep study. The results (link in signature) which I do not mind sharing say that I had an AHI of 37.1 but I do recall that night being a particularly bad night as I was not used to the uncomfortable mask given to me by the clinic.
Anyway, now it seems that my snoring has gotten way worse to the point where my partner can't sleep in the same room as me anymore. I would like to finally resolve this issue but I want to avoid DMEs entirely, they seem shady and are inflated prices from what I see. For example, my nearest DME is offering the DreamStation for around $1700 while I can find it for $699 online at places like cheapcpapsupplies (link in signature). or 795$ on amazon (link in signature).
My plan is to purchase this machine and a starting mask, I was thinking the Resmed Air Touch N20 (link in signature). This brings up a question. Are all masks compatible with all machines? Is there as standard in tube sizes etc? Will this mask work with my DreamStation?
Once I get my machine, I plan to follow the advise in the beginners guide and set my machine on auto within the recommended settings and monitoring it from there and adjusting as I look at the data to achieve a lower AHI.
Before I go ahead and dish out almost $1,000 to start this whole process, I wanted to verify with the community to make sure that there are no red flags in how I am going about this since I am not going to be speaking to a doctor.
Does what I am doing make sense?
Thank you!
P.S:
Due to this being my first post, I had to include all the links in my signature instead.
P.S2: Looks like I can't update my signature here :/
More than happy to DM links to anyone who's curious.